THE AGASSIZ ASSOCIATION 



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AGASSIZ ASSOCIATION' 



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Established 1875 



Incorporated, Massachusetts, 1H92 



Incorporated, Connecticut, 1910 



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 tollowing, to-wit : the promotion of 

 scientific education ; the advancement of 

 science; the collection in museums of natural 

 and scientific specimens; the employment of 

 observers and teachers in the different depart- 

 ments of science, and the general diffusion of 

 knowledge." 



"Should be Placed on a Permanent 

 Basis." 



The work of The Agassiz Associa- 

 tion is of vast importance to science, 

 but if it were not dependent upon vol- 

 untary labor, its efficiency would be 

 even greater than it is. It has already 

 reached a period when provision 

 should begin to be made for placing 

 its work upon the more permanent 

 basis of funded property and paid la- 

 bor. That it is worthy of the support 

 already received from its thousands of 

 members cannot be questioned, and 

 this is a sufficient guarantee that it 

 would be a proper and useful trustee 

 and administrator of a part of the large 

 sums annually distributed by public- 

 spirited persons to institutions having 

 not a tithe of its claims to their favor- 

 able consideration. 



I should also take the liberty of say- 

 ing that material returns should not be 

 wanting, in order to secure the enjoy- 

 ment of something more than the per- 

 sonal satisfaction of having done good 

 work, and that the Association should 

 be placed on a permanent basis, and 

 its work secured, now and in the fu- 

 ture, by means of large invested fund:.. 

 — Alpheus Hyatt in the Introduction 

 to "Three Kingdoms." 



Scientific "specialization" has be- 

 come such an educational mania that 

 the old-fashioned "all-round" natural- 

 ists now are few and lonesome. At the 

 same time, however, the need for the 

 dissemination of practical every-day 

 knowledge regarding our mammals, 

 birds, reptiles, and fishes never, was so 

 great as now. — William T. Hornaday. 

 in "The American Natural History." 



Please remember this educational uplifting work in making your will. 



Storm of Irqittut to % ABsnriaium 



I hereby give and bequeath to The Agassis Association, an incor- 

 porated association, having its principal executive office at ArcAdiA, 

 in Sound Beach, in the town of Greenwich, Connecticut, the sum of 

 dollars. 



