THE AGASSIZ ASSOCIATION 



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Cash Paia. 

 For The Guide to Nature 



to April 8, 1910 $3037.33 



For The Guide to Nature 



to January 1, 1911 2661.95 



For The Guide to Nature 



to February 1, 1911 .... 296.84 

 For The Guide to Nature 



to April IS, 1911 1095.51 



$7091/53 



For General Expenses to 



April 8, 1910 $ 623.31 



For General Expenses to 



January 1, 1911 156.34 



For General Expenses to 



February 1, 1911 0.00 



For General Expenses to 



April 15, 1911 ». . 124.31 



903.96 



Total $7995.59 



The Special Emergency Bulletin. 

 Tbe following is the summary of the Special 

 Emergency Bulletin of February 1st, 1911: 



Cash Received. 



From The Guide to Nature $5,238.11 



From Members' Dues, Contributions, 



etc 1,297.50 



From Edward F. Bigelow and family 240.16 



$6,775.77 

 Cash Paid. 



For The Guide to Nature $5,996.12 



For General Expenses 779.65 



$6,775.77 

 Bills to be paid $ 474.14 



As will be seen by the Annual Report, the 

 responses to that Bulletin aggregated $222.40. 

 The contributions ranged from 30c to $5.00 

 and $10.00, and three at $25.00 and two at $50.- 

 00. The entire list will be furnished any 

 contributor who may desire to see it. 



PERSONAL 



It will be noted that these contributions have 

 been used wholly to pay bills, and not the loan 

 by Edward F. Bigelow and family. This loan 

 on February 1, 1911, was a total of $240.16. 

 Now (April 15, 1911) it is $472.38— an in- 

 crease of $232.22. It is sufficient to state that 

 this loan is made out of necessity in postive 

 knowledge of the tremendous importance of 

 the work. It must not only go on but it 

 must not deteriorate. The bills must be paid, 

 and when there has been no money in the 

 treasury, and not sufficient responses from 

 members and friends, your president and his 

 family have taken the burden of advancing 

 the money with which to pay. 



We gladly give time and some money, 

 but must appeal to our members and friends 



id prevent so excessive burden coming upon 

 the Home Office management. 



For thirty- six years the incalculable bene- 

 fits and value of the work of the AA have 

 have been generally recognized and admitted. 

 No other organization, educational or philan- 

 thropic, with so extended work has been com- 

 pelled to do its work with so little financial 

 support. An experience of over one third of 

 a century proves that a dollar invested in the 

 A A has produced more results than in any 

 other organization. These are facts that have 

 been proven every year. 



Edward F. Bigelow, 

 President of The AA. 



The President's Annual Report to the 

 Trustees. 



Arcadia, Sound Beach, Conn. 

 May 6, 1911. 

 To the Trustees of The Agassis Associa- 

 tion. 



It affords me pleasure to report that 

 the work of the AA during this past 

 year has been the most effective, exten- 

 sive and prosperous of any year under 

 the present management. A very large 

 proportion of our members has been 

 active. Several Chapters long dormant 

 have sprung into renewed life and activ- 

 ity. The progress has been encourag- 

 ing though much of it has been of a 

 character not adapted to public exploita- 

 tion. 



More original work has been done in 

 the AA laboratory than in any previous 

 year. Many important investigations 

 are now in progress. During the year 

 we have had several special students, 

 and more could be enrolled if working 

 room and boarding accommodations 

 could be provided. 



Many contributions of specimens could 

 not be accepted for lack of museum 

 room. All space at our disposal has 

 been utilized in active work. Increased 

 facilities for micro-research and botani- 

 cal investigations are badly needed. The 

 demands along this line have been far 

 beyond our ability to supply. 



"The Guide to Nature" has been in- 

 creased in size by the addition of sixteen 

 pages and several illustrations. The cir- 

 culation is now 4,000 copies monthly. 

 There are fair prospects of attaining an 

 edition of 5,000 copies within two 

 months. 



The financial report is submitted here- 



