THE AGASSIZ ASSOCIATION 



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his ability to draw with both hands, 

 and simultaneously. This feat I have 

 seen performed repeatedly in his pub- 

 lic lectures in New York and Brook- 

 lyn, before my course at Cambridge. 

 It was always a surprising-, and a some- 



main idea in the Agassiz movement, to 

 instill a growing and a continuing in- 

 terest in things about you. 



Morgan YYillcox Avrks. 



AGASSIZ AND COUNT DE POURTALES. 



what speculative attitude on the part 

 of the audience, as to whether both 

 pieces of chalk were coming out right 

 in the end, but when he started in at 

 the head of a fish, there was no uncer- 

 tainty when both hands ended at the 

 tail!' 



I have only seen two other public 

 men who could do that feat. Water- 

 house Hawkins of London, and John 

 C. Dalton, Professor of Physiology in 

 Columbia. From the fact that this 

 thing could be done, it has always 

 seemed to me that any child that 

 showed a tendency toward being left- 

 handed should be encouraged in the 

 use of that hand, while the right one 

 was being cultivated at the same time. 

 The contrary course is too often fol- 

 lowed in utterly ignoring this ten- 

 dency, depriving the adult of an ex- 

 tremely useful and practical addendum 

 to his outfit. 



I am sorry that I cannot add more 

 to what I have already said, but my ap- 

 prenticeship was a long while ago, but 

 one thing I can say — that what little T 

 learned in my brief sojourn in Cam- 

 bridge has always been a stimulus to 

 learn more, and this I apprehend is the 



Good Words for Our Work. 



by g. stanley hall, ph-d., ll.d., in 

 "youth, its education, regimen and 

 hygiene/' 



"The Agassiz Association, founded 

 in 1875 'to encourage personal work in 

 natural science,' now numbers some 

 twenty-five thousand members with 

 Chapters distributed all over the coun- 

 try, and was said by the late Professor 

 Hyatt to include 'the largest number 

 of persons ever bound together for the 

 purpose of mutual help in the study of 

 nature.' It furnishes practical courses 

 of study in the sciences ; has local 

 Chapters in thousands of towns and 

 cities in this and other countries ;. pub- 

 lishes a monthly organ, 'The Swiss 

 Cross,'* to facilitate correspondence 

 and exchange specimens ; has a small 

 endowment, a badge, is incorporated, 

 and is animated by a spirit akin to that 

 of University Extension ; and, although 

 not exclusively for young people, is 

 chiefly sustained by them." 



*Later succeeded by The Guide to 

 Nature. 



Our Ernest Thompson Seton Chapter. 



Officers : President, Carol Marmon ; 

 Vice-President, Cecile Dudley ; Record- 

 ing and Corresponding Secretary, 

 Charlotte Driggs ; Treasurer, Monroe 

 O'Flynn ; Curator of Collections, Wil- 

 liam Hoisington. Number of mem- 

 bers, twenty. 



In the year 1916 we organized an 

 Ernest Thompson Seton Chapter of 

 The Agassiz Association. It was quite 

 successful and all Wabanaki took an 

 interest in it. So this year it was con- 

 tinued with new officers elected. 



We have decided to use as a meet- 

 ing place Casa Penikese, a small cabin 

 which is really an ideal spot quite a 

 distance away from the Mesa (the 

 main building) with a fireplace and 

 long rows of shelves on which the cura- 

 tor can arrange our nature specimens. 



We are to hold regular meetings 

 once a month but go on observing out- 

 ings at least once a week, usually on 

 Wednesdays. We have lectures, some 

 with lantern slides. Sometimes we 



