EDITORIAL AND GENERAL 



S3 



The Early Days of an Important Local 

 Museum. 

 Naturalists and, indeed, all of a cast 

 of mind to appreciate the beauties of 

 nature have been for several years not- 

 ing with much pleasure the develop- 

 ment of such interests by Mr. Paul 

 G. Howes of Stamford, Connecticut. 

 Even the pursuits of his younger days 

 were decidedly more than ordinary and 

 attracted much attention especially 

 among those fortunate enough to be 



vegetable and animal life, but there is 

 a certain indefinable something that is 

 perhaps the most nearly expressed by 

 saying that the coming naturalist adds 

 an intellectual zest to the ordinary out- 

 door, general, savage interest. It is not 

 enough to be a collector. Many a boy 

 has taken an active interest in postage 

 stamps, but has never become a post- 

 master general, a postmaster or even 

 a letter carrier. There have been many 

 bird stuffers and collectors who were 



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very far from being ornithologists. 



personally acquainted with him. But 



boyish interests in natural history are There are plenty of fishermen and clam 



not unusual; every boy roams the diggers who never become scientifically 



woods and fields, swims in the ponds interested in the subject of their pnr- 



and wades the brooks, and thereby suit. There are plenty of sailors who 



gains a certain general knowledge of have been around the world and ac- 



