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aside. The sight of a new specimen always 
affected her, as the smell of alcohol is said to affect 
an inebriate, and she would sacrifice any amount 
of personal comfort, and put forth any degree of 
extra effort to obtain and preserve it. After 
numerous family consultations it was decided 
that, instead of giving up what she had done, she 
should attempt an enterprise having a much more 
extensive aim than simply the preservation of the 
fauna of her chosen State. 
Her observations of the differences made in 
animal life, by climate and surroundings, had 
long made her wish for some museum, which, 
from its arrangement and classification, should 
enable them to be studied with greater ease and 
accuracy than was then possible. 
She now resolved to attempt the founding of 
an institution that should meet this demand. 
Its specimens, if artistically mounted and ar- 
ranged, would interest the young, and awaken in 
them a love for a culture within the reach of all, 
in its nature wholesome and refining. She also 
hoped that it might be of service to those scien- 
tists who are interested in the solution of prob- 
lems that await, in suspended judgment, the 
verdict of greater knowledge than the world now 
has. She trusted that, when she should so far 
succeed as to make the utility and practicability 
of her design apparent, she would receive the 
