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THE GUIDE TO NATURE 



half way there. Not quite half the 

 amount necessary to move these build- 

 ing's and to erect the new one has yet 

 been collected. The following- is the 

 list of the contributions received up to 

 the time of going to press with this 

 number. May we have your name 

 in the next list? Write or call if any 

 particulars are not clear as to immedi- 

 ate needs and ultimate plans. 



Previously acknowledged . . . .$1,520.45 



Mr. L. D. Rhinehart, Stam- 

 ford, Connecticut 5.00 



Mr. J. Chester Bradley, Atlan- 

 ta, Georgia 5.00 



Mrs. Wm. B. Dinsmore 25.00 



Dr. Samuel Pierson, Stamford, 5.00 



Miss Ethel Carey, Sound 



Beach, Connecticut 1.00 



Mr. Ed. Sandreuter, Sound 



Beach, Connecticut 5.00 



Mr. W. A. Chard, Stamford, .50 



Mr. William T. Davis, New 



Brighton, New York 5.00 



Mr. Eugene Schleip, Sound 



Beach, Connecticut 5.00 



Dr. and Mrs. Charles E. H. 

 Phillips, Glenbrook, Con- 

 necticut, (Increase — total 

 of $25.00) 10.00 



Mr. Zenas Crane, Dalton, 

 Massachusetts (Increase 

 — total of $150.00) 50.00 



The Century Company, New 



York City 100.00 



Mr. Charles H. Knapp, Sound 



Beach, Connecticut 15.00 



A Friend, Stamford, Conn... 5o.oo 



Mr. Robert Stewart, Sound 



Beach, Connecticut i5-oo 



Mr. Schuyler Merritt, Stam- 

 ford, Connecticut 5.00 



Mrs. Edward Lord, Stamford, 



Connecticut 2.00 



Ayres Brothers, Hoit & Com- 

 pany, Stamford, Connec- 

 ticut, (Increase — total of 

 $300) 100.00 



Mr. E. N. Fast, Stamford, 



Connecticut 5.00 



Reverend Louis C. Wurtele, 

 Acton Vale, Quebec, Can- 

 ada 5.00 



Total $L933-95 



From Encouraging Letters. 



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CHAS. II. SMITH, EDITOR SCHOOL SCIENCE 

 AND MATHEMATICS/' CHICAGO, ILL. 



It seems to me that The Agassiz As- 

 sociation has not been given a "square 

 deal" with reference to Arcadia. We 

 will give you a page in our next issue 

 for a statement of facts and an appeal 

 for funds. Hope for your sake and 

 more for the cause of "Nature-Study" 

 that you will make good in securing 

 the $10,000. 



J. CHESTER BRADLEY, SPECIAL ASSISTANT 

 ENTOMOLOGIST, STATE OF GEORGIA, 

 ATLANTA, GEORGIA. 



I think it the strangest tale that I 

 have ever heard. Why such zeal and 

 devotion on your part should have been 

 so rewarded, I cannot conceive. Surely 

 when your and our kind friend fully 

 understands the situation he will no 

 longer insist on so anomalous a deci- 

 sion as to send you forth from Arcadia. 

 I am sure you have the sympathy of 

 all who are interested in the advance 

 of Science and in the spread of popular 

 knowledge and love of nature. We all 

 owe you a debt of gratitude for what 

 you have done and for what you pur- 

 pose to continue to do. That it should 

 be so rewarded by one who has been 

 instrumental in encouraging and assist- 

 ing the work of the past so materially, 

 in the strange manner that he has de- 

 termined upon is disheartening and 

 unfair. 



I wish I could do more to help ma- 

 terially in the cause but the Lord has 

 endowed me with more good wishes 

 than earthly resources. However, I 

 enclose a check for five dollars as my 

 mite towards swelling the fund. 



A very 

 specimens of 



interesting 



catalogue 



of 



Mollusca comes to us 

 from Ward's Natural Science Estab- 

 lishment, Rochester, New York. While 

 it is issued for commercial purposes it 

 is of use to the general collector of 

 shells because of its very profuse il- 

 lustrations. 



True humility 

 Amiel. 



is contentment. — 



