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THE GUIDE TO NATURE 



City, North Dakota. The first new 

 Chapter to be organized under the 

 present management was No. ion of 

 Johnstown, Pennsylvania. Our first 

 member to enroll was Professor 



PR LESSOR CHARLES E. BESSEY. 



Charles E. Bessey, who has taken very 

 active interest in our work. 



Mr. Beecroft in complying with our 

 request to send a photograph writes: 

 "I do not doubt but what you have had 

 'many snows' in the course of the 

 work. I often think of the amount of 

 labor entailed which people as a rule 

 do not realize. I have always thought 

 the magazine capable of further use- 

 fulness." Mr. Beecroft makes the very 

 sensible suggestion that naturalists 

 should never strive for the abnormal 

 or the unusual, but should devote at- 

 tention to commonplace nature. He 

 is right. There seems to be on every 

 hand a striving for sensation and that 

 spirit is allowed to influence the study 

 of nature by those who are not her 

 best and most experienced lovers. 



In no field has science yet reached 

 finality. It sees some things very 

 clearly, but the unknown lies about on 

 every side, a trackless wilderness yet 

 to be cleared and fitted for human 

 habitation. — David Starr Jordan in 

 "The Stability of Truth." 



Increase in Membership. 



India Taylor, Lake Villa, Illinois. 



Professor Earl Douglass, Pittsburgh, 

 Pennsylvania. 



Harrison M. Tietz, Richmond Hill, 

 Long Island, New York. 



Mrs. Avis B. Roberts, Los Angeles, 

 California. 



Elton R. Darling, New Bedford, 



Massachusetts. 



Robert B. Cooke, Chattanooga, Ten- 

 nessee. 



Recent Cash Contributions. 

 A Friend, Covington, Kentucky _$ i.oo 

 Mr. A. J. C. Anderson, New 



York City 5.00 



Air. J. Langeloth, Riverside, 



Connecticut 10.00 



Mr. R. L. Agassiz, Hamilton, 



Massachusetts -5-00 



Total $41.00 



Contributed Specimens. 



Grand Rapids Veneer Works, Grand 

 Rapids, Michigan : large piece of 

 bird's-eye maple. 



Mr. Francis H. Mayhew, Frankford, 

 Pennsylvania : tie made from artificial 

 silk. 



Air. J. Willis Youngs, Stamford, 

 Connecticut: two young bats and 

 mother. 



Joseph Delaventura, Sound Beach : 

 ninth, Telea polyphemus. 



C E. Pleas, Chipley, Florida : speci- 

 men of "Indian bread" Pachyma cocos, 

 and three large beetles. 



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

 Las Animas, Colorado : additional 

 micro-slides. 



Contributions of Drawings. 



The beautiful drawing on the first 

 cover page for the last three numbers 

 were contributed by Mr. Clement B. 

 Davis. New York City. 



Nature's Largess. 



Golden-flecked the meadow, 

 Silver-starred the field. 



What a wealth of treasure 

 Coffers twain would yield ! 



Not for earth's exchanges 

 This unmeasured dole : 



Higher be its mission. 

 Coinage for the soul. 



— Emma Peirce. 



