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IN WISCONSIN. 
weapons and went out on a crusade against the 
animal kingdom. 
On the contrary, she is a wee, modest, tender- 
hearted woman, lacking one inch of five feet in 
height, and “as shy as one of her own weasels ! ” 
She simply has a passion, not unknown in the* 
history of science, for all living creatures — an 
irresistible desire to study their habits and rela- 
tions, together with a taste for the expression of 
beauty in form, that would have made her a 
sculptor had she been placed in circumstances to 
have cultivated it. 
She began the practice of an art so unusual for 
a woman as taxidermy, then, in the following 
manner : 
After a residence of three years in Colorado 
during its earliest settlement, she was recalled to 
Wisconsin by the serious illness of her mother. 
She found her sisters, whom she had left as little 
girls, young ladies in school. The institution 
they were attending was a new one, with little in* 
its possession save unlimited hope for the future. 
In this the girls owned large investments ! 
They were charmed with their studies, and 
enthusiastic admirers of their teachers, and Mrs. 
Maxwell was soon one with them in all their 
plans and interests. 
Professor Hobart, the principal of their school, 
was very fond of the natural sciences, and was 
