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WILLIAM TEMPLE, American naturalist ; born near Plainfield, Ind., Dec. 1, 1854. He was for a number of years chief taxidermist of the United States National Museum , Washington, and in 1896 became director of the New York Zoölogical Park. He Zoological Park. He wrote: "Two Years in the Jungle"; "The Bufalo Hunt"; "Free Rum on the Congo"; "Taxidermy and Zoölogical Coland Zoological Collecting"; "Camp-Fires on Desert and Lava" (1908) "Our Vanishing Wild Life" (1913) ; "Wild Animal Conservation in Theory and Practice" (1914) ; etc. (1914); etc.

HORNBEAM (Carpinus Betulus, natural order Cupulifera), a small bushy tree common in Great Britain, and often used in hedges. The wood is white, tough, and hard, and is used in turnery, in turnery , for cogs of wheels, etc. The inner bark yields a yellow dye. The American hornbeam (C. americana) is a small tree sparingly diffused over the whole of the United States.

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