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United States Exploring Expedition under Lieut. Wilkes; the 
Ornithology of the Japan Expedition; the Ornithology of Gil 
liss’s Astronomical Expeditjon to Chili; and the portions of the 
Ornithology of the Pacific Railroad Explorations and Surveys re- 
E =e to the oa sherseaigs ~~ the Wading Birds. 
: $ communications all his contributions to science are dis- 
§ Seetshed by their car efal research, their thoroughness, and their 
unfailing accuracy—an opatt that was ever above reproach, 
} __ .and as it seems even beyond cri 
Nor was it alone as a closet aapadbit that Mr. Cassin was dis- 
tinguished. He was also an ardent lover of nature, and a close 
observer of living birds, both in their wild wood haunts, a and under 
birds; and it was to aid from his unequalled knowledge that w 
have locked forward for the correct classification of the pines 
of our agents But alas, that once ever open volume, so abound- 
tiered from: hint: 
pathizing and congenial friend,—his dea e and 
Vigor of life, and in the very midst of his transcendent usefulness, 
can onl fi be received as one of those inscrutable ae 
me while we must accept them in humble faith, we cannot 
epl ore, 
ata THE EODORE pile anit! able Se ae Theodore 
swic 
‘eb, Ist, 
827. He then 
a with Barger Econ at. N ew eae wick, New Jersey, = ae 
Sreat excellence of cha aracter, positive in his opinions, "frank 
» ads nd bra f high order in 1860; anda Treatise by 
= on the Differen —— fal and Int tegral Calculus eee _ 
