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A Photographic Souvenir of the West- 

 ern Plains. 



BY FRED E. WHITE, BROWNTOWN, WISCON- 

 SIN. 



The accompanying photograph 

 shows the sod-shanty home of Glen 

 Davis, a young man from Indiana, lo- 

 cated about ten miles northwest of 

 Butte, Nebraska, in the valley of the 

 Xiborara and about cue mile from the 



day when I first saw a bee-orchis 

 (Ophrys apifera) in ignorant astonish- 

 ment, to my first view of the grand 

 forests of the Amazon ; thence to the 

 Malay Archipelago, where every fresh 

 island with its marvellous novelties 

 and beauties was an additional delight 

 — nature has afforded me an ever-in- 

 creasing rapture, and the attempt to 

 solve some of her myriad problems an 



A PHOTOGRAPHIC STUDY OF A SOD SHANTY. 



river, — an illustration of claim life on 

 western virgin lands. The roof is 

 overgrown with a healthy crop of wild 

 grass, weeds and Russian thistles. Mr. 

 Davis was living here alone, with his 

 pony, dog and cow. The photograph 

 was taken in July, 1903. 



Dr. Wallace's Enjoyment of Nature, 



The general biology class of the Uni- 

 versity of Colorado sent a letter of ap- 

 preciation to Dr. Alfred Russell Wal- 

 lace on the occasion of his eighty-ninth 

 birthday. He replied as follows : 

 My dear Young Friends: 



Thank you much for your very kind 

 greetings. I am much pleased that so 

 many of you are readers of my books. 

 The wonders of nature have been the 

 delight and solace of my life. From the 



ever-growing sense of mystery and 

 awe. And now, in my wild garden and 

 greenhouse, the endless diversities of 

 plant life renew my enjoyments; and 

 the ever-changing pageants of the sea- 

 sons impress me more than ever in my 

 earlier days. 



I sincerely wish you all some of the 

 delight in the mere contemplation of 

 nature's mysteries and beauties which 

 I have enjoyed, and still enjoy. 



We are anxiously watching the re- 

 ports of the improvements of the new 

 Arcadia, which we hope and trust will 

 only give the AA a new birth of zeal 

 with which to further our cause of 

 nature study. — Xao)ni E. Dixon, Secre- 

 tary J ahnstown {Pennsylvania) Chapter 

 of 'the A A. 



