THE AGASSIZ ASSOCIATION 



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AGASSIZ ASSOCIATION 



Established 1875 Incorporated, Massachusetts, W)2 Incorporated, Connecticut, 1910 



The Buildings in New Arcadia, 

 The gift of the Arcadia buildings to 

 The Agassiz Association by The 

 United Workers of Greenwich, Connec- 

 ticut, was announced by the press gen- 

 erally and by the brief notice that we 

 were able to insert in the July number 

 of The Guide to Nature. This gift 

 gives hope and encouragement tor tiic 

 realization of an ideal Arcadia, and an 



mi use for them, is an insolvable puz;:! % 

 But The United Workers did exactly 

 the right thing and obviated our dif- 

 ficulty so far as that could be done in 

 the circumstances. We can now go on 

 with our work in these buildings which 

 are filled to their utmost capacity, and 

 well fitted to our needs. When this 

 surprising and welcome gift came to us, 

 the foundations for the new Arcadia 



LAYING THE FOUNDATION STONE OF THE NEW ARCADIA. 



equipment well fitted and much needed 

 with which to do our work. 



The proposed new building in the 

 new Arcadia even if it had been erected 

 as planned, would have been inferior 

 to these in several respects especially 

 in working conveniences. Several 

 hundred dollars had been expended by 

 the AA in fitting the old buildings for 

 our needs. Why they should be taken 

 from us, when we had thus fitted them 

 at great expense of time and labor, and 

 be given to an organization that has 



were almost completed, but it was pro- 

 videntially found that they were just 

 right for the necessarily modified plans. 

 The new building will have only one 

 story and one room — an auditorium 

 and exhibition room. In it we can re- 

 ceive our visiting Chapters, Members 

 and friends, and there hold the sessions 

 of the Summer School without stop- 

 ping the regular work. 



Our dream of the ideal A A Home 

 may now be realized, thanks to our 

 manv kind friends. We are almost 



