In trying to decide what book to read for the 2000^th entry in this Journal, I came upon this book at the Bryn Mawr Book Sale in Cambridge, the origin for so many of the books in the Journal since 1971 when we first lived in Cambridge on Huron Avenue two blocks from the bookstore.  King Solomon’s Ring was the very first book entered into my Book Journal on July 7, 1978.  It followed a brief introduction to the Book  Journal as follows:  “Having wished to be able to recall the story, the phrase, the characters in hundreds of books over the last twenty years, I am at long last beginning a list of books read, making no attempt to recapture the hundreds that have passed.”  So it seemed only fitting that 38 years and 2000 books later, I would return to Lorenz.  In 1978 I only listed the title, author, date of publication, and date of completion, so I have no way to compare my reactions to the book then and now, but suffice it say that it was a slog getting through it this time.  A fine introduction from Julian Huxley, some clever illustrations by the author, and some interesting ethological facts did not prevent this book from being a bit tedious.  On top of that, doing some further reading about Lorenz, the 1973 Nobelist in Medicine for his efforts to establish this science of animal behavior, I learned that he had been in the German Army working as a psychologist testing German/Polish individuals for signs of ethnic pollution before being sent to the Eastern Front as a physician where he was captured and lived as a prisoner of the Russians from 1944-1948.  He initially denied his Nazi past, but later admitted it and regretted it, evidently not enough, however, for the University of Salzburg which stripped him on an honorary degree.  He died in 1989.