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pious in Texas; searching- for the flowers and insects of 

 the Argentine Republic; gathering algae and sea-shells 

 on the coast of Florida; growing wise in the paleontol- 

 ogy of Iowa; arranging the variously colored sands of 

 the Mississippi river in curious bottles; in Massachu- 

 setts anxious to know whether "the Limnanthemum of 

 our water has roots;" sending from Chicago to learn 

 about the center of buoyancy; holding field meetings 

 in Illinois; celebrating 1 the birthday of Professor Ag'assiz 

 (May 28) in many States with a picnic and appropriate 

 exercises; giving entertainments and realizing enough 

 "to buy a cabinet and have thirty dollars over to start a 

 library" in Oregon; making successful collections in Vir- 

 ginia; enjoying the assistance and listening to the lec- 

 tures of eminent scientists in Philadelphia; enrolling 

 scholars and teachers in Connecticut and Rhode Island; 

 determining' to become professors in the District of 

 Columbia; writing fraternal messages from Canada; 

 selecting quartz crystals from the hot springs of Arkan- 

 sas; discovering Geastrums on Long Island; and every- 

 where learning to detect the beautiful in the common, 

 and the wonderful in the before despised. 



