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THE GUIDE TO NATURE 



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AQASSIZ ASSOCIATION' 



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Established L875 



Incorporated, Massachusetts, 1S92 



Incorporated, Connecticut, 191U 



An Arcadia Lost, and An Arcadia Re- 

 gaining. 



The astonishing story of the sudden 

 and calamitous loss of Arcadia was 

 first told by the local newspapers of 

 Greenwich and Stamford. Copies of 

 these were mailed to all members of 

 The Ajassiz Association. The story 

 was further told to our members and 

 other friends in the June number of 

 The Guide to N<ature. This puz- 

 zling action of our multi-millionaire 

 friend has attracted world-wide atten- 

 tion and caused much discussion. 

 Metropolitan newspapers have regard- 

 ed the affair as good material for sen- 

 sational paragraphs. Local newspa- 

 pers have published columns in regard 

 to it. Magazines in all parts of the 

 country have told the news and ex- 

 pressed sympathy for the AA. Letters 

 of sympathy and suggestion have come 

 from everywhere. Quotations from a 

 few of these are published in this num- 

 ber. 



Local discussion has been heated 

 and all sides of the question fully con- 

 sidered. The oft repeated question to 

 your President is, "What is at the bot- 

 tom of all this?" My reply is, "I don't 

 know." I cannot assign all to a mis- 

 taken application of friendship, nor can 

 I agree with the other side and admit 

 that our kind benefactor has been ac- 

 tuated by a real grievance unknown to 

 me, or by a fancied one. I do not for 

 a moment believe that he was ever in- 

 sincere ; I do believe that he meant 

 exactly what he said in his letter. It 

 should be explained to those in dis- 

 tant places, in extenuation of Mr. 



's action, that he has been absent 



from this country for many months 

 and from Sound Beach for many more, 



and that he has never really known the 

 essentials of our work. I cherish only 

 kindly feelings for him, believing it all 

 to be a mistake assignable to "personal 

 equation," which, as astronomers say, 

 accounts for errors. 



The AA must have a new Arcadia 

 for its working headquarters. The 

 work is far too important to be stopped. 

 We must have facilities worthy of the 

 cause and of its workers. 



It should be known to all, as it is 

 known locally, that the loss is not so 

 much in the withdrawal of this Arcadia 

 as it is in the failure to supply the 

 necessary and promised facilities for 

 faithful work. The disadvantages, the 

 perplexities, the increased work caused 

 by the incompleteness of this plant 

 were many. But we could have still 

 borne these burdens, and should have 

 been glad to do so ; now we are de- 

 prived of the satisfaction of struggling 

 with those difficulties, and of conquer- 

 ing them. But let us have something 

 that shall be rightly fitted to the work. 

 We need $10,000 for a site and new 

 building. That does not mean that you 

 are requested to pay that sum or half 

 of it. But it means you can be one of 

 twenty thousand to give fifty cents ; 

 one of ten thousand to give u dollar; 

 one of four hundred to give twenty- 

 five dollars, or one of only one hundred 

 to give a hundred dollars. Here are 

 some of the "ones" in the list toward 

 the desired amount : 



Previously Acknowledged . . .$1,144.25 

 Mr. C. L. Wilhelm, Baltimore, 



Maryland 2.00 



Mrs. Frederick Gotthold, Cos 



Cob, Connecticut 2.00 



Mrs. Vernon Mosher Cady, 



Charlottesville, Virginia . 1.00 



