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bridge, and I worked under one of the great mas- 

 ters, the most inspiring teacher of nature that the 

 world has known. 



The house in Cambridge where we lived this 

 year was not distant from the museum, and was 

 surrounded by an open field, where numerous 

 trees were scattered about, the whole attractive 

 to birds. 



For the coming year I studied under the direc- 

 tion of Louis Agassiz, with Professor N. S. Shaler, 

 Dr. Jeffries Wyman, and Mr. J. A. Allen, who was 

 then Curator of Birds and Mammals in the Museum 

 of Comparative Zoology. 



Nominally a student in the Lawrence Scientific 

 School, a department of Harvard University, I 

 was really a special student working almost en- 

 tirely in the direction of natural history. 



One of the first things I did on going to Cam- 

 bridge was to find out what local laws there were 

 that would allow me to pursue the collecting of 

 birds. By that time my mind was made up that 

 this was the work I wanted to do more than 

 anything else. Having ascertained that it was 

 necessary to apply to the mayor of the city of 

 Cambridge for a permit to shoot birds, I made 

 application, and received a document setting forth 

 that such a privilege was granted to me. Hence 

 I was enabled to collect all kinds of birds at any 

 season of the year. None of this work was done 



