. The bird . For myself, I had long hailed, with all my heart, the great FrenchRevolution which had occurred in the Natural Sciences—the era ofLamarck and of Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire,* so fertile in method, themighty restorers of all science. With what happiness I traced theirfeatures in their legitimate sons—those ingenious children who haveinherited their intellect!. ^v— At their head let me name the amiable and original author of the Monde des Oiseaux, f whom the world has long recognized as oneof the most solid, if not also the most amusing, of naturalists. Ishall refer to him more than once
. The bird . For myself, I had long hailed, with all my heart, the great FrenchRevolution which had occurred in the Natural Sciences—the era ofLamarck and of Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire,* so fertile in method, themighty restorers of all science. With what happiness I traced theirfeatures in their legitimate sons—those ingenious children who haveinherited their intellect!. ^v— At their head let me name the amiable and original author of the Monde des Oiseaux, f whom the world has long recognized as oneof the most solid, if not also the most amusing, of naturalists. Ishall refer to him more than once ; but I hasten, on the threshold ofmy book, to pay this preliminary homage to a truly great observer,who, in all that concerns his own observations, is as weighty, asspecial, as Wilson or Audubon. * Jean Baptiste de Monet, Chevalier de Lamarck, was born August 1, 1744; diedDecember 20, 1829. His chief work is his History of Invertebrate Animals.—EtienneGeoffroy Saint-Hilaire was born in 1772, and died in 1844. He expounds his theory ofnatural history in tiie Philosophie Anatomique, 2 vols., 1818-20.—Translator. t Alphonse Toussenel, an illustrious French litterateur, born in 1803. The flrat editionof his Le Monde des Oiseaux, Ornithologie Passionelle, was published in 1852.—Translator. THE STUDY OF NATURE. 1? He has wronged himself by saying that, in
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