CHILDHOOD AND YOUTH 49 
The thrush which you have described, and which you kindly 
offer to send me, may be new, but perhaps you are not acquainted 
with the Turdus Nanus of my work, to which it appears, if not the 
same, probably a new variety? Nous verrons. 
Please to collect all the Shrews, Mice, (field or wand’ rats, bats, 
Squirrels, etc., and put them in a jar in common Rum, not whiskey, 
brandy or alcohol, All of the latter spirits are sure to injure the 
subjects. 
Believe me, my Dear Sir. : : 
ae . Your friend and servant, 
Joun J. Aupuson. 
Under date of January 23, 1841, Baird notes that he 
attended a meeting of the Periodical Library Association 
of Carlisle, a society of about 33 members. ‘Some of 
the works subscribed for were Loudon’s Magazine of 
Natural History, Silliman’s Journal, the London Athe- 
nzeum, the four English Reviews, Blackwood’s Magazine, 
Dublin University Magazine, the Boston Medical Journal, 
the American Medical Magazine, Buel’s Cultivator, the 
Farmers Cabinet, the North American Review, the 
Journal of The Franklin Institute, Hunt’s Merchants’ 
Magazine, the Magazine of Horticulture and Botany, the 
Musical Visitor, the Metropolitan and Parley’s Magazine. 
Each member subscribes three dollars.” 
In how many of our towns of five thousand inhabitants 
to-day could a society of this sort be found which had 
made such a selection of standard periodicals? 
He concludes the record of the month by mentioning 
that he had walked eighty-three miles during January. 
On his eighteenth birthday, February 3, 1841, he 
notes that his height in the morning was six feet, but in 
the evening, after walking ten miles carrying a forty-pound 
pack, it was only five feet eleven and a quarter inches. 
About this time, probably owing to the pressure of 
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