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THE GUIDE TO NATURE. 



DAVID STARR JORDAN. 



President Leland Stanford Junior University, Cali- 



i jrnia. 



Dean of the A A Council. 



"Every fact has a meaning. It is a part 

 of the relation of cause and effect; and the 

 great students of nature are those who 

 have been able to see the fact and to look 

 behind it to the principle or law or cause of 

 which it is a visible result. I regard your 

 Association as one of the most important 

 educational institutions of this country.'' 



observers and teachers in the different 

 departments of science, and the general 

 diffusion of knowledge. 



Art. 3. The said corporation is lo- 

 cated at Sound Reach, in the town of 

 Greenwich, county of Fairfield, and 

 state of Connecticut. 



The following officers were elected for 

 the ensuing year : 



Edward F. Bigelow 

 Treasurer. 



Homer S. Cummings 



The following is the 

 Treasurer. 



1'resident and 



Corporator-: Edward F. Bigelow, 

 Sound I '.each. Conn., President and 

 Treasurer; Homer S. Cummings, Stam- 

 ford. Conn., Secretary; Walter D. Das- 

 kam, Stamford, Conn. ( >ther Trustees; 

 Marian II. Ballard, Pittsfield, Mass.; 

 Hiram E. Deats, Flemington, X. J.: Dr. 

 David Starr Jordan. Stanford Univer- 

 sity, Calif.; Dr. Leland O. Howard, 

 Washington, D. C. ; Rev. Charles Morris 

 Addison, Stamford, Conn.; Dr. George 

 Sherrill, Stamford, Conn. 



Mr. Ballard was elected Honorary 

 Vice-President; Dr. Jordan, Dean of 

 Council : Dr. Howard, Naturalist Ad- 

 viser, and Mr. Deats. Business Adviser 

 and Auditor. 



The report of the President was lis- 

 tened to with great interest, and the 

 efficient and earnest work of the Presi- 

 dent was heartily commended. It was 

 ordered that the report he embodied in 

 the minutes and published in The Guide 

 to Nature, and a request be made to the 

 newspapers of Greenwich and Stamford 

 to publish it as a matter of local interest. 



Voted to adjourn subject to the call of 

 the President. 



Homer S. Cummings, Secretary. 



Secretary. 



full Board 



of 



Leland Stanford Junior University. 

 Office of The President : 



Stanford University. Cal., 



April 5. 1910. 

 Dr. Edward F. Bigelow, 

 Sound Beach, Connecticut. 



Dear Sir: 



Permit me to say another word of 

 encouragement to the Trustees of The 

 Agassiz Association. I am sorry that 

 Connecticut is so far away from the cen- 

 ter of things that I cannot be present 

 at your meeting". I want to express 

 again my highest appreciation of your 

 good work, of its far-reaching influence 

 among the young people of the land, 

 and in favor of the desirability of cul- 

 tivating as a normal joy as well as a 

 religious duty the habit of knowing ex- 

 actly the living things by which we 

 are surrounded. 



Very truly yours, 

 David Starr Jordan. 



