36 



{Mr mama tiwA Wool Sobs) (I wish mine had) 



WOOLENS will not shrink U 



WOOL SOAP 



li owl In the laundry. Wool Soap u delicate and 

 refreshing for balli purposes. The best clcanaer. 



Jluy a bar at your dtmltr't. 

 Raworth, Schcidd* & Co., Makers, Chicago. 



II Chatham St., Boston. 88 Leonard St., New Torlt. 



VERY NOTABLE HERBARIUM. 



Possibilities of Systematic 

 Work Aptly Illustrated. 



jtv Collection of the Willi Flowers, 

 Trees and Shrubs Xanied in Stay's 

 Manual— The Development of Seed- 

 lings Shown— A. Hobby Fruitful In 

 Valuable Results. 



The following out of sclentlilo pursuits 

 fcy men whose ordinary occupation 1b In 

 other channels o£ life 1b far more gen- 

 eral than Is realized by the public at 

 large. Business and professional men fre- 

 quently turn to these scientific studies aa 

 a relaxation from their usual occupation, 

 and the fact that their work is looked 

 upon as a recreation often enables them 

 to give to the world results which they 

 •would not secure under other circum- 

 stances. 



One of the best Illustrations of the truth 

 of this statement was met with a few 

 evenings ago by a Boston Herald man In 

 a pleasant residence on a quiet street In 

 Cambridge. He had called upon Mr. Wal- 

 ter Deane, a gentleman whose profes- 

 sional occupation during the last 20 years 

 has been In the educational Uno, but who 

 has, despite the demands made upon his 

 time and strength In his usual work, 

 Crone far toward completing a collection 

 of the plants of the section of the Unit- 

 ed States treated In Gray's Manual This 

 dlBtrlct reaches from Canada on the north 

 to the North Carolina line on the south, 

 and from the Atlantic east to the 100th 

 meridian west. He also has many speci- 

 mens from the far West and from Eu- 

 rope. This vast territory, with Its almost 

 Innumerable wild flowers, trees and 

 shrubs, would seem to be a sufficient Held 

 for a thoroughly organized Institution de- 

 voted to botany, but In some ways Mr. 

 Deane has exhausted Its possibilities, and 

 Included in his selection complete exam- 

 ples of certain genera which have been 

 the object of persistent study by the moat 

 eminent botanists. 

 The labor Incidental to making such a 

 v collection as he possesses seems almost 



\ft beyond the possibilities of a man so con- 

 Z^"* stantly engaged as he has been for the 



Klast 20 years. His collection Includes over 

 4000 species and varieties ot plants, and 

 IJL_ Its preparation has Involved the poisoning. 



mounting and distributing of from twen- 



Vty to twenty-five thousand botanical spec- 

 imens, as well as the work incidental to 

 making collections In the fields for many 

 ^ years, 



V *Q This collection ta In general arranged 

 \ upon the plan followed in all botanical 

 eJ museums, but the neatness, care and taste 

 •v T shown In the arrangement of the speel- 

 INJ mens all give evidence that this has been 



V Is a labor of love on the part of the gentle- 

 * man who has prepared them. To those 



unfamiliar with such matters the ability 

 rv i to transform a floating weed from the 

 V\l oozy bed of a pond to the leaves of a eol- 



V * lection such as this and maintain Its In- 



tegrity so that the smallest root and feeler 

 is distinctly shown tignlnst the white pa- 

 per and permanently fixed to It, la with 

 dlfflculty understood. 



Mr. Deane's particular pride in this col- 

 lection is his almost complete exhibition 

 of the genus Carex, within the limits of 

 the Gray manual, itichiain,- aboutt:« speci- 

 mens and To varieties, all rluly authenti- 

 cated by Trof. H. Bailey of Cornell 

 University, the well known authority In 

 regard to this genus. He also possesses a 

 complete fern collection of the district in 

 which he has worked, ami the whole col- 

 lection had been mode with a view not 

 only to securing a single specimen of a 

 species, but rather to show it in all Its 

 varying forms and its Biographical dis- 

 tribution. It is very gratifying to know 

 that Mr. Deane has been the recipient of 

 many courtesies from the heads of the 

 ngricultural department at Washington, 

 and If the vast resources of the govern- 

 ment In this direction could always be as 

 Judiciously used as they have been by Mr. 

 Deane. the public's money would be wise- 

 ly expended. 



With the Intelligence of such men and 

 the devotion whlrh they show In their pur- 

 suit (even If It be In the nature of a hob- 

 by!, science is advanced and the people 

 benefited. The extended correspondence 

 conducted by Mr. Deane In this pursuit 

 has brought him In contact with all the 

 leading botanists of the country, and his 

 collection has been greatly enriched by 

 the constant exchange of specimens 

 through this acquaintance. 



One branch of the collection has a pe- 

 culiar fascination, even to those most un- 

 familiar with botanical subjects. This is 

 devoted to an exhiblton of some 60 species 

 of seedlings. This line of work has occu- 

 pied much of Mr. Deane's leisure, during 

 the past summer, and on Individual 

 sheets In the folios belonging to this de- 

 partment of his collection will be found 

 the seedling shown in specimens from the 

 time it first puts Its head above the 

 ground until it is fully developed in fruit 

 or flower. These illustrations, as. indeed, 

 nil of the collection, are mounted with 



can be accurately traced throughout Its 

 entire growth. 



Mr. Deane has not been content in ac- 

 cepting speeimens which are not thor- 

 oughly authenticated, and ti e well known 

 names of Gray. Watson, Bebh, Bailey, 

 Robinson, Coulter. Hose, Davenport, and 

 the like. Which are found as authorities 

 on the descriptive cards attached to each 

 sheet of the collection, bear evidence of 

 the pains he has taken to Insure the ac- 

 curacy of his nomenclature. 



As a study of cause and effect, It was 

 quite interesting to note the neatly pre- 

 pared specimens and the tools used In 

 their preparation. The glue pot and brush 

 might have been used by a cabinet maker 

 in repairing large pieces of furniture, 

 but Mr. Deane asserted that the brush 

 and other conveniences used could not be 

 better, and the evidence they bore of old 

 acquaintance gave a substantial indorse- 

 ment to his statement. 



Mr. Deane has not confined himself en- 

 tirely to the collection of botanical speci- 

 mens, but has extended his hobby to In- 

 clude photographs of the distinguished 

 botanists of the world as well as auto- 

 graph letters from the same. His photo- 

 graph collection is numbered by hundreds, 

 apd each card is Indorsed with an account 

 of its origin, by whom and where taken. 



fame, and the indorsements show that 

 Mr. Deane has enjoyed the acquaintance 

 and friendship of many of the master 

 minds of the ("lay in the science which he 

 loves so well. The autographs collected by 

 Mr. Deane are worthy of especial men- 

 tion, and their perusal Indicates that he 

 has enjoyed exceptional advantages ta hiB 

 correspondence. 



It will be seen from all these facts that, 

 ■while Mr. Deane has been a busy man 

 during his life, he has made his efforts of 

 value to himself as well as of future 

 profit to the public. 



The things they say and the 

 things they do in the suburbs. 

 Reported every day in The 

 Boston Evening Herald. 



AN ILLUSTRIOUS N&MB. 



John Alden the 9th is living in John 

 Alden's house at Duxbury. which was 

 built In 1650, and In which the great 

 John Alden lived during the latter part 

 ot his life. The ninth John Alden Is In 

 direct descent from the famous magis- 

 trate of Plymouth colony. j_ 



J 



I 



