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Fred Spaulding. 



Mr. F. B. Spaulding of Lancaster, N. 

 H., died October 22d. What this means 

 to me and to many other of his friends, 

 Ihe heart has not power to express. To 

 have known Mr. Spaulding, long and 

 intimately was an honor. Viewing his 

 character from every standpoint, it 

 may well be said that he was one of 

 the noblest works of God. 



My acquaintance with him dates 

 l)ack to 1901, and from our first meet- 

 ing I have prized him as a friend and 

 as a man. Calm, deliberate, unpreten- 

 "tious, intelligent, accurate, loyal and 

 true, with a heart that knew no limits 

 in love and sympathy, and a nature 

 that knew no limits in kindness and 

 hospitality. In him a sterJirg man 

 has gone to his rest and the places 

 that knew him will miss him for all 

 time. 



I believe Mr. Spaulding never recov- 

 ered from the loss of his little daugh- 

 ter Helen, in August, 1910. She was a 

 remarkably lovely child whom I knew 

 «nd loved from the time she was four 

 years old. At the age of seven she 

 developed a disease of the heart, from 

 which she died six years la'fer. The 

 anxiety and untiring efl'ort during this 

 period of time to save her life was 

 worthy of success, but it was not to 

 be so, and the blow which finally fell 

 did much to shatter Mr. Spaulding's 

 hold on life. The last letter, which I 

 received from him, only a month or 

 two ago, related tears in his words as 

 he spoke of his lonesomeness in the 

 woods, on collecting trips, "now that 

 the sweet little face that always greet- 

 ed me on my return, to ask what new 

 eggs I had found for myself and what 

 new flowers I had found for her, was 

 no more"- — a wail from the depths of 

 a wounded soul — heart-yearns that 

 only death can calm. 



Mr. Spaulding was born in Lancast- 

 er, about thirty-eight years ago and 



has been all his life an enthusiastic 

 student of Ornithology, and he has 

 done valuable work in a most prolific 

 locality, that has scarcely been touch- 

 ed by any one else — the White Moun- 

 tain region. 



Energetic, tireless and observant, 

 never jumping at conclusions, the ac- 

 curacy of his records has never been 

 questioned. The variety of Warblers, 

 which he found breeding in his local- 

 ily, is most remarkable, and the state 

 of New Hampshire is indebted to him 

 for many of its rarest records. Among 

 a wide circle of friends and corres- 

 pondents, particularly in Oology, Mr. 

 Spaulding will be missed, possibly 

 more than any other, who might have 

 been removed from the sphere of use- 

 fulness in that field. 



John Lewis Child. 

 October 25, 1913. 



Two Months in the Everglades. 

 PART L 

 By Oscar E. Barnard. 



The Spring of 1911 saw the fulfill- 

 ment of a trip I had long planned for 

 and I was able to spend part of Febru- 

 ary, all of March and part of April in 

 this wonderful "Naturalist's Paradise." 

 To treat the subject right I will divide 

 it into two parts, first the one describ- 

 ing the water trip, the second the land 

 trip. 



I left Fort Myers one evening on the 

 "Wanderer," a cabin launch with my 

 canoe behind. The trip up the Caloos- 

 ahatchie River is one of the finest to 

 l)e had any where. The river is very 

 crooked, one is always being surprised 

 at the natural scenery, it flows be- 

 tween high banks and for several 

 miles flows through a settled country 

 and some of the finest groves of citrus 

 fruit to be found any where are along 

 its banks. The vegetation is largely 

 hammocks of the beautiful Cabbage 

 Palmetto, Pine and Oak. Very few 



