“Other boys will leave this Gunnery and we hope win as distinguished laurels as did Gibson; for is it not, as James Russell Lowell has said of Harvard, all but impossible to rub up against these walls without taking away something that no other institution can give? But be this as it may, it is not probable that there will soon be found among the Alumni a man of such rare versatility. The combination of his gifts has been recognized far beyond the confines of this little hamlet; but because it was here that he began his life’s work, here ended it, here that he made his home, and here that the mortal part of him lies near us, it seems particularly appropriate we should erect an enduring memorial to his worth. For how few of us who have dipped into his books or followed him in our walks but can repeat the words of the blind man of old, who in the ecstasy of a new vision cried ‘Whereas I was blind now I see.’” WILLIAM HAMILTON GIBSON Who Nature loves by Nature is beloved. She makes him gentle, and she keeps him fair; By woods and waters where her treasures are Within his hand she lays a hand ungloved. For him no stream is stopped, no mountain moved, No bird-song hushed, nor any branch made bare; Useless the archer’s shaft, the fowler’s snare; Nor for his feet is any pathway grooved. So Gibson lived and wrote, and drew and dreamed, Whose sun too early dropped adown the west, Whose every day with purest visions teemed, That gave another’s day a fresher zest; And like dear Nature’s self he often seemed To draw no lines twixt labor, play and rest. ROSSITER JOHNSON. BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE WRITINGS OF WILLIAM HAMILTON GIBSON “The Complete American Trapper.” New York. James Miller, 1876. Republished in 1878 by Bradley & Co. Republished in 1880 by Harper and Brothers, under the title, “Camp Life in the Woods, and the Tricks of Trapping and Trap-Making.” “Pastoral Days; or, Memories of a New England Year.” New York. Harper and Brothers, 1880. “Highways and Byways; or, Saunterings in New England.” New York. Harper and Brothers, 1882. “Happy Hunting Grounds: A Tribute to the Woods and Fields.” New York. Harper and Brothers, 1886. “Strolls by Starlight and Sunshine.” New York. Harper and Brothers, 1890. “Sharp Eyes: A Rambler’s Calendar of Fifty-two Weeks among Insects, Birds and Flowers.” New York. Harper and Brothers, 1891. “Our Edible Mushrooms and Toadstools and How to Distinguish Them.” New York. Harper and Brothers, 1895. “Eye Spy: Afield with Nature among Flowers and Animate Things.” New York. Harper and Brothers, 1897. “My Studio Neighbors.” New York. Harper and Brothers, 1897. NOTE