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fishes, and shells beyond number, more than you can 

 study, perhaps. You city folk, instead of having too 

 little, have altogether too much of too many things. 

 But such a museum is always a suggestive place for 

 one who loves the out-of-doors. And the more one 

 knows of nature, the more one gets out of the mu- 

 seum. You can carry there, and often answer, the 

 questions that come to you in your tramps afield, in 

 your visits to the Garden, and in your reading of 

 books. Then add to this the great Agassiz Museum 

 at Harvard University, and the Aquarium at South 

 Boston, and the Zoological Gardens at Franklin 

 Park, and the Arnold Arboretum all of these with 

 their multitude of mounted specimens and their liv- 

 ing forms for you ! For me also ; and in from the 

 country I come, very often, to study natural history 

 in the city. 



What is true of Boston is true of every city in 

 some degree. The sun and the moon and stars shine 

 upon the city as upon the country, and during my 

 years of city life (I lived in the very heart of Boston) 

 it was my habit to climb to my roof, above the din 

 and glare of the crowded street, and here among the 

 chimney-pots to lie down upon my back, the city far 

 below me, and overhead the blue sky, the Milky Way, 

 the constellations, or the moon, swinging 



"Through the heaven's wide pathless way, 

 And oft, as if her head she bowed 

 Stooping through a fleecy cloud." 



