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  The 
  aim 
  is 
  to 
  

   give 
  a 
  complete 
  history 
  of 
  all 
  the 
  songbirds, 
  flycatchers, 
  hum- 
  

   mingbirds, 
  swifts, 
  goatsuckers, 
  woodpeckers, 
  kingfishers, 
  trogons, 
  

   cuckoos, 
  and 
  parrots 
  of 
  North 
  America. 
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  text 
  is 
  written 
  in 
  a 
  

   clear 
  entertaining 
  style 
  suited 
  to 
  the 
  general 
  reader 
  ; 
  the 
  typo- 
  

   graphical 
  work 
  is 
  excellent 
  and 
  the 
  same 
  can 
  be 
  said 
  of 
  the 
  colored 
  

   plates. 
  

  

  OBITUARY. 
  

  

  Me. 
  John 
  H. 
  "Redfield, 
  one 
  of 
  the 
  co-editors 
  of 
  the 
  "Pre- 
  

   liminary 
  Flora 
  of 
  Mount 
  Desert 
  Island 
  " 
  — 
  a 
  model 
  contribution 
  

   to 
  Geographical 
  Botany 
  — 
  died 
  at 
  his 
  home 
  in 
  Philadelphia, 
  on 
  

   the 
  28th 
  of 
  February 
  in 
  his 
  80th 
  year. 
  He 
  had 
  scarcely 
  received 
  

   the 
  congratulations 
  of 
  the 
  friends 
  of 
  the 
  amenable 
  science, 
  before 
  

   he 
  quietly 
  passed 
  away 
  under 
  an 
  attack 
  of 
  influenza. 
  For 
  nearly 
  

   twenty 
  years 
  previously 
  he 
  had 
  served 
  as 
  Conservator 
  of 
  the 
  

   Herbarium 
  of 
  the 
  Academy 
  of 
  Natural 
  Sciences 
  of 
  Philadelphia, 
  

   to 
  the 
  care 
  of 
  which 
  he 
  gave 
  much 
  of 
  his 
  spare 
  time, 
  except 
  the 
  

   three 
  months 
  of 
  each 
  summer 
  devoted 
  to 
  the 
  exploration 
  of 
  

   Mount 
  Desert 
  Island. 
  In 
  the 
  department 
  of 
  vascular 
  Crypto- 
  

   gams 
  he 
  ranked 
  among 
  the 
  highest 
  authorities. 
  He 
  was 
  the 
  son 
  

   of 
  the 
  well 
  known 
  Redfield 
  who 
  discovered 
  the 
  rotatory 
  motion 
  

   of 
  tornadoes, 
  and 
  was 
  born 
  at 
  what 
  is 
  now 
  Cromwell, 
  Connecti- 
  

   cut. 
  Moving 
  with 
  his 
  parents 
  to 
  New 
  York, 
  he 
  became 
  among 
  

   the 
  younger 
  of 
  those 
  who 
  founded 
  the 
  New 
  York 
  Lyceum 
  of 
  

   Natural 
  History. 
  Marrying 
  into 
  the 
  family 
  of 
  the 
  Whitneys, 
  

   who 
  established 
  the 
  great 
  car 
  wheel 
  works 
  in 
  Philadelphia, 
  he 
  

   removed 
  to 
  that 
  city 
  in 
  1861, 
  and 
  took 
  an 
  active 
  part 
  in 
  all 
  that 
  

   tended 
  to 
  the 
  growth 
  of 
  the 
  Academy. 
  The 
  Hookers, 
  Torrey, 
  

   Gray, 
  Sargent, 
  and 
  many 
  eminent 
  scientific 
  men 
  were 
  among 
  his 
  

   intimate 
  friends, 
  who 
  honored 
  him 
  for 
  his 
  many 
  manly 
  virtues 
  as 
  

   for 
  his 
  scientific 
  worth. 
  He 
  was 
  one 
  of 
  the 
  founders 
  of 
  the 
  

   American 
  Association 
  for 
  the 
  Advancement 
  of 
  Science. 
  His 
  mod- 
  

   esty 
  led 
  him 
  to 
  decline 
  many 
  tendered 
  honors, 
  his 
  only 
  ambition 
  

   being 
  to 
  leave 
  behind 
  him, 
  in 
  the 
  Herbarium 
  of 
  the 
  Academy, 
  

   something 
  that 
  should 
  be 
  useful 
  to 
  others 
  for 
  all 
  time. 
  t. 
  m. 
  

  

  Dr. 
  Lothar 
  von 
  Meyer, 
  Professor 
  of 
  Chemistry 
  at 
  Tubingen, 
  

   died 
  on 
  the 
  12th 
  of 
  April 
  in 
  his 
  sixty-fifth 
  year. 
  He 
  was 
  one 
  of 
  

   the 
  most 
  prominent 
  chemists 
  of 
  Germany, 
  at 
  once 
  as 
  investigator, 
  

   author 
  and 
  teacher. 
  The 
  discovery 
  of 
  the 
  periodic 
  law 
  is 
  

   largely 
  due 
  to 
  him. 
  

  

  Dr. 
  Carl 
  Vogt, 
  the 
  famous 
  German 
  naturalist, 
  died 
  in 
  

   Geneva, 
  Switzerland, 
  on 
  the 
  5th 
  of 
  May 
  in 
  his 
  eighty-second 
  year. 
  

  

  