FOR THE PUPIL
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Burlington: in Vermont.
Concord and Middleboro: in Massachusetts.
Zadoc Thompson: a Vermont naturalist.
D. Henry Thoreau: better known as Henry D. Thoreau; author of “Walden,” etc.
J. W. P. Jenks: for many years head of Pierce Academy, Middleboro, and later Professor of Agricultural Zoölogy in Brown University.
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Contributions: used in place of the whole name: Go yourself into the public library and read this and look at the four large volumes.
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spatter-docks: yellow pond-lily (Nuphar advena).
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dinosaurian: one of the fossil reptile monsters of the Mesozoic, or “middle,” period of the earth’s history, before the age of man.