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branch of the family belongs the noble name of Diemyctylus 

 viridescens. I tell you all this because I hope you will share this 

 name with me and help me to make it honored in all the land." 



Probably she accepted the high sounding title, for afterwards 

 they were seen together more than ever. In perfect qtiiet and 

 content they remain motionless near each other, their beautiful 

 golden brown eyes alone showing how watchful they are. There 

 they wait until some little creature swnms or floats before them, 

 then, quick as a wink, the creature is gone and Mr. Diemyctylus is 

 smacking his lips and blinking his eyes as if to say, "Well that was 

 a tasty morsel ; who woiild be a vegetarian, indeed, who could dine 

 on such fine fat mollusks on the half shell?" 



Then all is quiet again except their regular pulsating breathing as 

 shown by their throats, or an occasional dash to the top to get a 

 great swallow of air. 



In a month or two, when again the air is full of the song of ever}' 

 creature with a voice, Mrs. Diemyctylus hides away some little 

 eggs among the water plants, and soon the children of our hero are 

 beginning their life. Is it not a pity that his eyes cannot see, and 

 that he cannot tell how the mysteries in those little eggs unfold, 

 how the marvelous changes are wrought in the varied life history 

 of these little ones ? Perhaps the pity is even greater that he does 

 not love them enough to even look at them at all, but just leaves 

 them to fight their own battles as his parents left him. 



The Garden Number of the Review 



Mrs. Susan Sipe Albertis is the editor of the Garden Ntunbers 

 of the Nature-Study Review. The common ever\-month editor 

 spent last winter in Florida and never saw the March Rexdew 

 until it was published. Mrs. Albertis did all the work of collect- 

 ing articles and pictures and of editing and proof-reading, and 

 yet so great is her modesty that nowhere does her name appear 

 as Special Editor. The best that can be done now is for the 

 common ever^'-month editor to tell her readers that she is very 

 proud of the March Number and the many complements it has 

 received and that its excellence is entirely due to the efficient 

 management of Mrs. Albe.'tis. 



