ICJ4 THREE KINGDOMS. 



broad enough in heart, to endow the Agassiz Associa- 

 tion as he might a collegiate chair or a private school. 

 Let each chapter and each member be like Diogenes, 

 ever peering about with lighted lantern to find this 

 man. 



But we need not wait for that. There is enough 

 we can do unaided ; and, indeed, I am inclined to 

 think that labor voluntarily expended by boys and 

 girls in building their own cabinets, and by girls in 

 decorating and caring for their assembly-rooms, is the 

 cause of the truest satisfaction and enjoyment, and is 

 also productive of the greatest interest in the weightier 

 matters of scientific study. You can see most clearly 

 through a microscope that you have worked and waited 

 for. 



If the endowment ought to come, it will come in 

 due time ; but in the meanwhile let each continue to 

 do his best where he happens to be. The way to help 

 the whole Association is to give your best attention to 

 your individual work. Let the little ones gather their 

 pebbles and their flowers. Let the elder look more 

 closely into the structure and the habits of bird, or 

 beast, or plant. Let us all be always living for the 

 truth, and striving to read in every leaf of Nature's 

 book her lesson of faith, her lesson of hope, her lesson 

 of love. 



Admirably has one of our Iowa chapters united 

 science and humanity. Organized as a society of 

 scientific workers, it has made itself also a band of 

 mercy. It has proved that, although the eye of 

 Science is keen, her heart need not be cold, and that 

 her hand, however cunning, may yet be kind. Two 

 kindred spirits were Agassiz and Audubon ; and very 

 many who, with us, have enrolled themselves under 

 the name ' Agassiz,' have also joined the Audubon 

 Society, while many others are learning regarding 



