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elers enterln^^ and leaving Saco. Tt can then receive tlie 

 visits and coutribntions of many of our summer visitors. 



In one case of valuables will be a few of our Maine 

 •emeralds, also a few of the pearls from the Maine coast, 

 :simi]ar to the one sold years ago to the Empress Eugenie 

 for fifteen hundred dollars. Nearby, in the mineralogi- 

 •cal section, will be very appropriately placed a bust of 

 Professor Cleveland, of Bowdoin College, "the father of 

 American minerahjgy." Opposite, among the birds, 

 will be the familiar portrait of Audubon, a never failing 

 reminder of the skill and deftness of one of our number, 

 the artist. 



In the botanical department Maine's celebrated lady 

 botanist will be represented by her portrait and by many 

 of her beautiful water-color paintings of Maine wild flow- 

 -ers. The Maine plant, Pedicularis Pui'hishae, named 

 after her, will be there, the first pknt ever named in hon- 

 or of a woman in America ■ 



A bust of the immortal Maine poet, Longfellow will 

 meet the gaze of the visitor and remind him of the first 

 American whose imperishable fame has won for him a 

 place beside England's worthies in Westminster Abbey. 



And so I might go on with suggestions and specu- 

 lations did time permit. 



In conclusion it may be asked : "Until this future is 

 realized, upon what should the members of York Insti- 

 tute chiefly rely?" Au incident will furnish a good an- 

 swer, in lieu of a better one. 



While other peoples wore a foreign yoke, 



And prostrate lay beneath the conqueror's feet ; 



The Swiss, true scions of an ancient stock, 



Did their own freedom steadfastly maintain, 



And never bowed the knee to any prince, 



But freely chose the Roman Emperor's sheltering shield. 



