THE AGASSIZ ASSOCIATION. 



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United States Department of Agricul- 

 ture, Bureau of Entomology, 

 Washington, D. C. 



April 1, 1910. 

 Dear Doctor Bigelow: 



1 have yours of the 30th, and regret 

 that I cannot be present at the meet- 

 ing on April nth. 1 have nothing, 

 however, hut the hisrhest commenda- 



LELAND O. HOWARD, PH. 1 >. 

 Washirgton, D. C. 

 Naturalist Adviser. 



tion to express concerning The Agassiz 

 Association under your administra- 

 tion. To foster intelligently a love of 

 nature in young people, and to afford 

 facilities for the gaining of information 

 ahout natural history to the very many 

 young people who are natural obser- 

 vers and who are so placed that they 

 are not able to make intelligent de- 

 ductions from what they see, is an aim 

 which deserves the highest praise. And 

 the intelligent and highly efficient man 

 ner in which you are doing this is be- 

 yond criticism. T have only to look 



back to my own boyhood days to real- 

 ize what a boon such an association 

 would have been to me. We had then 

 but few books; there was almost no 

 one of whom we could ask questions, 

 and those of us who were not discour- 

 aged by lack of opportunity to corre- 

 late and appreciate the significance of 

 our observations worked in the dark 

 as compared to the conditions that 

 surround young workers to-day. You 

 deserve the support of every one, and 

 you will surely have mine so long as 

 yi »u wish it. 



Yours sincerely, 



L. O. Howard, 

 Chief of Bureau. 



The President's Annual Report to the 

 Trustees. 

 Arcadia, Sound Beach, Conn. 

 April n, 1910. 

 To the Trustees of the Agassiz Associa- 

 tion. 



A little more than a year ago. this 

 Association entered upon a new era, 

 in the reorganization of the Board, 

 and in the equipment of Arcadia, pro- 

 vided by one of our members, at 

 Sound Beach, Connecticut, for the 

 greater efficiency of our work. I am 

 confident that the gratitude of all the 

 members for this outfit which came at 

 an especially critical time in the life 

 of the Association is far more than can 

 be conveyed in words ; the value more 

 than can be expressed in dollars. 



Arcadia has necessitated work some- 

 what comparable to the establishment 

 of a new manufacturing business, in 

 that we must, first, thoroughly equip 

 and systematize the producing outfit 

 and, second, provide means for dis- 

 . tributing the goods to all parts of the 

 world. Only for new knowledge, the 

 results of the experimental work, (and 

 articles and illustrations pertaining 

 thereto") does the comparison of 

 Arcadia to a manufacturing establish- 

 ment hold true. It is more largely 

 comparable to a banking clearing 

 house in that it takes in and gives out; 

 and still further and even more ex- 

 tendedly may it be compared to a cor- 

 respondence school, in that it teaches 

 those who wish to learn. But what- 



