EDITORIAL AND GENERAL 



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Come when the leaves have 

 turned. To me there is no sadness in 

 the falling leaf, if it has color in it. 

 You have spoken of Cooper institute. 

 Ah, I could leave no better legacy to 

 my fellow men than the power to see 

 daily the beauties of the world God 

 has given us to live in ; for if we can 

 do that we shall all have riches that 

 cannot be lost or in any way taken 

 from us." 



I left him standing on the broad 

 step in front of his door, and as I 

 looked back before turning the corner 

 the old gentleman, whose long life had 

 been crowded with unusually useful 

 activities, was still standing on the 

 step, and his eyes were turned where 

 the summer foliage of Gramercy park 

 was showing itself between grim walls 

 of brick and stone. 



(Copyright, 1910, by E. J. Edwards. 

 All rights reserved.) " In N. Y. Mail. 

 Published by special permission to The 

 Guide to Nature. 



An Enthusiastic Student of Nature. 

 The accompanying illustration is of a 

 scene in Bangall, Dutchess County, New 

 York. Mrs. Arthur Chamberlain, the 

 late wife of the editor of our department, 

 "Mineralogy," was an ardent lover of 

 nature and spent a part of every summer 

 at a farmhouse in the above named town. 

 Although but a few hours' ride from 

 New York City, this locality is so iso- 

 lated that one could live here for weeks 

 without seeing a person outside of the 

 farmer and his help. The birds and rab- 

 bits are so tame from not being inter- 

 fered with that while they will look at 

 one with seeming wonder they will not 

 not run at one's approach. On the morn- 

 ing that the photograph was taken Mrs. 

 Chamberlain, barefooted and in old 

 clothes, had been out picking berries 

 when she ran across the son of the 

 "Weather Prophet" who had a camera 

 with him and who proved to be a sub- 

 scriber to "The Mineral Collector." He 

 therefore took Mrs. Chamberlain's pic- 

 ture and presented her with the negative. 

 The photograph from which this half 

 tone was made was printed and mounted 

 by Miss Davids, daughter of the founder 

 of Davids' Inks, who is herself a nature 

 lover. Mrs. Chamberlain was so much 



MRS. ARTHUR CHAMBERLAIN. 



in love with the wild beauty of this spot 

 that she purchased a plot of land, known 

 as "The Ravine," and had she lived 

 would have erected a bungalow on the 

 site. 



Fear Changed to Appreciation. 



In times past our ancestors lived 

 close to nature. Its forces and phe- 

 nomena enwrapped them upon all sides 

 conditioning them absolutely. The 

 forests, the rocks, streams and water- 

 falls were inhabited by spirits who 

 could injure or aid them. Awe and 

 fear of nature filled their minds. This 

 is the ancestral influence which, in our 

 higher and clearer way of looking at 

 the world, has developed into love of 

 nature. We no longer fear, and in its 

 stead has come the appreciation of the 

 wonderous beauty and harmony and 

 attractiveness of nature. — H. W. Fair- 

 banks, Berkeley, California. 



