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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 botanical 
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 yast 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 instrue- 
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 aman of affairs, he was active in civic, scientific, and educational 
cireles. 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, 
but 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 
eollector and observer, or in the laboratory and class-room as student, 
teacher or investigator. During his student days and as my laboratory 
assistant in the Indiana State Normal School, he was (with the exception 
of Dr. Seovell) 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, for 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, but we took one to every young 
lady student in our classes, and to each lady member of the faculty! This 
