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interest, we shall look forward to similar 

 publications of his fine material dealing 

 with rarities and with the water-birds, of 

 which he has made many hue studies. He 

 writes, and lectures too, from the modern 

 humanitarian standpoint of bird protection, 

 and is a valued addition to these forces for 

 righteousness. 



I 1 BRBERT K. \0B. 



THE FADED FLOWER. 



Oh little faded wild flower, 



I have watched yon where yon grew. 

 And waited for the tiny buds 



To spread their wings of blue; 

 Have wondered when the tempest beat, 



And mad winds hurried by, 



If such a frail, fair thing yet held 



Its blue wings to the sky 

 And when the sun burned hotly down- 

 Thirst reigned on every side — 

 I wondered if my woodland flower 



Had even this defied: 

 And even though the tempest beat 



And though the sun looked down, 

 This little wand held bravely up 



Its fair, frail azure crown. 

 But, faded on the wood path now. 



Plucked by some thoughtless hand. 

 Thy blue lies faded and undone 



Across the trodden sand 

 Oh, why, in this great world of ours, 



With space unbounded still, 

 May not the wild flower live its life 



Its mission to fulfill? 



George KlinglE. 



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[From The Stamford Bulletin, Stamford, 



Conn.] 



DK. BIGELOW, OUR NATURALIST. 



A VISIT TO THE LABORATORY ON GROVE ST. 

 —REMARKABLE WORK DONE UNDER RE- 

 STRICTED CONDITIONS — VARIOUS FORMS 

 OF LIFE UNDER INVESTIGATION — THE 

 AGASSIZ ASSOCIATION SHOULD GIVE ITS 

 PRESIDENT A LARGER EXPERIMENTING 

 FIELD. 



It can be safely and sanely stated that 

 •one of the most remarkable nooks in onr 

 city to-day is to be found on Grove 

 street, the home of onr well-known 

 townsman. Dr. Edward F. Bigelow, 

 whose refutation as a nature student, 

 nature lecturer and interpreter of nature 

 has gone far and wide. It is by no 

 means strange that many peoole visit the 

 place, and examine with deep interest 

 the work that is done tinder conditions 

 so contracted and confined. This, how- 

 -ever, is explained by coming in contact 

 with the man, the good genius of the 

 place, one might almost stvle him wiz- 



ard, in contemplating what he has 

 evolved from his congested surround- 

 ings. 



This is exactly, however, what indi- 

 cates the real student. The ordinarv 



man cannot accomplish much unless Ins 

 surroundings are put in adaptable condi- 

 tion to his work, but the true exponent 

 makes his environments bend to his pur- 

 pose and achieves success where others 

 would register failure. This is exactly 

 what a representative of The Bulletin 

 found when calling on the doctor recent- 

 ly at his home on Grove street. 



We were informed that the o-entleman 

 was in the backyard, and thither re- 

 paired. In contact with our naturalist 

 he opened up a flow of enthusiastic ex- 

 planation that needed the closest atten- 

 tion to follow, and take all in as he con- 

 ducted us from one little shanty to an- 

 other explaining what he had done, and 

 what he hoped to do. Out of the full- 

 ness of the heart the mouth spake, the 

 recital being of absorbing interest and 

 embracing varied features of practical 

 effort. It was a definite and succinct il- 

 lustration of "multum in parvo" and 

 made one wonder how the worker had 

 brought together so much in a small 

 back-yard, for though Grove street is 

 a desirable residential locality, its garden 

 space is sadly encroached on, when a 

 tithe of the work is attempted that Dr. 

 Bisrelow has laid out and has been carrv- 



