EDITORIAL AM) GENERAL. 



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ishment. 



ave you forgotten your 



Latin? Try your skill oi) this; ''Bis 

 dat qui cito dot." 



This is not an editorial "we'' but 

 a "we" which includes hundreds of 

 students and lovers of nature. You 

 are one of them. Arcadia is tor von. 



SHC ESS!" 



This number completes Volume 1 of 

 The Guide to Nature. The twelve 

 months have been successful — much 

 more successful in many respects than 

 was anticipated. The Prospectus and 

 the first numbers of The Guide to Na- 

 ture were issued amid some discour- 

 agement and misunderstanding". The 

 entire volume has been edited with 

 very restricted facilities. 



But man_\' friends have given hearty 

 co-operation and encouragement. Chief 

 among these friends is the philan- 

 thropist-naturalist who supplies Ar- 

 cadia into which we shall move next 

 month. 



The light is brightening; the out- 

 look is becoming more and more fa- 

 vorable. We are going on to greater 

 things in our love and study of nature. 



Beginning with our next volume 

 several improvements will be made in 

 The Guide to Nature. The cover 

 designs will be in entirely different 

 style; some departments will be 

 changed and' several new features in- 

 troduced. ( >ur old and faithful friends, 

 and the new ones that are rushing in 

 with commendable and inspiring en- 

 thusiasm are making all this possible. 



The banner "success" will be greatly 

 advanced during the coming year. Join 

 our hanny. enthusiastic comnany. 



Life is worth living, and that, too, in 

 all intensity and zeal. Whatever may 

 be coming, one fact is sure. We shall 

 not pass through this paradise again. 

 Let us gather all we can as we go. 

 Make a real '"success" of it. "Life L 

 a series of pictures and the}' come our 

 wav but once." 



"The Guide to Nature'* seems to me par- 

 ticularly worth while because of the excel- 

 lent renroducT'on of the nhotogranhs. With 

 the l»ra;e membershin of the AA I ho^e you 

 will be able to keep the good work going.— 

 Richard C. McGregor. 



DEATH 01 IIENKY BAUSCH. 



Just as we arc' going to press, there 

 comes to us the sad news of the death 

 of Henry Bausch (of the well known 

 firm of The Bausch & Lomb Optical 

 Company). Mr. Bausch died at Augus- 

 ta. Georgia, after a long and painful 

 illness, where he had gone on account 

 of ill health. His age was fifty years 

 lacking" one week. Air. liausch has ac- 

 complished much in the advancement of 

 natural science and every nature student 

 will be saddened to learn of the death 

 of so faithful a worker. 



DOMESTIC Ql AIL. 



A special license to keep quail and 

 partridge (ruffed grouse) for experi- 

 mental purposes having been granted 

 to Arcadia by the State of Connecticut. 

 I desire to purchase specimens and to 

 obtain information on the subject. I 

 expect to conduct a series of extensive 

 experiments and desire to learn what 

 has already been done by others. I 

 also want records of observations of 

 wild quail and partridge. Any infor- 

 mation pertaining to these birds that 

 may be sent to me will be much ap- 

 preciated. 



DON'T HE AFRAID TO BE EGOISTIC. 



There is a vast difference between 

 egotism and egoism. We do not seek 

 for personal boasting or for self-laud- 

 ation, but we do want personality. 

 We want not merely the object but 

 your relation to it, and what it has 

 meant to you. 



Truly said Thoreau : 



"If it were required to know the 

 position of the fruit dots or the charac- 

 ter of the indusium, nothing" could be 

 easier than to ascertain it ; but if it 

 is required that you be affected by 

 ferns, that they amount to anything, 

 signify anything, to you, that they be 

 another sacred scripture and revela- 

 lion to you, helping to redeem your 

 life, this end is not so easily accom- 

 plished." 



Therefore do not be afraid to use 

 the first personal pronoun. You will 

 then be more concrete than in the 

 abstract third person. 



This magazine is "a medium of in- 



