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The Hawkeys Ornithologist and Ooi.ogist. 



Hickman, Ky., Jan. 12,1888. 

 Dear Sirs:— The Hawkeye O. and 

 0. at hand some time ago. I am 

 very much pleased with it. It ex- 

 ceeds my expectations. 



Your Friend, 

 L. O. Pindar. 



NohthG-RANVILLTS, N. Y., Jan. 8, 188b 

 W. & M., 

 Gents:— Paper came to hand a few- 

 days ago, also extra copies for which 

 accept thanks It is neat in ap- 

 pearance and looks, and should 

 think it ought to have a good support 

 from the ornithological world. 

 Yours truly, 



H. W. Davis. 



Toronto, Canada, Jan. 0, 1888. 

 Messrs. Webster & Mead, 



Dear Sirs:— I duly received a copy of 

 your new journal, and wish it great 

 success, please enter my name as a 

 subscriber T have been an enthu- 

 siastic ornithologist for twelve years; 

 most of the time beina: devoted' to 

 British Ornithology. I have only 

 been in this country two years. I 

 was a member of the Yorkshire (Eng- 

 land) Naturalist Society and the 



Leeds Naturalist's Club During 



the past four years I have been at 

 much expense in employing my own 

 private collectors in Iceland, Hol- 

 land, Turkey, in Asia and other 



places My collection of eggs, 



consisting of some 15,000 specimens, 

 is almost as complete as I "an make 



it 



Yours Truly, 



W. Raine. 



A monument is to be erected in 

 Lincoln Park, Chicago, to the 

 great naturalist, Linnieus. This 

 monument will be modeled after 

 the one erected to him in Stockholm, 

 by King Charles XIV. 



GEOLOGY % lT3II]EipLO<2Y. 



For the Hawkeye 0. and O. 



THE SCIENTIST. 



BY H. F. HEGNER, DECORAH, IOWA. 



For the scientist all the works of 

 nature are beautiful or sublime. 

 First they come to him clothed in the 

 cerements of finitude, and he loves to 

 study them in this form, again, he 

 studies them in the infinite and 

 boundless expanse of the firmament 

 above, and the sublimity of the laws 

 that g-uide the planets through the 

 realms of space is fully realized by 

 him. 



Trie works of nature are like a 

 mirror of truth for the glory of the 

 scientist; and in this mirror is im- 

 aged the unity and beauty of God's 

 creation. He sees the image; tis 

 more than an image, a blessed real- 

 ity, dear to him in that he cannot 

 comprehend, though he may appre- 

 hend it. 



Nature is the mother of the Uni- 

 verse, and he loves her. That deli- 

 cacy of expression which has beauti- 

 fied her work, even from' the begin- 

 ning builded on the stepping stones 

 of animalization. has reached its ideal 

 genius in the rational mind of man. 

 Beauty decorates all objects, and 

 man is the finishing touch, destined 

 to turn the works of nature to glory, 

 and finish them with a grandeur 

 that will defy the misty fingers of 

 time. 



The mind of the. scientist is one 

 that cannot be idle. Natural phenome- 

 na constantly furnish food for study, 

 and his observing and investigating 

 spirit always finds something new 

 to enrich the mind — the hills are his 

 friends, the flowers and trees his 

 companions, the merry songsters of 

 the woodland his glory. 



The bird he knows even by its song, 

 and he marks its flight with an in- 



