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DR. LEONHARD STEJNEGER 
It was concerning one of Dr. Leonhard Stejneger’s best known works that Dr. 
R. Bowdler Sharpe wrote the following: “I must emphatically state my conviction 
that, with the exception of some of Professor Elliott Coiies’s essays, there has never 
been a popular work on birds so well conceived as the ‘Aves’ volume of the “Stand- 
ard Natural History,” or one which, professedly popular in its aims, contains such 
an amount of sterling new and original work. It differs, moreover, from most re- 
cent schemes in giving diagnostic characters for every Order and Family, and is 
thus entitled to foremost rank as an original work.”" The same year (1885) that 
the volume on ‘Birds’ of the Standard Natural History appeared, Dr. Stejneger’s 
exhaustive treatise on the Birds of the Commander Islands and Kamtschatka wms 
published. Previously the well-known Analecta Ornithologica was commenced in 
The Ank, and during the years following, the Review of the Birds of Japan came 
out in instalments in the Proceedings of the U. S. National Museum; and in the 
same publication appeared a number of articles on Hawaiian Birds. Dr. Stejneger 
has been responsible for a very extensive list of papers, many of them on the more 
difficult phases of ornithological investigation. His work has been characterized 
by unusual thoroughness and accuracy, and has undoubtedly greatly influenced, 
at least in America, our present conceptions of the relationships and classification of 
birds. During the past decade Dr. Stejneger has devoted a large part of his time 
to herpetology. 
a .\ Review of Recent Atteuipls to Clas.sify Birds. By R, Bowdler Sharpe, L.I.. E>., F. R. S. Budapest, 1891, p. 24. 
