We went to Egypt, journeyed up the Nile, traveled through the Holy Land and part of Syria, visited Greece and Constantinople; and then we children spent the summer in a German family in Dresden.

My first real collecting as a student of natural history was done in Egypt during this journey.

By this time I had a good working knowledge of American bird life from the superficially scientific standpoint.

I had no knowledge of the ornithology of Egypt, but I picked up in Cairo a book by an English clergyman, whose name I have now forgotten, who described a trip up the Nile, and in an appendix to his volume gave an account of his bird collection.

I wish I could remember the name of the author now, for I owe that book very much.