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THE GUIDE TO NATURE 



Nrrrnlorjg. 



WARREN H. TAYLOR 



STAMFORD, CONNECTICUT 



DIED JUNE ii, 1914 



Sustaining Member since February, 

 1911 

 A real lover of Nature, true friend 

 and much appreciated Mem- 

 ber of The Agassiz 

 . . .Association. . . 



Contributions of Natural History 

 Specimens. 



Mr. Francis H. Mayhew, Frankford, 

 Pennsylvania : neckties made from ar- 

 tificial silk. 



Miss Belle W. Ferris, Sound Beach : 

 screech owl. 



Dr. W. H. Sylvester, Natick, Massa- 

 chusetts : micro slides. 



Frank W. Lacy. Private U. S. M. C, 

 Las Animas, Colorado : micro slides. 



Mr. Paul G. Howes, Stamford, Con- 

 necticut: cavity nest for woodpeckers. 



Mr. Frederick A. Waldron, New 

 York City : cocoon of common garden 

 spider, Agriope rip aria. 



Mr. Edward Mvrick, Stamford : A 

 true Tarantula, not the so-called ba- 

 nana spider often called a Tarantula. 



The Billposter a Great Menace to 

 Nature. 



Stamford, Connecticut. 

 To the Editor : 



In your journal you justly eulogize 

 the beauties of the nature that sur- 

 rounds us. You often find them where 

 from the casual observer they remain 

 hidden. You make the old wall our 

 friend. Its cold stones are softened by 

 color, by light and shade, until one 

 longs for the peaceful days of those 

 that built such walls. You revive the 

 memory of "old times" and of histori- 

 cal events, when you point to an elm 

 that has withstood the elements per- 

 haps for centuries. It may have seen 



battles. It surely has shaded and com- 

 forted many a weary settler. 



In the midst of our reveries, we look 

 up — and — behold — a monstrous frame, 

 representing a rural scene, to divert 

 our thoughts to somebody's advertise- 

 ment of milk chocolate. 



Another similar outrage stirs your 

 blood to the boiling point. It looms 

 up at a picturesque spot, among an- 

 cient, moss-covered rocks, graceful 

 junipers and cypresses, to force you to 

 think about an automobile tire, a 

 painted tire thrust into a beautiful 

 landscape. That you may not forget 

 his tire, the maker plants his annoying' 

 poster 1 >n whatever road you may fol- 

 low, so that your enjoyment of the 

 beautiful scene is destroyed, because 

 you are not allowed to look at it. In 

 the present case the tire-maker will 

 gain nothing, for the victim will get a 

 tire from another source. So shall also 

 his choice of chocolate be from a manu- 

 facturer that puts his money into qual- 

 ity. 



The owner of the offensive property, 

 who is a party to this nuisance, may 

 have a right to offend the eye of the 

 public. Will his land gain by it? If 

 so, wdiat satisfaction to know he has 

 the ill will of his neighbors ? 



Can you, Editor, not guide these men 

 into the right spirit of nature and in- 

 duce them to combine their commer- 

 cial efforts into something more ele- 

 vated? 



Yours faithfully, 



Ed. Sandreuter. 



I am sensible to the lights and shad- 

 ows, the silences and sweet sounds of 

 the out-of-doors. Increased success 

 to The Guide to Nature and The 

 Agassiz Association and may the next 

 generation of Americans know more 

 and love better the quiet wonders of 

 the woods and fields. — Reverend Wal- 

 lace H. Finch, First Methodist Episco- 

 pal Church, Stamford, Connecticut. 



I hope your appeal may meet with 

 a more satisfactory response than is 

 frequently the case with such appeals. 

 It seems strange that so worthy a 

 cause should receive such halting sup- 

 port, while others certainly no more 

 worthy are overwhelmed with funds. — 

 Ellis B. Noyes, Portsmouth, Virginia. 



