THE PLANT WORLD UNDER CARE 



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Geastcr minimus, the smallest earth- 

 star, is found in grassy grounds. The 

 water-measuring earth-star, Geastcr Jiy- 

 grametricus, grows in fields, woods and 

 sandy soil, and is found all over the 

 world. 



When the weather is wet, the under- 

 side of the points of the star become 

 soft and so lie flat to the ground ; 



when the weather is dry, the points 

 curl up about the inner ball, and the 

 wind rolls it about, scattering the 

 spores from the opening at the top. 



Illustrations and particular informa- 

 tion are given in '"The Mushroom 

 Book" by Nina L. Marshall. She says, 

 "It is a fair-weather traveller, always 

 resting at night and on damp days." 



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AGAS5IZ ASSOCIATION 



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Incorporated, Massachusetts, 1892. Incorporated, Connecticut, 191". 



BOARD OF TRUSTEES. 

 Corporators : Edward F. Bigelow, Ph. D., 

 Sound Beach, Conn., President and Treasurer ; 

 Hon. Homer S. Cummings, Stamford, Conn., 

 Secretary ; Walter D. Daskam, Stamford, 

 Conn. Other Trustees : Harlan H. Ballard, 

 Pittsfield, Mass., Honorary Vice-President ; 

 Hiram E. Deats, Flemington, New Jersey, 

 Business Adviser and Auditor ; President 

 David Starr Jordan, Stanford University, 

 California, Dean of Council; Dr. Leland O. 

 Howard, Washington, D. C, Naturalist Ad- 



viser; Reverend Charles Morris Addison, 

 Stamford, Conn. ; George Sherrill, M. D., 

 Stamford, Conn. 



From the Charter of Incorporation: "The 

 purposes for which said corporation is formed 

 are the following, to-wit : the promotion of 

 scientific education ; the advancement of 

 science; the collection in museums of natural 

 and scientific specimens ; the employment of 

 observers and teachers in the different depart- 

 ments of science, and the general diffusion of 

 knowledge. 



More Than a Cure — a Preventive. 



One of our enthusiastic friends has 

 sent to this office a copy of "The White 

 Peril, or How I Cured Myself of Con- 

 sumption at Home," by Louis R. An- 

 drews, a young man of Danbury, 

 Connecticut. 



This, like all other writings on the 

 subject, preaches the doctrine of The 

 Agassiz Association. "Consumption 

 cures," professedly for curing con- 

 sumption, have this one defect — they 

 keep the patient constantly thinking 

 of himself. 



Not long ago in New York City, my 

 attention was attracted by a large 

 number of people who were hurrying 

 aboard the various cars. I followed 

 them. Upon inquiry of the conductor 

 as to what was the attraction I found 

 that they all were going to the Amer- 

 ican Museum of Natural History to 



see the demonstration pertaining to 

 consumption. Every one was think- 

 ing consumption, talking consumption 

 and, one might almost add, spitting 

 consumption. So great is the influ- 

 ence of mind over matter that in such 

 a crowd and in such a place one could 

 easily imagine oneself a consumptive. 

 But The Agassiz Association has 

 been for thirty-five years taking peo- 

 ple to the best of all consumption 

 cures — Nature's Sanitarium, the great 

 out of doors, and it does so more 

 effectively because it has all the time 

 been saying to its crowds of devotees, 

 "Think not of yourself, but of this 

 wonderful and beautiful world. Come 

 out of your stuffy rooms and live in 

 the fields and woods, in tune with 

 them, and as far as possible away from 

 your own ills, misfortunes and wor- 

 ries." It is all that the consumption 



