CHILDREN — in Love and Appreciation, 



NATURE — for Enjoyment and Instruction, 



AGRICULTURE — for Human Culture and Inspiration, 



PEDAGOGY — for Parents as well as Teachers 

 CORDIAL GOOD WILL— for Everybody (except those 



who don t deserve it!) 



EDWARD F. BIGELOW 



ARCAD'A: 



SOUND BEACH, CONNECTICUT 



From L. E. Opliger, Superintendent Adams County, Decatur, Indiana. 



Dr. Edward F. Bigelow is an Insitute Instructor of great ability. He gave evidence of 

 that fact during our county Institute this year. His personality, wide experience, love and 

 knowledge of nature, and enthusiasm are such as to suggest, direct and inspire teachers to 

 become closer observers and make a systematic study of nature and its uses. 



Dr Bigelow has a keen interest and great sympathy for children, and throughout his 

 talks he makes an earnest plea for proper consideration of the child's rights and its proper 

 treatment. Our teachers were well pleased with his week's work. 



It is a pleasure to recommend him to any county superintendent desiring an Instructor 

 who gives a sane treatment of nature study with a strong pedagogical thread underlying it 



From Lee A. Dollinger, Principal High School, Sidney, Ohio. 



The teachers of Shelby County, Ohio, had as one of their instructors in their annual 

 Institute for 1912, Dr. Edward F. Bigelow of Sound Beach, Conn. Dr. Bigelow not only 

 told us some things, but shoivcd us how nature study should be taught, and put us right -with 

 nature. The teachers tell me it was one of the most inspiring and best weeks we ever had. 



From Arthur J. Marble, Vice-President Worcester County Horticultural 



Society, Worcester, Mass. 



I was more than pleased with jour illustrated lecture delivered before our Horticultural 

 Society. All our people were charmed to be taken right into the heart of "The Haunts of 

 Nature." And may 1 speak of your lantern slides? They were the finest I have had the 

 pleasure to see in the ten years J have been chairman of our committee on winter meetings. 



From Frank H. Jarvis, County Superintendent of Schools, Wyoming County, 



Tunkhannock. 



Indeed am I grateful to you for the excellent instruction on that most of all important 

 subjects, Nature Study, that you gave our teachers week of December 9-13, 1912. It was 

 very gratifying to me that you held the attention of the large audience so perfectly. Why 

 should you not do so considering the most important messages you have to give both old 

 and young? You have caused many of our teachers to put on the rousements whereof much 

 work in Nature Study, I hope, will be accomplished, resulting finally for the good of the 

 children in our public schools. 



You are at liberty to refer any County Superintendent in Pennsylvania to me. / can 

 say only good -words of the work that you do. While your terms are somewhat high, the 

 goods you deliver make you easily worth the cost of the message you bring each time that 

 \ i iu talk to teachers. 



From Principal Mariah P. Duval, Stuart Hall, Staunton, Virginia. 



Your lecture with its exceptional pictures was delightful to our girls and we shall 

 always remember your visit with pleasure. The Rambers greatly enjoyed their ramble with 

 you. 



From Mrs. Alice Algar Flick, of the Cooperative Clubs of Portsmouth and 



Norfolk, Virginia. 



Dr. Bigelow's lecture on "The Haunts of Nature" was one of the best of the kind 

 ever given in our city. Assisted by splendid views, we were conducted through a veritable 

 fairyland of places and things with which we are perfectly familiar, but by which we usually 

 pass with unseeing eyes on our way through the workaday world. 



The wonders of winter, the season in which we are apt to regard nature as dormant, 

 were beautifully portrayed. There was tine sentiment without sentimentality, a free fancy 

 devoid of fiction, a persistency in presenting nature as it appeals to the "open mind" of 

 youth, before the contact with the world has, as he says, "taken the edge off" things, that was 

 refreshing. That Dr. Bigelow held the undivided attention of his audience for two hours 

 was proof of its interest. 



