"To His Deab Little Friends." 



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This list of flowers and trees was the last work of Prof. 

 Howard Shriver, who died on the 15th of February, 1901. 

 The proof sheets came to him during his illness. He 

 made an effort to revise them, hut was compelled to desist 

 and abandoned the work only after he had exhausted his 

 little remaining strength. The promise of his friends to 

 see that the list was properly corrected and published 

 reassured him; he peacefully fell asleep. His life was 

 full of incidents of a most exciting character, but he came 

 through the long struggle of seventy-six years with a soul 

 as pure as an infant's and a mind attuned to the harmony 

 of the Universe. He loved nature and all it taught. Its 

 lessons were his life food. In all the varying phenomena 

 around him, he was able to see and know that unity and 

 rhythmic energy underlie all natural manifestations. To 

 him the flower- and fields were full of poetry. The moun- 

 tains and stream- were sermons of life and beauty. He 

 was optimistic and tried to give everyone who came in 

 contact with him, a taste of the joy and blessing that 

 knowledge brings. He sowed the seeds of inquiry in the 

 fruitful soil of children's minds and though his voice is 

 stilled and his hands at rest, his work lives. His life 

 influence is yet potent ; what its full fruitage will be, only 

 ^,. the coming years can tell. The friends who have tried to 

 revise the following pages apologize for the errors which 

 still remain. Fearing to alter lest they might destroy, 



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