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was worth $60,000. He then showed a sUde picturing a spider's 

 web, upon which the dew had fallen. This was greatly magni- 

 fied and the dewdrops resembled diamonds and pearls. Mr. 

 Bigelow said that if spiders' webs were rare they would be 

 worth $60,000, but as they are as common as grass :^o one 

 thinks they are anywhere as beautiful as diamonds and pearls. 

 Other slides shown were as follows: 



The skunk cabbage (symplocarpus foetidus), which is one 

 of the heralds of spring. 



The Horned Owl (Bubo virginianus), shown feeding the 

 young. 



Also what might be called a family group of owls, i. e., four 

 young owls, one asleep, one lamenting the fact that they were 

 left alone, and two with their heads together. 



The Barn Owl (Strix flammea) with young and feeding same. 



The Chickadee (Rarus, atricapillus) with young and feed- 

 ing same. 



The Field Sparrow (Spizella pusilla) and the Chipping 

 Sparrow (Spizella socialis), both with youag and feeding them. 



A Brook trout was taken while in its native haunts. 



A Phoebe bird was shown with her head half-way down the 

 neck of one of her young., that being the way she has to feed 

 it sometimes. 



The Brown thrasher (Harpo rhynchus rufus) was shown in 

 various sketches, as feeding young and with young. 



A Red-eyed Vireo (Vireonidae) was shown teaching one of 

 its young to sing. 



The butterfly weed was shown (Asclipiastuberosa) . 



The cocoon of the Monarch butterfly and the butterfly 

 itself were shown. 



Dr. Bigelow likened the Horned Owl to Dr. Jekyll and Mr. 

 Hyde, being Jekyll during the day and Hyde at night. 



The last slides shown were three different scenes of lightning 

 flashed on and off the screen in the manner of lightning. The 

 last scene gradually fade into a sunset, and the sunset faded 

 into the aftermath which invariably follows a sunset. 



