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Very Late Raspberries. 

 Indian Harbor: Greenwich, Conn. 

 To the Editor : 



On page 395 of your January number 

 of The Guide to Nature Harriet E. 

 Wilson reports having" found raspber- 

 ries on the twenty-second of Septem- 

 ber. 



For many years past I have an 

 abundant supply of raspberries of a 

 late variety from about the middle of 



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August to the latter part of October. 

 I picked a handful this last year on the 

 fourth of November. 



Yours sincerely, 



E. C. Benedict. 



tangled wildwood and gleam of swirl- 

 ing water over a rocky bed. 



I see, too, you show how amicably 

 our cows and pigs get on together here 

 in Iowa. That giving and getting of 

 the milk you picture on page 379 is 

 certainly a great object lesson for unity 

 of effort amid somewhat conflicting ele- 

 ments. But Iowa is a great state and 

 can do almost anything! 



Sincerely yours, 



George Bennett. 



Two Interests of the January Number. 



Cedar Rapids, Iowa. 

 To the Editor : 



I have received your splendid num- 

 ber for the current month and desire to 

 heartily congratulate you on the happy 

 combination of interesting subjects and 

 excellent pictures, and a combination, 

 too, that is not only informing as to 

 statement but pertinently suggestive 

 along lines of further inquiry. 



How natural the old mills look, and 

 many will read Mr. Davenport's recital 

 of their history with absorbed interest. 

 It is to be hoped that this, the beauty 

 spot of the town of Stamford, will be 

 perpetually preserved in its pristine 

 loveliness, and not be robbed of its 

 spell and charm by the invasion of the 

 house builder. The readers of The 

 Guide to Nature in Stamford should 

 head a movement for securing to the 

 town, forever and inviolate, this pictur- 

 esque tract as a rural park, a resting 

 spot for tired nerves, a place where the 

 busy and hard grind of life is momen- 

 tarily obscured by a vision of the 



Heretofore Studying in the Dark. 



Evansville, Ind. 

 The Agassiz Association : 



I received my certificate of member- 

 ship and the back numbers of The 

 Guide to Nature several days ago. 



I am surprised at the enthusiasm the 

 "Hand Book" stirred up in me. I am 

 naturally an observer of nature but 

 after reading the book through, things 

 look different to me. It has caused me 

 to form systematic plans of study. 

 Heretofore I seemed to be studying in 

 the dark but now everything appears 

 in a different light. It has caused me 

 to go at my own work ( that of making 

 geological surveys) in a different way 

 and perhaps in an easier way. 



The lines of work which you can ex- 

 nect reports on will be geology and 

 botany. I expect to study and classify 

 all the trees that I can in this vicinity 

 and broaden out as far as I am ca- 

 pable in botany. I did not take up hot- 

 any while in college, but have studied 

 it a little since, but always in the dark. 

 I have now formed plans to take it up 

 systematically. I have an excellent 

 chance to carry on the study of botany 

 in connection with my geological 

 work. 



