Sublime

He was coauthor of a textbook, Principles of Zoology, his first American work, which went through sixteen editions

Sherman Eager, an officer in the Lost Battalion, who decades after the war brought his children to see Cher Ami at the Smithsonian and told them, “You all owe your lives to that pigeon.” Whatever the facts may be, the story of the self-sacrificing winged savior proved irresistible.[8]