THE AOASSIZ ASSOCIATION 



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AGASSIZ ASSOCIATION' 



Incorporated, Massachusetts, tb92 Incorporated, Connecticut, 1910 



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 



Agassiz's Belief. 



Professor Mills, who died a few 

 years ago, says the New York Times, 

 was a friend and pupil of Agassiz. They 

 met cordially on a scientific footing, 

 but the real interest that drew them 

 together was the belief, common to 

 both, that the outer world, with all its 

 laws and phenomena, was the handi- 

 work of the God who dwelt within it, 

 and was not only its Creator, but its 

 continued source. 



"All life is from within," was Agas- 

 siz's constant assertion. To both him 

 and his friend God was the one funda- 

 mental fact of the universe. It was 

 thus that a dream of Mr. Mills on the 

 very night of the death of Agassiz 

 always seemed to him to possess a cer- 

 tain strange significance. 



On the night that Agassiz died, Mr. 

 Mills, who was in the West, dreamed 

 that he and his friend were standing on 

 the seashore. Agassiz picked up an 

 atom from the sands, like a tiny jelly- 

 fish, and held it in his outstretched 

 hand while they watched it grow be- 

 fore their eyes, with no means of ob- 

 taining nourishment from the outer 

 world, until it became a large, well- 

 formed creature. 



"There," said Agassiz, "I always told 

 you that life is from within." 



When Mr. Mills went to the break- 

 fast table that morning, the first words 

 that greeted him were, "Your friend 

 Agassiz has gone." The dream had 

 been so vivid that it seemed to him like 

 a farewell message from his friend, 

 leaving this earth with the words on 

 his lips which were a declaration of 

 his life — long faith in the immanence 

 of God in His creation — Youth's Com- 

 panion. 



An AA Member's Arcadia. 



Cheney, Washington. 

 To the Editor: — 



I am sending a small photograph of 

 the Arcadia in my back yard. It was 

 built for a brooder house as we were 

 trying to raise some early chickens but 

 was not used for that purpose, as we 

 found it too small. A young Arcadian 

 took possession, and at once proceeded 

 to furnish the building to suit herself. 

 There are shelves and tables, and these 

 hold an odd assortment of jars, jelly 

 glasses, tin cans and boxes of different 

 kinds, and one box with a glass top. 



So far this Arcadian has studied 

 nature, not books, and as her choice of 

 nature study is not mine I cannot help 

 her much. Some persons object to 

 any study of science on account of hard 

 names, and some people are in the habit 



