THE AGASSIZ ASSOCIATION 



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AGASSIZ ASSOCIATION" 



Established 1875 incorporated, M.a8saphn-«*tt-<. 1 -;>■_' Incorporated, Connecticut, 1910 



A Railroad Company Aids Arcadia. 



Gift Leases More than an Acre to The 

 Agassiz Association. For a Nature 

 Study Park in Arcadia. Is to he Named 

 Nymphalia. New Arcadia to have Six 

 Times the Amount of Land of the Old, 

 and Nearly Double the Amount of Floor 

 Space. Interest and Contributions In- 

 creasing. 



The New York, New Haven and 

 Hartford Railroad Company has leas- 

 ed to The Agassiz Association a tract 

 of land estimated to contain more than 

 an acre, and situated near the Sound 



Beach railroad station, adjoining new 

 Arcadia. The terms of this lease, that 

 make the land practically a gift, are 

 that The Agassiz Association ''shall 

 pay ... as rent the sum of one dollar 

 annually on the fifteenth day of every 

 August, in advance." The purposes 

 specified are that "the premises shall 

 be used . . . for the purposes of a park 

 for. nature study." 



The material for nature study is 

 more varied and more abundant on this 

 tract of land than on any other similar 

 tract of equal size that I have ever 

 seen. I have been studying it for more 



THE SOUTHERN SECTION OF NYMPHALIA— A PART OF ARCADIA. 



