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and healthful and hospitable country that is destined to be better known 

 to Americans in the future. The book contains much information concerning 

 topography and transportation, gives man}' interesting glimpses of the life 

 and ways of the people, but it is mainly an account of the plant and animal 

 life of the country. We know no book of travel that is so carefully written, 

 or so full of detailed information as to the haunts, habits and recognition 

 marks of the commoner species. One might go collecting in Costa Rica and 

 identify most of his captures by means of the pleasant reading these pages 

 afford. 



The chapters end with a vivid account of the great earthquake of May 4th, 

 1910, which destroyed the city of Cartago, and in that destruction wrecked 

 the little laboratory in which within a year's time Dr. and Mrs. Calvert had 

 done so much noteworthy and original work upon tropical American dragon- 

 flies. An appendix contains a bibliography, lists of the species discussed, 

 and other important data. 



J. G. N. 



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