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RELUCTANT CONSENT. 
museum enterprise was still very precarious, as 
Colorado was not yet either sufficiently popu- 
lous or wealthy to sustain an institution of its 
kind, even though she continued to give it all 
her time, energy and means. Should she ex- 
hibit her collection, and then sell it, some one else 
might continue her effort for comparative science 
in some other place. 
At least she would be free to devote herself to 
some branch of her favorite study which should 
involve less exhaustive labor and expense. At 
length she reluctantly consented. However, in 
giving up her museum, she did not surrender 
the hope that she might be able, at some future 
time, to repay, by contributions to their knowl- 
edge of the natural history of their State, the great 
kindness of the many in Colorado, who had as- 
sisted her, either by word or deed, in forming her 
collection. Whether realizing this hope or not, 
her deepest gratitude will always be theirs. 
We forbear to mention all the hurry and worry 
and work of the weeks that preceded her de- 
parture from Denver. It is enough that one 
morning she found herself and her docile mena- 
gerie set down in an unfinished building on the 
Centennial grounds belonging to the common- 
wealths of Kansas and Colorado combined, and 
was told that one side of one wing could be occu- 
pied by her, as soon as the wind and rain could 
