TIMOTHY ABBOT CONRAD. 



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very small and is not yet exhausted. In 1871 his nephew, Dr. 

 C. C. Abbott, undertook to bring together the scattered short 

 poems, and found thirty-two of these, mostly in the corners of 

 newspapers and two in manuscript. The little volume was 

 "privately printed." It bears the title, A Geological Vision 

 and Other Poems. Trenton, N. J., 1871. 



In his nonscientific writings Conrad invites a comparison 

 with Thoreau, but, while loving the outdoor world as devoted- 

 ly, he always had an eye to physical comfort, and preferred at 

 the end of a long tramp, a good bed at a tavern to sleeping 

 out of doors. So too, probably, did Thoreau, but then to say 

 so does not sound so prettily in a book. 



Timothy Abbott Conrad died in Trenton, N. J., August 9, 

 1877, the last of the prominent group of early Philadelphia 

 naturalists, who paved the way for the more philosophical 

 biologists of the present day. 



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