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built the Mallett reduction works at Canon, which have been fairly successful. 

 He has been a contributor to several scientific magazines as well. 



Just at this time an old gentleman, Prof. Waitz, of Rosita, is doing some 

 work that is attracting much attention. It is a process for separating low-grade 

 ores and saving much of the ore that has hitherto been wasted. If the experiment 

 succeeds, it will be of incalculable value to Custer, Fremont and some of the low- 

 grade counties. And at any rate he deserves notice for the labor and experi- 

 ments he has put upon his scheme. 



These are but few of the scientists of the State of Colorado ; to name them 

 all, and their works, would be beyond the scope of a magazine article and 

 beyond my powers as a delineator. As I said in the commencement of this 

 article, the majority are metallurgists ; I do not remember of any leading astron- 

 omers or meteorologists, other than those connected with the Signal Service at 

 Denver and Pike's Peak. 



The Hayden survey gave an additional impetus to the cause of science in the 

 State ; and the State Historical Association encourages it in its limited way, for it 

 is not very large or old. A hall in the larger places might be secured, and 

 courses of free lectures given with great profit ; and more copies of the Review, 

 and journals of its class, taken throughout the State than are now. But Colorado 

 is young and we may hope much for her. 



The intelligent women of the State have sustained a loss in the death of Mrs. 

 M. A. Maxwell, whose interesting exhibit of birds and animals at the Centennial 

 is vivid in the minds of many who admired her for her devotion to the cause 

 of science and the difficulties under which she labored. She made for herself an 

 honest fame ; and not her sex alone, but all who had heard of her skill, feel that 

 her loss is a grave one. 



A CHRYSALIS. 



BY T. BERRY SMITH. 



Only a chrysalis ! 

 A seeming lifeless thing — a pulseless form ! 

 No beauty there, you say ; no current warm 

 Goes bounding on with swift vivific charm ! 



Is it only this ? 

 A broken case wherein life used to thrill — 

 An empty cask no longer fit to fill — 

 Or does it hold a being living still ? 



Await a while and see. 

 And while we wait a change advancing fast, 

 We'll hie away and treat the wondrous past ; 

 In memory's realms voluminously vast 



We'll find out what it be. 



