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through his efforts in establishing and perfecting the beautiful 

 Mt. Auburn cemetery. He was the first in the world to conceive 

 and to perfect plans for applying the appropriate art of landscape 

 gardening to the adornment of the "city of the dead." From 

 his first public effort in 1825, through the seven years in which 

 he persistently urged the adoption of his plans, and during the 

 halt century which followed, he had the satisfaction of being 

 known as the originator and strongest advocate of an art which 

 he lived to see world-wide in its practice. When others took no 

 interest in his measures, he himself became architect and garden- 

 er, and attended to all the details of the undertaking. One of 

 his last labors was to devise a mammoth sphinx, which was 

 sculptured in stone and presented to the cemetery as a monument 

 to the soldiers who perished in the war. Ere the monument was 

 placed on its site its venerable projector had been wholly de- 

 prived of vision, but with others' help he was raised slowly and 

 enabled to pass his hands over the whole structure, that he might 

 "see it by feeling." He compiled a little book descriptive of the 

 monument, and sketching the propriety of transferring the em- 

 blem from Egypt to America. He also wrote an attractive vol- 

 ume giving a detailed history of the cemetery. 



Dr. Bigelow had the highest appreciation of the beautiful in 

 nature and the meritorious in literature and art. Always in love 

 with nature, he named the walks and paths of Mt. Auburn after 

 plants and flowers. Nothing could more fitly preserve his mem- 

 ory than its association with the vegetable world through the 

 genus Bigelovia, which De Candolle bestowed, in 1836, upon 

 some golden-flowered Composite. More than thirty American 

 species have since been referred to this genus. 



Dr. Bigelow early took to poetry, and at intervals during his 

 life he wrote poems in English, Latin and Greek. A volume of 

 his collected poems was anonymously published under the name 

 of "Eolopcesis, American Rejected Addresses." When at last he 

 became infirm and was confined to his room, he amused himself 

 by translating into Greek and Litin verse the Mother Goose mel- 

 odies, which he published under the title of "Chenodia. " Toward 

 the close of his life the bright intellect became dimmed, the lamp 

 burned low, aud on the 10th of January, 1879, in his ninety-sec- 

 ond year, the last ember expired. — L. H. Bailey, Jr. 



