THE AGASSIZ ASSOCIATION. 



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DAVID STARR JORDAN. 



President Leland Stanford Junior University, 



California. 



Dean of the AA Council. 



President Jordan writes: — 



"I have been acquainted with the work of 

 The Agassiz Association from the very be- 

 ginning. 



"There is no kind of intellectual training 

 more valuable than that of learning to see 

 what lies about us and also what the dif- 

 ferent objects seen signify. Every fact has 

 a meaning. It is part of the relation of 

 cause and effect; and the great students 

 of nature are those who have been able to 

 see the fact and to look behind it to the 

 principle or law or cause of which it is a 

 visible result. I regard your Association 

 as one of the most important educational 

 institutions of this country." 



Stamford; has strong scientific tastes ; 

 condncts a vegetable and flower gar- 

 den for the instrnction and with the 

 helo of the children of his Snnday 

 School ; has an AA chapter in Boys' 

 Club and has been an active worker 



in the AA for many years), Stamford, 

 Connecticut. 



Dr. George Sherrill, (prominent phy- 

 sician ; member of the AA since boy- 

 lux )d ; has strong love of natural science 

 and of outdoor life), Stamford, Con- 

 necticut. 



Dr. Howard thus expresses the need of 

 more observers, with the AA spirit: 



"There is nothing I can tell Dr. Bigelow, 

 and probably nothing I can tell the people 

 whom he interests which is new in the way 

 of argument of inducement to observe 

 nature, but there is so much in insect life 

 that still remains to be known, so many 

 interesting facts which the observer, how- 

 ever placed can find out that will add to 

 the sum total of human knowledge, that it 

 is a wonder that there are not many more 

 entomologists than there are. I have point- 

 ed this out in the introduction to 'The 

 Insect Book,' which in fact was written not 

 so much to tell what is known but to 

 point out what is not known but which 

 nevertheless can be more or less easily 

 found out. The most unobservant of per- 

 sons, sitting for example on a vine-shaded 



LELAND O. HOWARD, PH. D. 

 Washington, D. C. 

 Naturalist Adviser. 



