200 ORNITHOLOGISTS, PAST AND PRESENT. 
Gesner is not a rare one, as there are about ten different 
editions. A little later we are glad to name Carolus Lin- 
nus, followed by his editor, Johann Friedrich Gmelin, at 
different times in his life; and by his contemporary Philip 
Ludwig Statuis Miiller. About the same period one of the 
first odlogists, Jacobus Klein, author of Stemmata Avium 
and Historia Avium Prodromus, presents himself to our 
researches. In England, ornithological science commenced 
early, if we admit the reports of circumnavigators and other 
travellers, such as Captain James Cook, Forster,* etc. 
Among the old British authors represented in the collection 
it would be well to call attention to the two Macgillivrays, 
Thomas Bewick, John Johnston, Thomas Pennant, and John 
Ray, each celebrated for large folios, the titles of which are 
found in President Elliott Coues’ remarkable work en- 
titled: Instalments of Ornithological Bibliography, though 
his portrait is wanting in my gallery! William Yarrell 
and his editors, Howard Saunders and Alfred Newton, 
are represented in different shapes. As we speak of 
England, we will name also such stars of to-day as Philip 
Lutley Sclater, R. Bowdler Sharpe, H. E. Dresser, Rev. H. 
A. Macpherson, Colonel H. H. Godwin-Austen, and Ward- 
law Ramsay. 
In returning to the olden times we must not forget to 
mention such famous authorities in France as Georges Louis 
Leclerc Buffon, Pierre Bélon, Georges Léopold Chrétien 
Frédéric Dagobert Cuvier, Bernard Germain Etienne Lacé- 
péde, Jacquin, and L. P. Vieillot. The renowned inventor 
of the thermometer, René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur, 
was an industrious lover of nature, who endeavored to help 
his poorer brethren, such as bakers, to profit of nature’s 
%* The writer of this paper does not give Forster’s full name, and 
therefore we are left in doubt whether he means Johann Reinhold 
Forster (1729-98) or his son, Johann Georg Adam Forster (1754-94), 
both of whom accompanied Captain Cook on his second voyage in 
1772.—-E, C, 
