for a successful harvest. His predictions generally have been as- 

 tonishingly verified, and acceding to our request, he prepared for 

 us the article which we have the pleasure of presenting to the atten- 

 tion of our readers in this Bulletin. 



By the death of Theodore Roosevelt, Science has lost from her 

 ranks a Paladin, a strenuous champion for the investigation of many 

 paradoxical and enigmatical problems in Biology which had been an 

 element of acrimonious controversy, many of which received from 

 him an accepted interpretation. 



As an explorer, he discovered and placed upon the World's maps, 

 mountains, valleys and rivers heretofore unknown, and in the more 

 restricted field of Zoology, he gave new interest to old and young 

 by his relations of the habits and customs of the wild life of man 

 and beast in their heterogeneous acclimatization. 



His battles against the conscienceless trapper and hunter, have 

 prevented the extermination of the milder denizens of the field and 

 forest and the rare and beautiful bird-life which is such a joy to us 

 in the episodes of our existence. 



But first, and infinitely in advance of the leading of all others 

 in this world, he was the perfect and practical model for us in the 

 inculcation of justice, honor and purity in our children and implant- 

 ing in them that zeal for devout patriotism and invincible love of 

 country which were the predominent and adamantine principles of 

 his being. 



He outranked all in that class of grand Exemplars who make 

 their own abilities the sole measure of what is fit. 



As the profound Academician, the successful Rancher, the Legis- 

 lator and Champion for uprightness in political contests, the Leader 

 who demanded honest citizenship from those who fled to us from 

 foreign oppression, the Police Commissioner, the valiant Soldier, the 

 Governor and the President who gave his country an assertive dignity, 

 prestige, influence and might such as it never before had occupied, 

 he finds no peer in the history of the past. 



His genius, like the nobility of Washington, will gleam a beacon 

 of honor, hope and safety through all the ages. 



"He was a man, take him for all in all, 

 I shall not look upon his like again." 



The danger of contagion and the visitation of sorrow with which 

 this city has been afflicted during the last six months by reason of 

 the dreadful epidemic so generally prevailing, induced our municipal 

 authorities to impose a prohibition of all public assemblies, and 



