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THE GUIDE TO NATURE. 



broadness of mind and soul, and work 

 for the love of the work. 



Do not think that I am complaining. 

 There is nothing discouraging so far as 

 the past is concerned. An immense 

 amount of vitally practical work has been 

 done in technical investigation, but it has 

 progressed none too rapidly. May its 

 speed be accelerated instead of hindered. 



cover a new field or treat the subject in 

 a better way for the non-technical stu- 

 dent, they will be printed. I am satis- 

 fied that there are thousands, old, young, 

 and middle aged, who would be healthier 

 and happier, and life would be fuller, if 

 they possessed and used a microscope. 

 It fills with zest almost every walk or 

 ride in the woods, by the rivers, ponds 





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"TONGUE" (RADULA) OF SNAIL SHOWING RASP-LIKE TEETH. 



A favorite "Oh my! " object of the amateur microscopist. 



From mount by the Rev. J. D. King. 



Manufacturers of microscopes have 

 every year been making better and bet- 

 ter instruments, not only optically but 

 mechanically. Some seem almost per- 

 fect; and though the patterns are nearl) 

 all of the continental type, some of them 

 are very beautiful as well as serviceable. 

 I f microscopists attain become numerous, 

 as I hope they will, and if they know 

 what they want as well as the so-called 

 "practical" men have known what they 

 want, the manufacturers will supply the 

 demand. When there is a demand for a 

 magazine to help, to encourage, and in 

 a way to unite microscopists, it will be 

 published. When books are needed that 



and marshes, and the pleasure does not 

 cease with the walk nor with the exam- 

 ination of the treasures discovered. It 

 comes up again and again in memory 

 all through life with a strange fascination 

 that increases rather than diminishes 

 with time. The mind is made richer 

 and sees more in the trees, grasses, flow- 

 ers, ponds and streams. 



It seems that there has been for a 

 long time, especially among American 

 people in the country, a longing for the 

 cities, but within the last few years the 

 old primeval instinct to get near to 

 nature is outcropping everywhere. Those 

 who are so fortunate as to have enough 



