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THUS TALLBT n^^TTTIR^LIST. 
To the Song Sparrow. 
EY OLIVER DON DAVIE, COLUMBUS, OHIO* 
Thou gay little sparrow, why cease thy sweet 
song? 
Tho' the dark shades of evening come o'er 
us, 
I know it is sweet, tho' its not very long, 
Sing on and I'll join in the chorus. 
Is thy mate in the thicket, hy the side of yon 
lea? 
Is her little heart troubled with care? 
Is she tired of the song so pleasing to me, 
That breaks on the calm evening air. 
I would sing thee a song of the fair I once 
loved — 
But she rests, and I cannot complain— 
And my harp lies unstrung since the days I 
was young, 
And I never can tune it again. 
Ah! no, little sparrow; no more the sweet 
strain, 
While my bosom is troubled with care; 
While the "dark skirted night sweeps over 
til G S C 6 11 6 
While I weep' o'er the grave of my fair. 
The pow T ers far above must dwell in thy 
song, 
the cabinets. With this liberal endowment, 
the trustees proceeded to put m action the 
wishes of the donor. They contracted with 
Professor Ward to make the cabinets— a 
work for which he was by long experience 
pre-eminently fitted. They also proceeded 
to erect the building from plans by Mr. J. R. 
Thomas, architect, of Rochester. This feuild- 
For thine is a heavenly art; 
To warble the green leafy woodlands among 
And touch the lone wanderer's heart. 
—[Sunday Capital. 
THE LEWIS BROOKS MUSEUM OF 
NATURAL SCIENCE. 
The curriculum of the University of Vir- 
ginia, at Charlotteville, so full and well-bal- 
anced in all other respects, has until last 
year been somewhat deficent in the depart- 
ment of natural sciences. Now this is 
changed, and to-day it stands more richly 
endowed in this respect than any other insti- 
tution in the South 
its educational ap- 
pliances is the gift of 
a gentl eman from the 
North — Mr. Lewis 
Brooks of Rochester, 
N. Y. In the year 
1875 Mr. Brooks had 
presented to Wash- 
ington and Lee Uni- 
versity of Lexington, 
Va., cabinets of nat- 
ural science to the 
value of $10,000, with 
a further cash gift of 
$15,000. These do- 
nations were made 
through his friend, 
Professor Henry A. 
Ward, who made the 
cabinets and trans- 
ferred them and the 
money-gift with the 
simple statement 
that they came from 
a "Northern friend 
of Southern educa- 
tion." Again in the 
Spring of 1876, Mr. 
Brooks sent Profes- 
sor Ward to the 
trustees of the Uni- 
versity to offer large 
cabinets of mineral- 
ogy, geology and 
zoology, of a com- 
bined value of $35,- 
000, upon the sole 
condition that they 
should supply suita- 
ble rooms and cases 
for storing and dis- 
playing the same. A 
little later, Mr. 
Brooks sent the 
trustees in the same 
secret manner a fur- 
ther sum of $31,000, 
with which to erect 
a building to contain 
This great addition 
PROF. HEA'KY A. WARD, ROCHESTER, N. Y. 
ing is of the Italian Renaissance style of ar- 
chitecture, with modern adaptations. It is 
in the general form of an oblong square, with 
entrance-way pavilion at centre of east front 
and a pavilion at each extreme end on north 
and south fronts. The mean height of the 
THE LEWIS BROOKS MUSEUM AT THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA, IN CHARLOTTEVILLE, VIR. 
building is 75 feet, and consists of a high 
basement, with a 25-foot double story imme- 
diately above, and then a 19-foot story with 
a high attic over all. The basement to top- 
of first story, together with the entrance- 
way, is constructed of Richmond granite. 
The walls above are of pressed brick, with 
heavy trimmings above windows and doors,, 
of cream-colored freestone from Ohio. Each 
of the principal key tones which stand prom- 
inently carved into the head of some large- 
animal, as lion, bear, walrus, bison, rhino- 
ceros, etc., the whole presenting a graphic 
appearance and in conformity with the pur- 
pose of the building as a museum. On the 
wide stone belting which extends around the 
entire building between the two principal 
stories are cut, in large letters of high relief,, 
the names of renowned scientists in the sev- 
eral fields or studies of nature— Aristotle,. 
Pliuv, Linna3us, Cuvier, St. Hilaire, Werner, 
Humboldt, De Candolle, Audubon, Agassis, 
Hall, Owen, Lyell, Dana, Gray, Rogers, Dar- 
win and Huxley. Over the main entrance- 
way a tablet of the finest marble, bearing the 
inscription, " Lewis Brooks Hall of [Natural 
Science," has been placed. A handsome 
flight of massive granite steps at the east end 
of the building leads up between columns of 
Scotch granite, with carved capitals, to the 
outer door, which opens into the spacious 
vestibule. Here are entrances to the lower 
hall of mineralogy and geology, and broad 
stairs ascending to the upper hall of zoology 
and botany. Below is the high basement,, 
serving for work-rooms of all kinds. The 
lower hall— twenty-five feet high— is bor- 
dered on either side by alcove cases, in which 
are arranged on neat blocks and with hand- 
some printed labels, specimens of fossils of 
every class of animals and plants. The 
smaller specimens are within the cases and 
protected by glass, while the tops of the cases 
are covered with large slabs or other bulky 
specimens. Here is a full procession of life 
through the ages; starting with the earliest 
animals of the Silurian, and leading along up 
in the series and 
down through time, 
to the advent of man 
who, while the most 
modern of all, has 
still lent his remains- 
to the series in a cast 
of the famous fossil, 
man of Guadoloupe- 
Each case is made 
to represent a dis- 
tinct geological per- 
iod. First, there is 
the presence of the- 
antiquely - fashioned 
fauna of the Silurian 
— aworldof mollusks- 
coralsand Crustacea. 
Ail are invertebrate 
corals and corallines- 
— the fairy architec- 
ture of little polyps, 
crinoids, trilobites 
and tube-like ortho- 
ceratites. A little 
further on is the De- 
vonian — the old red 
sandstone of Hugh 
Miller, alongside of 
his favorite holopty- 
chius and eephalas- 
pis. It was the per- 
iod when ganoidal 
fishes were thrown 
into the world with 
amazing-prodigality ; 
awkward, finny 
tribes -buckle-head- 
ed, mailed and rep- 
tilian, then the high- 
est type of living 
creatures. Another 
stride and the dingy 
Carboniferous era is 
reached. Here are 
relics of the rank, 
flowerless vegetation 
which flourishes un- 
der the warm steam- 
