2.H 



THE GUI>K TO NATURE 



the advancemenl of humanity depends 

 to a great extent upon a knowledge oi 

 nature. It will be remembered thai 

 to him largely was due the success oi 

 Peary in discovering the North Pole. 



Commander Peary, giving full credit 

 to Mr. Crane for this aid, tells us that 

 when he was almost discouraged, due 

 to his disappointment in raising' money 

 for his last trip, and was about to 



( mIht people may abstractly and tlieo- 

 retically know of the want, but Mr. 

 Crane goes ahead and supplies it. 



EVerybod) knows how great is the 

 benefit of the American Museum of 

 Natural History of New York to that 

 metropolis, and to its many visitors, 

 but forget that a smaller museum for 



a smaller place may he equally g 1. 



Who can tell why "words, words, 



THE ARCHED ENTRANCE HAS ON EACH SIDE TWO FLUTED DORIC COLUMNS, WHICH 



CARRY A DECORATED ENTABLATURE. 



abandon the project, Mr. Crane, who 

 had helped Peary on former expedi- 

 tions and had faith in him, came for- 

 ward now with a check for $10,000. 

 It was the hope and activity renewed 

 by that money that found the Pole. 



Mr. Crane thus had the knack of 

 doing the right thing at the right time. 



words" have always been more popu- 

 lar than things. Hundreds of towns 

 have libraries where one has a mu- 

 seum. And of the few museums, far 

 too many are wdiolly devoted to per- 

 petuating memories of fights, strifes, 

 bloodshed and agonies of death. But 

 this museum at Pittsfield, which it was 



