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provided for his department. One of the unique features of this building, 

 the general plans for which were made by Mr. Cox, is a roof garden for 

 which he had longed and of which he had dreamed for many years. In that 

 roof garden he grew a large part of the plant material used in his Iwtanical 

 work. 



Cox was also a good photographer, so he made provision in the new 

 building for a well-equipped dark-room where he developed thousands of 

 negatives and made vast numbers of stereopticon slides of which he made 

 constant use in his teaching. 



In his home he had a well-equipped printing press which he had installed 

 for the use of his son Warren, but it is more than likely he made greater 

 use of it than did the son. On this press he printed the outlines of his lec- 

 tures, laboratory directions, syllabi of subjects, and many other aids to 

 teaching and for distribution among his students. 



Mr. Cox possessed considerable musical ability. He sang tenor very well, 

 and, while at Mankato, organized and directed an orchestra in the Normal 

 School. 



When agriculture was added to his subjects in the Normal at Terre 

 Haute, he found the experience and training he had gained on his father's 

 farm of great benefit to him and his students. He soon bought a small 

 farm south of town which he largely used for experimental and instruc- 

 tional purposes with his classes. 



As already intimated in this sketch. Mr. Cox was a man of broad interests 

 and varied attainments ; he was an all-round man in the best sense of the 

 word. As a man of affairs, he was active in civic, scientitic, and educational 

 circles. He took a keen and active interest in matters of community and 

 public concern. As a naturalist, he was most interested in birds and botany, 

 bat his natural history studies were not confined to those lines. He early 

 showed an interest in mollusks as evidenced by his paper on the mollusks 

 of Randolph County. 



Mr. Cox was equally and unusually efficient, whether in the field as a 

 collector and observer, or in the laboratory and class-room as student. 

 teacher or investigator. During his student days and as my laboratoiy 

 assistant in the Indiana State Normal School, he was (with the exception 

 of Dr. Scovell) my most frequent companion on trips a-field. Together we 

 explored practically all the woods, fields, ponds, and streams within a 

 radius of ten to fifteen miles of Terre Haute. Among favorite places to 

 which we frequently went were the Five-mile pond north of town. Coal 

 Creek, Honey Creek, and the Goose Pond some nine miles south of the 

 city. These were all places of unusual interest to the zoologist and to the 

 botanist. The Goose Pond was most interesting, t\)r there we found several 

 species of birds not often seen elsewhere in the county — among them the 

 least bittern, great bittern, coot, pied-billed grebe. Carolina rail, and Vir- 

 ginia rail. All of these species nested in that pond. Most interesting of 

 all, we found the white water lily there in abundance. Mr. Cox suggested 

 that we gather a considerable number of these beautiful, fragrant flowers 

 and take a bouquet of them to certain students who were ill. The flowers 

 were so abundant that we gathered not only enough to take a fine bouquet 

 to each student whom we knew to be ill. Init we took one to every young 

 lady student in our classes, and to each lady member of the faculty ! This 



