Appreciations of Mr. Long and his Work 
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their characters, customs, and instincts. He is the 
friend of beast and bird and his methods of observa- 
tion are as gentle as they are searching; he has, 
moreover, that spirit of patient reverence, that ardent 
interest without which the scientific investigator is a 
mere Dryasdust. 
From The Boston Herald, August 9, 1903 
ae BS TEALING away to watch 
. Wat G the things that lived in the 
qe woods formed the supreme 
eA Wi. delight of Dr. Long’schildhood,and 
HT ~ before he was twenty he had filled 
A A\ | a dozen notebooks with curious, 
hitherto unrecorded habits of ani- 
mals, — not with any intention of 
future use, however, or of writing 
on nature, for he was, and is still, 
intent upon books of an entirely 
different order. But while at 
Andover the crass ignorance of 
certain nature articles aroused his 
determination to write something 
on animals which should simply 
tell the truth. 
He prepared five articles, largely 
in fun, which, to his surprise, found 
ready acceptance and yielded a 
check of astounding proportions. 
Requests for book material fol- 
lowed, which he has since supplied at the rate of one 
or two books a year. 
Dr. Long is nature’s true lover before he is her his- 
torian. He never seeks exact facts, never studies con- 
sciously. As he puts it, “I just love her, give myself 
wholly to her influence, expect nothing —then she 
gives everything.” All his studies are made from life. 
In summer, and frequently in winter, he goes deep into 
the wilderness of Maine or of Canada, generally in 
Newfoundland, where he follows the animals continu- 
ally, to see how they live and what they do. Often he 
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