AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGY IS BORN

摘要

"...Close application to the duties of my profession, which I have followed since November, 1795, has deeply injured my constitution, the more so, that my rambling disposition was the worst calculated of anyone' in the world for the austere regularity of a teacher's life, I have had many pursuits since I left Scotland, Mathematics, the German Language, Music, Drawing, &c, and I am about to make a collection of all our finest birds.