190 KANSAS CITY REVIEW OF SCIENCE. 
A fine oil-painting of General Manuel Armijo, the last governor of New Mex- 
ico under the Mexican Government, representing him life-size and in full dress as 
civil and military governor of New Mexico, the only such picture extant, now in 
possession of Hon. Santiago Baca, at Albuquerque. 
Major Miller heard of numerous other objects in other parts of southern New 
Mexico, worthy of place at the exposition, but could not then go to where they 
are. We trust his committee will arrange to obtain them. Professor Longuemare 
will bring with him, besides, an immense amount of ores from the Socorro County 
mines, his collection of native precious stones in the rough, and many curious 
articles found among the ruins of the ancient people of New Mexico. 
BOTANY. 
AN ESTHETIC HOUR WITH MY HERBARIUM. 
MARY E. HOLMES. 
" Ye field-flowers ! the gardens eclipse you, 'tis true, 
Yet, wildlings of Nature, I dote upon you ; 
I love you for lulling me back into dreams 
Of the blue Highland mountains, and echoing streams. 
Not a pastoral song has a pleasanter tune 
Than ye speak to my heart, little wildlings of June. 
What landscapes I read in the primrose's looks, 
And what pictures of pebbled and minnowy brooks 
In the vetches that tangled the shore : 
Earth's cultureless buds! to my heart you are dear! " 
Thus sang the British poet and satirist, Thomas Campbell, 'ere the objects of 
his youthful enthusiasm had faded away, and his harp had been unstrung by 
domestic affliction. These wildwood tokens in my herbarium, these tassels in 
their tawny bloom, refresh one with the song of April brooks, and I greet them 
with a gladder welcome than when from the woodland shadows, the wild gardens 
of the prairie, or from the sheltering rock I plucked them. 
This little plant, with its finely cut leaves, pearly white petals, and purplish 
brown anthers, reminds me of many a childhood's ramble on the Western Reserve. 
It is the Erigenia bulbosa — Daughter of Spring — is its fanciful name, and from this 
folio sheet, it suggests the carol of the robin and the song of the blue-bird as dis- 
tinctly as they trilled a dozen years ago. Here is the downy Wind-Flower 
Anemone patens, var. Fulsatilliana, "little gosling" the prairie children call it, — a 
sturdy youth. 
