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holidays in making excursions and voyages, and who give 

 the consomme of their impressions as a new fruit of their 

 leisure. Of such are the Germans, Dr. Rudolf Blasius and Dr. 

 BoUe, 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 INIerriam at Washington ; Pycraft at 

 Oxford, and others. The proprietors of oological 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 Alleon, 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 



