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" My young friends," said he, " it has been an untold 

 pleasure to me to review with you during the Summer 

 that is past a small part of my own studies in this beau- 

 tiful section of Natural History. I have been also much 

 gratified at the interest you all have manifested in collect- 

 ing specimens and in listening to my lectures about them. 

 It is my fond hope that this small beginning may awaken 

 in some of you at least the desire to pursue the study 

 further, and it is not impossible that, thus awakened, you 

 may go on and become men high in the ranks of science. 



" In this hope, and with the assurance that what we 

 have studied .is, however small, at least good in itself, I 

 dismiss our last session as a class." 



