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Editorial 



Our Contributors 



It is with great pride that we note the names of the contributors 

 to this number of The Review. Dr. David Starr Jordan, the 

 intellectual founder and long- time President of Stanford Univer- 

 sity, a man as great in science as in education and social better- 

 ment, than whom no one has written more charming nature 

 stories, has given us an account of his garden and its tenants. 

 Douglas Houghton Campbell is perhaps more than any other 

 American a world-botanist for there are few comers of this old 

 earth in which he has not personally studied and collected the 

 flora and his contributions to science make voliimes of great 

 importance. His garden on a hillside above Stanford University 

 is one of the beauty spots of that delectable institution. John 

 Casper Branner who followed Dr. Jordan as President of Stanford 

 University is a geologist of the two Americas. His writings on 

 the Geology of Brazil as well as of the United States have placed 

 him among the foremost geologists of the world and yet he unbends 

 for The Review with this charming Armadillo story. Albert W. 

 Smith, for many years at the head of the Mechanical Engineering 

 College of Stanford, later Dean of Sibley College at Cornell, and 

 at present Acting President of Cornell University, whose gift for 

 poetry has added greatly to the happiness and cheer of his friends, 

 has given us two very characteristic poems, one full of appreciation 

 of beauty and the other of delightful humor. Julia Ellen Rogers, 

 whose Tree Book and Shell Book and other nature volumes are 

 in use in every nature library in our country gives us a glimpse of 

 springtime in the California desert. Iren^ Hardy whose eyes saw 

 so comprehendingly and whose spirit comprehended so perfectly 

 what she saw still writes as exquisitely as ever of the birds and the 

 flowers although for many years she has been blind. She is a living 



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