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h Norton edited a hitherto unknown manuscript of the poet Gray's on natural history, with admirable illustrations taken from the original book, seeming almost incredibly accurate from any but a professional naturalist, the book being entitled, The Poet Gray as a Naturalist with Selections from His Notes on the Systema Naturae of Linnaeus with Facsimiles of Some of his Drawings. In the Charles Eliot Norton number of the Harvard graduates' magazine commemorating his eightieth birthday, Professor Palmer, with that singular felicity which characterizes him, says of Norton: He has been an epitome of the world's best thought brought to our own doors and opened for our daily use. Edith Wharton with equal felicity writes from Norton's well-known dwelling at Ashfield, whose very name, High Pasture, gives a signal for what follows: Come up — come up; in the dim vale below The autumn mist muffles the fading trees, But on this keen hill-pasture, though the breeze Has stretched the thwart boug