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- 

 naeus, 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 oologists, Jacobus Klein, author of Stemmata Avium 

 and Historiae 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 Belon, Georges Leopold Chretien 

 Frederic Dagobert Cuvier, Bernard Germain fitienne Lacd- 

 pbde, Jacquin, and L. P. Vieillot. The renowned inventor 

 of the thermometer, Rend Antoine Ferchault de Reaumur, 

 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. 



