ORNITHOLOGISTS, PAST AND PRESENT. 
holidays in making excursions and voyages, and who give 
the consommé of their impressions as a new fruit of their 
leisure. Of such are the Germans, Dr. Rudolf Blasius and Dr. 
Bolle, and a great many rich English amateurs, as Henry 
Seebohm, Scott Wilson, Aplin, and others. There are only 
a few whom birds nourish without their being dealers in 
objects of natural history. I will speak of the custodes or 
directors of ornithological cabinets, as Prof. William Blasius 
of Brunswick, who is also professor of botany; Prof. 
Nehring of Berlin, also teacher at the agricultural school of 
the university; C. Hart Merriam at Washington; Pycraft at 
Oxford, and others. The proprietors of odlogical and 
ornithological museums, as Count Dzieduszycki, the late 
Lord Tweeddale, Baron Rothschild, the late Mynher Van 
Wickevoort-Crommelin, are of course in a more suitable 
position. 
As ornithology comprises all the different degrees between 
a schoolboy of twelve years of age, collecting the birds eggs 
of his home, and the learned old professor of anatomy and 
physiology in an ancient and celebrated university, my 
album contains types of every different kind, the single word 
“ Birds” uniting all. 
Science unites the inhabitants of palaces and huts; the elder 
Naumann, a poor peasant at Diebzigk, claims with the same 
right the name of ornithologist as the mighty Crown Prince 
of Austria or the Prince of Canino. Likewise within the 
limits of this science what a difference there is between such 
universal minds as Louis Agassiz, Alexander Von Hum- 
boldt, or Peter S, Pallas, and the legion of local faunists. Of 
the latter we name only a few: Count Alléon, for the 
shore of the Bosphorus; Bailly for the wonderful valleys of 
Savoy; Bonizzi and Bonomi for hot Italian spots; Borg- 
greve for the harsh climate of northern Germany; Crespon, 
Gadeau, Lescuyer, Olphe-Galliard, Jaubert for les rich- 
esses du midi de la France; the Dubois family for Belgium ; 
Dr. Victor Fatio for Switzerland, Keller and Finger for 
