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tion of Nature that consoles the troub- 

 les and relieves the weary. Thoreau 

 touched the quick when he said, "I 

 am no more lonely than a single mul- 

 lein or dandelion in a pasture, or a 

 house-fly or a bumble bee." 



Every one of us — the busiest, the 

 most careworn and the least, has a 

 longing- for something beyond and 

 aside from the daily grind for mere 

 existence. A wealthy broker in New 

 York has a pipe organ in his library, 

 whose walls are of extra thickness so 

 that the music may not annoy the 

 neighbors, and at the organ he finds 

 relief and true recreation. That such 

 music is a delight, and a means 

 of mental and nervous renewal, the 

 lover of music will understand. But 

 while we all may imperfectly appre- 

 ciate the fact, every one of us may, 

 without hesitation, adopt a study of 

 Nature, feeling certain that it too will 

 renew, re-create and bless. 



The growing child is no exception. 

 He must be supplied with some way 

 to employ his surplus energy, of which 

 he usually has a goodly amount, or 

 its expenditure may assume the form 

 of trouble and expense for the guar- 

 dian. Children take naturally to the 

 fields. They will manifest a whole- 

 some interest in Nature, if they have 

 a little intelligent guidance at the 

 start. To feel that a book, a maga- 

 zine, or still better, a living person, 

 may be consulted, adds much to the 

 pursuit, and makes the results more 

 valuable to all concerned. Few, es- 

 pecially few young folk, are in a posi- 

 tion to begin the study of Nature en- 

 tirely alone and unaided. They must 

 have some authority to which they 

 may appeal for help, encouragement 

 and advice. 



The AA aims to give the student 

 the aid that he will need, after it has 

 started him in the pure and pleasant 

 ways of science. Remember your own 

 childhood and youth, and the influence 

 of the out-door pursuits and objects 

 of recreation that you may then have 

 had, and help us to pass similar ob- 

 jects onward to the perhaps less for- 

 tunate young folk of to-dav. 



Tributes to Professor Alexander Agas- 



siz. 



The death of Professor Alexander 

 Agassiz (who gave the permission to 

 The Agassiz Association to use his 

 father's name) was briefly noted in our 

 last number. The following tributes 

 to the great scientist and business man 

 will be of especial interest to our 

 readers : 



IN UNIVERSITY, SOCIETY AND BUSI- 

 NESS. 



BY MAJOR. HENRY L. HIGGINSON. 



He always took deep interest in the Univer- 

 sity from the beginning, helped it in various 

 ways, and had very distinct notions of what 

 should be done in the way of education and 

 development. 



His life was very simple and easy, and he 

 saw a good many guests at his own house and 

 at other places, and was a great favorite in 

 society — indeed his presence was enough to 

 make any dinner-party a success. All this 

 while he worked over the Calumet Mine, go- 

 ing there twice a year and often more, passing 

 a week or ten days, following each develop- 

 ment, ordering new machinery when necessary 

 and, in short, guiding the work. This was all 

 done with the advice and assistance of his 

 brother-in-law, Mr. Shaw, and, indeed, these 

 two gentlemen developed a great property and 

 made it a wonder of safety and good manage- 

 ment. To the end he was as simple in his ways 

 and as kindly and affectionate in his greetings 

 to old friends as a man could be, and the 

 change from the boy to the man often did not 

 appear at all. 



A nobler, higher or more useful life no mar 

 ever lived, and withal he has kept the very 

 warm respect and affection of his classmates 

 and his numberless friends. 



THE DEVELOPMENT OF A LARGE 

 MINE. 



BY COLONEL THOMAS L. LIVERMORE. 



During his career he not only developed the 

 largest and most profitable mine in the world's 

 history, but also achieved greatness as a geolo- 

 gist, an engineer, a business manager, and the 

 molder of a contented, prosperous and orderly 

 community of about forty thousand souls, 

 which during his time grew from a single 

 cabin in the wilderness to its present propor- 

 tions. At the time of his arrival the primeval 

 forest covered the field of his future work and 

 nearly all the remainder of the Keweenaw 

 peninsula — the northerly extension of the state 

 of Michigan into Lake Superior. From the 

 site of the Calumet mine it was ten miles to 

 the nearest settlement. His interest in the 

 venture being enlisted through his supervision 

 of it, he soon undertook its management, and, 

 taking up his abode in a log cabin with the 

 workmen, he threw himself into the work with 

 all his energy. 



