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tific research was born and grew and finally came to rich 

 fruition. It is a long cry from the boy, living and working 

 on the farm in the summer, and studying at the little red 

 country school during the wintei" terms; collecting, weighing, 

 measuring and describing in his notebook such birds as he 

 could secure, giving them provisional names of his own, and 

 never dreaming that they all had names both English arid 

 Latin; finding a new world in the borrowed copy of the 

 Brewer edition of Wilson's ''American Ornithology"; build- 

 ing up a little ''museum," the sale of which to Wilbraham 

 Academy later helped to solve the problem of his tuition 

 there; and at length, in his contact with Agassiz, at the 

 Lawrence Scientific School, at Cambridge, finding the first 

 real encouragement and guidance that his aspiring mind 

 and heart had received. 



Besides his other handicaps, Dr. Allen has had that very 

 severe one of ill health. But in spite of all, he has earned pre- 

 eminence in his profession and a place in the hearts of his 

 associates such as is only rarel}^ attained. We can, with 

 unusual appropriateness, congratulate him on the richness 

 of his years. And it is with deep earnestness that we hope for 

 his continued cherished affiliation with us. 



He who would not draggle in tliif< world should not be born 

 nto it. 



GOLDONI 



