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THE GUIDE TO NATURE 



P. M., or make an appointment by tel- 

 ephone. 



Members with their friends are wel- 

 come at any time on any day. 



The Agassiz Association, Inc., 



Edward F. Bigelow, 



President. 

 Telephone 1597-4. 



Contributions to Agassiz Assembly 

 Hall. 



Balance from Building Fund 



of New Arcadia $14-59 



Mr. J. Langeloth, Riverside _ 50.00 



Mr. Wesley H. Finney, Sound 



Beach 1.00 



Mrs. E. Dimon Bird, Green- 

 wich 2.00 



"Homedale," Greenwich 2.00 



Miss Alice L. Armistead, 



Stamford 1.00 



Mrs. Charles M. Joslyn, Hart- 

 ford, Conn. 1.00 



Miss Belle W. Ferris, Sound 



Beach 1.25 



Mrs. P. D. Adams, Sound 



Beach 2.00 



Miss J. Pinkham, Sound 



Beach 1.00 



A friend, Stamford 25.00 



Mr. William H. Judd, Stam- 

 ford 25.00 



Mr. C. H. Knapp, Sound 



Beach 10.00 



Mr. Samuel P. Avery, Hart- 

 ford, Conn. 25.00 



Miss Helen W. Smith, Stam- 

 ford 10.00 



Mrs. C. O. Miller, Stamford _ 10.00 



Mr. James W. Brice, Sound 



Beach 10.00 



Mr. George A. King, Arling- 

 ton, N. J. 2.00 



Mr. Robert Stewart, Sound 



Beach 5.00 



A Friend 5-°° 



Mr. Warren H. Taylor, Stam- 

 ford 10.00 



Mrs. G. H. Bladworth, Sound 



Beach 10.00 



Mr. Allen F. Kitchel, Sound 



Beach 2.00 



Mr. W. J. Delap, Stamford __ 10.00 



Dr. S. Elizabeth Finch, Sound 



Beach 10.00 



A Friend, Sound Beach 5.00 



Mr. Wells McMaster, Sound 



Beach 5-°° 



Honorable D. O. Wickham, 



Cleveland, Ohio 5.00 



Mrs. Mortimer B. Foster, 



Sound Beach 



Miss Lot a A. Mix, Stamford 

 Dr. Merwin-Marie Snell, 



Sound Beach 



A Friend, Sound Beach 



F. Schavoir, M. D., Stamford 

 Mrs. Robert McGinnis, Sound 



Beach 



Mr. L. S. Miller, Sound Beach 



5.00 

 2.00 



55 .00 

 3.00 

 2.00 



10.00 

 5.00 



$341.84 



Actual Occurrences, Not Prophecies. 



The weekly newspapers are published 

 in the latter part of the week, most of 

 them on Friday, many of them on Sat- 

 urday, just in time for the readers to 

 get an account of the events of the week. 

 The daily morning papers professedly 

 give, early that morning, the news of 

 the previous day. They do not attempt 

 to chronicle the news for the day on 

 which they are dated. The papers that 

 do this are, of course, published in the 

 evening, or as late in the day as is possible 

 in order to cover the complete news of the 

 previous twenty-four hours. 



But when we come to the mag'azines 

 what a strange anomaly we have ! Most 

 of them are inconsistently published two 

 or three weeks before the month for 

 which they are dated. What possible 

 reason can there be for dating any pub- 

 lication several weeks after it is pub- 

 lished ? The Guide to Nature publishes 

 a resume of what has taken place in the 

 realm of nature for that month, and 

 thereby becomes a guide for the following 

 month. It tells of things done, not of 

 things predicted, nor, least of all, of vis- 

 ions and dreams that may happen but 

 probably never will. Yet, strange to say, 

 when we publish a magazine at the very 

 time when it should be published, the last 

 of the month, some people think that we 

 are inconsistent. But it is not we that 

 are incongruous. Here is the last of the 

 month, and our magazine goes to the 

 post office for the month on which it is 

 dated, and at the same time there come 

 to my desk magazines dealing with events 

 in outdoor life and with allied topics that 

 are to occur during the following month. 

 How do the editors know that such a 

 month will ever come, or if it does, how 

 do they know that a catastrophe will not 

 destroy all nature? Inconsistent? Our 

 correspondents must look elsewhere for 

 that. 



