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musty relics are handed down from generation to generation 

 thereby cheating would-be workers with their false value. My 

 task is finished if I have been able to show, at least to some extent, 

 that whatsoever is most exact and regular concerning nature is 

 also most useful and excellent. 



A Necrology of Nature-Lovers 



Anna B. Comstock 



During the past months of 1922, there have gone from our 

 midst several who belong essentially to the realm of nature- 

 study. They were not great scientists in the sense of being 

 specialists but two of them were Naturalists of a high order, one a 

 poet, one a teacher. In their going, the living world has lost 

 loving interpreters and we moum our loss of their inspiring com- 

 panionship. 



Enos Mills 

 Enos Mills was to the Rocky Mountains what John Burroughs 

 was to the East and John Muir to the Sierras, — a careful observer 

 and a sympathetic interpreter of nature in all its forms and phases ; 

 he w r as a firm believer in the conservation of natural scenery and 

 wild life. He was born in Kansas City, Kansas, April 22, 1870. 

 As a lad, he was not strong and his schooling was by no means 

 regular or consecutive. At the age of 16 he was so delicate that, 

 fearing tuberculosis, he went to Long's Peak, Estes Park, Colorado 

 and lived there in a cabin. It was a lonely place in those days for 

 a boy, since he had no companions for the greater part of the year. 

 He soon found companionship with Mother Nature, and she served 

 him well; he grew in health and strength until his prowess as a 

 mountain climber became known the world over; he climbed 

 Long's Peak more than 250 times; he explored vast areas alone, 

 on foot and without a gun. It was inevitable that he should 

 find self-expression in writing. He wrote The Story of Estes 

 Park, in 1905 and later the following volumes: Wild Life in the 

 Rockies; The Spell of the Rockies; In Beaver World; The Story 

 of a Thousand Year Pine; Rocky Mountain Wonderland; The 

 Story of Scotch; Your National Parks; The Grizzly, Our Great- 

 est Wild Animal; The Adventures of a Nature Guide. 



