8 INTRODUCTION 



Among those who have aided by notes or suggestions, 

 and to whom I desire particularly to acknowledge my obli- 

 gations, are Messrs, F. C. Browne and H. D. Eastman of 

 Framingham; A. L, Babcock, E. J. Smith, and F. A. Syl- 

 vester of Sherborn; P. S. Roberts of Natick; L. Schneider 

 and Matthew Brown of South Natick ; J. Goulding and 

 A. W. Morse of South Sudbury; C. J. Maynard of New- 

 tonville; Geo. E. Browne of Dedham ; S. W. Denton, 

 S. F. Denton, and Thomas Smith of Wellesley; Miss 

 A. C. Chapin, Miss K. Edwards, and Miss M. E. Hub- 

 bard of Wellesley College; Mr. H. A. Purdie of Boston; 

 Mr. Bradford Torrey of Wellesley Hills; Dr. Walter 

 Faxon and Mr. Wm. Brewster of Cambridge. Acknowl- 

 edgment is due also to Mr. E. O. Perkins, of Wellesley, for 

 permission to use his photograph of the " Screech Owls 

 and Nest" (taken on the college grounds in 1895 and re- 

 produced in part in the frontispiece), a picture which needs 

 to be seen in the original to be fully appreciated. 



