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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 6., chapter 2 (search)
was due the inspiration that led to the making of the book. No sooner was one task completed than another was already planned and well started. His Typical Elms was scarcely before the public when his notes show that observations had for some time been recorded for his last and greatest work, Handbook of the Trees of New England, which he also brought out in collaboration with Mr. Henry Brooks. This is fully illustrated with plates carefully prepared from living specimens by Mrs. Elizabeth Gleason Bigelow of Medford. The entire range of our native trees is given in detail with illustrations of buds, leaves, flowers and fruit. The text was prepared with great pains; every part was carefully scrutinized, revised many times after being submitted to the best experts on the subject, until the final product is a book accurate in almost every particular, and one admirably adapted to the use intended. His love for nature led him to spend his summer vacations in places where he could
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 15., Literary Medford. (search)
ern nature books, taught one of the public schools of Medford for several years. Lorin Low Dame, whose quickening power guided the high school for twenty-seven years, spent his leisure in adding to the world's knowledge of flowers and trees. The Flora of Middlesex County, Typical Elms and Other Trees of Massachusetts and the Hand-book of the Trees of New England, with Ranges throughout the United States and Canada, are valuable monuments to his exact observation and industry. Elizabeth Gleason Bigelow, a pupil, made many careful drawings to illustrate the Hand-book of Trees. Rosewell B. Lawrence has written a complete handbook of the Middlesex Fells, with maps; and a series of letters of travel, Egypt and the Holy Land. The Rev. Bradley Gilman, a high school graduate of 1875, now a Unitarian clergyman, is the author of From a Parsonage Porch, Back to the Soil, Roland Carnaquay, and juvenile stories under the name of Walter Wentworth. Helen Tilden Wild, who has done such