THE GUIDE TO NATURE 



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AGASSIZ ASSOCIATION 



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Established 1ST 



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Encouragement. 



A' LETTER FROM GOVERNOR JOHN A. DIX 



OF NEW YORK TO PRESIDENT BIGELOW 



OF THE AGASSIZ ASSOCIATION 



State of New York Executive Chamber 



Albany, March 8, 1912. 

 Edward F. Bigelow, 



President, The Agassiz Association. 

 Arcadia, Sound Beach, Conn. 

 Dear Air. Bigelow : 



I think you are accomplishing a 

 most excellent work and deserve the 

 sympathy and encouragement of every 

 citizen for your efforts in elevating the 

 standards of character in young men 

 and young women. I doubt if there is 

 a more important study than the study 

 of nature — animals and wild fowl, for- 

 ests and flowers — to broaden the vis- 

 ion, to teach sympathy and considera- 

 tion for others. It inspires courage , 

 it gives purpose and brings one's soul 

 into a closer toucli with our Maker, 

 when one has appreciation of Nature's 

 work, done in silence as a gift to man- 

 kind. 



With expressions of my high regard 

 and esteem, I am, 



Very truly yours, 

 (Signed) John A. Dix. 



Central College Chapter, Huntington, 

 Indiana. 



Our Chapter was organized last No- 

 vember with eleven charter members; 

 since then one new member was elec- 

 ted. Our officers are as follows : Presi- 

 dent, Fred A. Loew ; Vice-president, 

 Briant Lawrence ; Secretary, Ray C. 

 Pellett ; Treasurer, Merle G. Gragg. 



We made our constitution and by- 

 laws as simple and as few as possible 

 because we do not want to be ham- 

 pered by "Red Tape." 



We elect our members. We are 

 not trying to make our chapter popular 

 from the standpoint of numbers. We 

 do not urge any one to join because 

 we want those who join to do so be- 

 cause they love to study nature ; and 

 will keep up their own interest. We 

 think, that the best results will be ob- 

 tained by this method. 



In order not to interfere too much 



OUR CENTRAL COLLEGE CHAPTER. 



with other duties in College our meet- 

 ings are held once a month. 



We are new in the work. We may 

 not have the best methods for doing 

 work yet. 



At our first three mettings we had 

 papers read on the following subjects: 

 Nature Study; The Book of Nature; 

 Geological Birds ; after each paper 

 some time was spent in discussing the 

 paper and subjects related to them. 

 At our last meeting we studied stems 

 of plants using the miscroscope ; this 

 seemed to be very interesting to the 

 members. 



Another feature of our work is the 

 reports of observations made by indi- 

 vidual members. These reports are 



