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many a word of advice and encouragement was given, and many a question 

 was answered. 



In that year of 1800 there hved close by, on the clififs overlooking Gray's 

 Ferry, Dr. Benjamin Say, whose little son Thomas, then a boy of thirteen, 

 and later a naturalist of note, carried to Bartram all the curious specimens 

 that he chanced to find on his rambles. Dr. B. S. Barton, the young pro- 

 fessor of botany at the University of Pennsylvania, also came to him for 

 assistance; while up at Milestown, a short distance north of the city, lived 

 a young Scotch schoolmaster, Alexander Wilson by name, who was then 

 about to take the school at Gray's Ferry, and to make the acquaintance of 

 Bartram, under whose guidance he was soon to become one of the most 

 famous ornithologists that our country has ever produced. 



In the development of all these men, and in others as well, much is to 

 be attributed to the influence of William Bartram; and, when we form our 

 judgment of his worth, we must look, as in the case of other modest men, 

 beyond the work which he accomplished himself and consider also that 

 which he inspired in others. 



SPOTTED SANDPIPER ON NEST 

 Photographed from nature by R. H. Beebe, Arcade, N. Y. 



