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SALE OF SPECIMENS. 
Before the summer of 1870 was over, her col- 
® lection had grown to such proportions as to 
have attracted the attention of the leading men 
in the Territory, and she received an offer of a* 
pass to St Louis and return, with transportation 
for it thither if she wished, if she would consent 
to arrange it in Denver for the Territorial Fair. 
This she felt obliged to accept, as it became apj 
parent that she must make a disposal of all her 
mounted specimens. Through adverse business 
fortunes, the finances of the family were in a 
straitened condition. Her utmost sacrifices, with 
those of her husband, were needed to rescue some 
fragments from the wreck. Yet, so great was her 
attachment to her specimens, so enthusiastic had 
been her desire that each one should be of perma- 
nent good to natural history, that it was with the 
bitterest pain she thought of their disposal. She 
had given them all an artist’s love for his work, 
and his patient care and labor; aside from that, 
many had cost her great exposure and suffering, 
and many, from other associations, were very 
dear to her. But there was no alternative, and 
after vexations and anxieties at St. Louis, which 
we will not recount, they became, for a sum in- 
significant compared with their cost to her, the 
property of Shaw’s Garden, in that city. 
