THE AGASSIZ ASSOCIATION 



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ArcAdiA: Sound Beach, Conn. 



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, 

 Fittsfield. 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 natunl 

 and scientific specimens ; the employment of 

 observers and teachers in the different depart- 

 ments of science, and the general diffusion of 

 knowledge." 



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AGASSIZ AS A TEACHER 



HE spoke with intense earnestness and all his words 

 were filled with that deep religious feeling so char- 

 acteristic of his mind. For to Agassiz each natural 

 object was a thought of God, and trifling with God's truth 

 as expressed in Nature was the basest of sacrilege. 



And the Summer went on, with its succession of joyous 

 mornings, beautiful days, and calm nights, with every 

 charm of sea and sky : the master with us all day long, 

 ever ready to speak words of help and encouragement, evet 

 ready to give us from his own stock of learning. The 

 boundless enthusiasm which surrounded him like an at- 

 mosphere, and which sometimes gave the appearance of 

 great achievement to the commonest things was never 

 lacking. He was always an optimist, and his strength lay 

 largely in his realization of the value of the present mo- 

 ment. He was a living illustration of the aphorism of 

 Thoreau, that "there is no hope for you unless the bit of 

 sod under your feet is the sweetest in this world — in any 

 world." The thing he had in hand was the thing worth 

 dping, and the men about him were the men worth helping. 

 — David Starr Jordan in ''Agassiz at Penikese." 



STUDENT MEMBERSHIPS. 



Chapter Organization Expense. 



Entrance Fee $1.25 



Handbook, "Three Kingdoms" 75 



Engraved Charter, mailed in tube . . . 1.00 

 Total necessary expense to a Chapter 



upon joining the Association 3.00 



Annual Dues. 



The Annual Dues for Chapter 2.00 



The Annual Dues each Member of 

 Chapter 05 



Corresponding Member's Expense. 



Entrance Fee $0.25 



Handbook, "Three Kingdoms" 75 



Certificate of Membership 50 



$1.50 

 Annual Dues 1.50 



$3.00 



Student Members are required to make a 

 report at least once a year. This report 

 should contain not only a statement of 

 work done, but of "the promotion," "the 

 advancement," etc. See quotation from 

 Charter. We are to help others as well as 

 ourselves. Extend the influence of the AA. 



The Annual Dues include payment for sub- 

 scription to The Guide to Nature. 



COOPERATING MEMBERSHIPS 



Sustaining Member (annually) $5 



Sustaining and Honorary (annually) . . $25 



Life Member (paid at one time) $100 



Patron (paid at one time) $1,000 



Founder $5,000 



Benefactor $25,000 



Cooperating members may, if they desire, 

 be enrolled as members of The Educational 

 Humane Society, which is a Chapter of the 

 Agassiz Association. Its work is general 

 and world-wide. It believes in the law of 

 love, rather than the love of law. 



