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THE MOUNTAIN MUSEUM. 
specimens of almost every kind of living creature 
found in that region, skinning, stuffing, or in 
other ways preserving them. 
Colorado commissioned her to represent with 
this collection the fauna of its mountains and 
plains. She complied by arranging, singly, or in 
artistic groups, upon or near the miniature land- 
scape we have described, over a hundred mam- 
mals and nearly four hundred birds. Before 
leaving Colorado she had these and many other 
objects of interest gathered in a museum, an idea 
of which can be obtained from the graceful pen 
of H. H., in “ Bits of Travel at Home/’ in the 
N. Y. Independent : 
“On a corner of one of the streets in Boulder is 
a building with a narrow and somewhat rickety 
staircase leading up on the outside. At the top 
of the staircase is the sign, ‘ Museum/ 
“‘What a place to find a museum, to be sure!’ 
and ‘Museum of what?’ are the instinctive com- 
ments of the traveller at sight of this sign. The 
chances are a hundred to one that he will not go 
up the stairs, and will never give the sign a 
second thought. Yet whoever visits Boulder and 
goes away without seeing this museum loses one 
of the most interesting and characteristic things 
in Colorado. I smile to recollect how it was only 
an idle and not altogether good-natured curiosity 
which led me to visit it. Somebody had said in 
