EDITORIAL 



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The fourth season of work in Nature-Study at the Con- 

 necticut State Chatauqua begins July 12th at Plainville. Con- 

 necticut. The Nature Study is under the direction of the edi- 

 tor of this magazine and consists of a daily talk on out-door 

 subjects followed b}- an excursion in wood and field. From 

 a small beginning this department of the Chatauqua has grown 

 to be one of the most important, and those who would like 

 one or two weeks outing in the woods with a company of 

 people interested in birds, flowers, etc.. are invited to investi- 

 g^ate its merits. The expenses are low and the accommodations 

 good. Those who wish further information may address The 

 Connecticut Chatauqua Association, 411 Windsor Ave., Hart- 

 ford, Conn. 



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Before Bishop Vincent attained his present eminence he 

 was for some time the minister in one of Joliet's churches. 

 Recently at an anniversary of the church, the Bishop preached 

 a sermon from which we cull the following extract. While 

 not strictly botanical, it voices so nearly the things for which 

 the journal stands that we are sure it is worthy of a wider 

 audience : 



"He is a wise man who resolves to live, whatever his oc- 

 cupation, in the widest sphere of life possible to him. Books 

 give vision and vistas to men. Books make men travelers. 

 Books turn ordinary men into scientists, philosophers and the 

 companions of poets and sages. I pity little narrow limited 

 shut in and shut up souls who toil and tramp and dicker and 

 bargain, and eat and drink and sleep, and die, having neglected 

 this packed and glorious universe of sights and sounds of 

 science and splendor all about them — calling to them, beckon- 



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