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Incorporated, Massachusetts. 1802. 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, 

 Pittsiield, 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. 



Christ — The Naturalist; Christmas Thoughts for Christians. 



Christ was a Naturalist. 



In celebrating 



His Birth and Resurrection 



we fittingly use 



Trees, Shrubs, Plants, 



Flowers, Ferns, Fern Allies 



(Christmas Green), 



Parasitic Plant (Mistletoe) 



and Birds. 



He drew His lessons from all nature 

 He communed with nature — He was a 

 Naturalist. 



Arc you in agreement with Him? 



The only organization in existence 

 devoted to all nature professedly in the 

 spirit of Christ, is The Agassiz Associa- 

 tion. It takes its name from Louis 

 Agassiz, who believed in nature as the 

 work of a Deity, and who had "use" for 

 a < iud in the study of nature. 



He opened the first session of the 

 first great biological laboratory at the 

 Island of Penikese (off the coast of 



Massachusetts) by prayer. Read "The 

 Prayer of Agassiz" by John Greenleaf 

 Whittier. In the introduction to that 

 poem Mr. Whittier says : 



"The island of Penikese in Buzzard's 

 Bay was given by Mr. John Anderson 

 to Agassiz for the uses of a summer 

 school of natural history. A large barn 

 was cleared and improvised as a lecture- 

 room. Here, on the first morning of the 

 school, all the company was gathered. 

 'Agassiz had arranged no programme of 

 exercises,' says Mrs. Agassiz, in 'Louis 

 Agassiz ; his Life and Correspondence,' 

 'trusting to the interest of the occasion 

 to suggest what might best be said or 

 done. But, as he looked upon his pupils 

 gathered there to study nature with 

 him, by an impulse as natural as it was 

 unpremeditated, he called upon them to 

 join in silently asking God's blessing on 

 their work together. The pause was 

 broken by the first words of an address 

 no less fervent than its unspoken pre- 

 lude.' This was in the summer of [873, 

 and Agassiz died the December follow- 

 ing." 



The entire poem is worth your careful 



