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Were other argument needed, I should find it in the great addition to the 

 enjoyment of life which results from an early acquaintance and constant inti- 

 macy with the wonders and beauties of external nature. For boy and man 

 this intimacy is a source of ever-fresh delight.— Charles William Eliot, LL.D., 

 President of Harvard University. 



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I earnestly solicit your aid in continuing and in- 

 creasing the work of The Agassiz Association. Those, 

 to whom this appeal may come, not familiar with this 

 work, may learn of its importance by carefully reading 

 the following letters from prominent educators and 

 naturalists. Please read also my "An Appeal for Co- 

 operation" on page 264. 



I receive no salary for the presidency of "The 

 AA," nor for the editorship of The Guide to Nature. 

 It is a labor of love— in the interests of nature and 

 humanity. All gifts go directly to paying actual ex- 

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Respectfully, 



c . r i r^ Edward F. Bigelow. 



htamtord, Conn. & 



From David Starr Jordan, President of Leland Stanford Junior University. 



California. 



To the President of The Agassis Asso- its very beginning. 



ciation: There is no kind of intellectual train- 



Deab Sip • m & more valuable than that of learn- 



I have been acquainted with the in g to see what lies about us and also 



work of The Agassiz Association from what the different objects seen sig- 



