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NATURE STUDY. 
through a long line of creatures and ages of time, into the 
wonderfully sensitive human ear, which can distinguish 
the tones and even the delicate over-tones caused by the 
musical vibrations of a string o: an organ pipe. But we are 
wandering off to the idea of development again. What 
is of most interest just now is that strong foot, and the 
strange way the clam walks through the sand. Besides, 
here are “ skippers,” actually walkihg on the water with¬ 
out wetting their feet. But that must make another 
story. 
Wanted : To complete set of New Hampshire Experi¬ 
ment Station bulletins, bul. no. 13 ; also reports, 3d, 4th, 
5th and 6th ; also part 2, Tuckerman’s Synopsis of N. A. 
Eichens; Journal of Mycology, vol. 1, or nos. 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 
10 and 11. T J. Fitzpatrick, Box 1497, Iowa City, 
Iowa. 
Revelation. 
BY FREDERICK W. BATCHELDER. 
In the soul’s garden land God plants betimes 
A holy seed that from the tree of life 
Drops ripe and potent. In the teeming soil 
This germinates and bears at length a flower 
Fairer than daintiest petal earth can yield, 
Whose hue displays His truth, whose form His grace, 
Whose perfume breathes His love. Yet in a day, 
As God counts days, it perishes, for lo ! 
Our hot and passionate hands have wrought it ill. 
t Forbear, 0 Man, the withered stalk to prize 
Too well, lest, when that Will Divine again 
Vouchsafes a transient bloom to evolve, absorbed 
In grief for loss the old thou of the new 
Miss all the fragrance and the loveliness ! 
