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THE GUIDE TO NATURE 



C. Phillips of the Stamford High 

 School, who is not only a skillful 

 teacher but a genial and royal good 

 fellow. He inspires each boy to do his 

 part on the strictly university method, 

 which is that of original research. The 

 test of good leadership is that it leads 

 each member of the organization to do 

 his own part. It is here that Mr. Phil- 

 lips has achieved remarkable success. 

 When one is with this Chapter, he feels 

 that Mr. Phillips is no more and no 

 less than any one else. That is the 

 spirit of The AA. Every one should 

 be a, chief, leader and teacher. 



Let me mention one incident in con- 

 nection with this Chapter. Late in the 

 evening I referred to the fact that for 

 two or three years I had advertised in 

 "The Stamford Advocate" and else- 

 where for fairy shrimps (Branchipus) . 

 These are found only in the icy water 

 of early spring. For three years I had 

 failed to find them. One boy, Peter 

 Zwart, immediately "sat up and took 

 notice." His eyes glowed with en- 

 thusiasm. "You want fairy shrimps, 

 do you? You shall have them." It 

 made me think of the man that carried 

 the turtle eggs to Agassiz and was out 

 before sunrise to get them and traveled 

 forty miles, arriving at Agassiz's home 

 to see the grand old Professor hurry 

 down the stairs in his night clothes 

 and hear him say, "Let him in, let that 

 man in ; he has my turtle eggs." The 

 next morning the telephone bell rang, 

 and I heard a voice say, "I have the 

 fairy shrimps and will deliver them on 

 the next trolley car." That is what I 

 call doing things, that is what I call 

 being an ideal Member of The Agassiz 

 Association. 



Our Glenbrook Chapter. 



[FROM THE STAMFORD ADVOCATE.] 



Monday night, March 25, about 

 twenty boys of the Glenbrook Chapter 

 of The Agassiz Association went to 

 ArcAdiA, Sound Beach, where they 

 entertained and were entertained by 

 Dr. Bigelow. The boys left Glenbrook 

 about 4:45, and stayed in Sound Beach 

 until 9:45. Halbert C. Phillips, who is 

 the head of the Glenbrook Chapter, 

 joined the boys at ArcAdiA just in 

 time for supper. Miss Bigelow had 

 made cocoa enough to go the rounds 

 three times, and this, with the lunches 



the fellows had taken with them, made 

 a pretty substantial supper. 



Dr. Bigelow expressed his satisfac- 

 tion at the work the boys had been 

 doing, but said that they weren't doing 

 all they could, because they weren't 

 organized fully enough. He said that 

 the chapter ought to be working in 

 union with the people of Glenbrook — 

 that the people should co-operate so 

 well with the boys that every little un- 

 usual thing that turned up in the line 

 of nature study would be reported to 

 some member of the Association who 

 in turn would report to headquarters — 

 ArcAdiA and Dr. Bigelow. 



It was with the end in view of sys- 

 tematizing all the nature-study work 

 that he suggested that the President 

 of the Association appoint committees 

 to take up and investigate definite lines 

 of study. The committee to study 

 birds _ are Erastus Phillips, Stewart 

 Hoskins, Donald Evers, James Dan- 

 ver ; committee on flowers and miner- 

 als, Geer Morton, Laddie King, Robert 

 Bowes; committee for the observation 

 of shrubs and trees, Alan Hoskins, 

 Richard Walz, John Morton ; for the 

 study of salamanders and all pond life, 

 Howard Lee, Lawrence Griswold, 

 Henry Zwart, Peter Zwart; committee 

 on stars, Harry Hoskins, Abbott An- 

 drews, Harold Austin and George 

 Smock. The last named committee has 

 a special line of work set out for it, and 

 cannot benefit greatly by outside in- 

 formation, but as to all the others — 

 well, the best thing you can do would 

 be to cut this out and paste it in some 

 convenient spot as reference when you 

 want to find out whom to telephone to 

 if you discover a new specimen of bird, 

 or a flower that has never been seen be- 

 fore in Glenbrook. 



The boys on the committees are out 

 to work, and work they will, with the 

 object in view of having something 

 good to report at the next meeting at 

 Dr. Bigelow's in June, but they cannot 

 work alone. It is up to the citizens of 

 Glenbrook to help put the town on the 

 map, as all unusual results will be 

 printed in Tm< Guide to Nature and 

 other magazines which will be read by 

 people all over the United States. Be- 

 fore coming home, the boys heard an 

 interesting talk on botany from Mrs. 

 Blakely, who is studying that special 

 line of nature at ArcAdiA. 



