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sponsor, Professor Hand, inspecting 

 glacier work on some hills a short way 

 from Chicago, collecting insects, shells 

 and various other curiosities, and mak- 

 ing good use of the camera. 



We have also done much along the 

 social line. Early in December we 

 gave a progressive dinner party that 

 was the talk of the school. We served 

 the various courses of a sumptuous 

 turkey dinner at the different members' 

 houses, going from house to house in 

 automobiles, also belonging to our 

 members. 



At a recent meeting one of our mem- 

 bers, Robert Hilpert, donated to the 

 Chapter a set of "Animate Creation" 

 which we intend to have bound. 



We have at various times distributed 

 copies of The Guide; to Nature among 

 the members of the club for them to 

 look over and find something of inter- 

 est to tell the club about. Everyone 

 was delighted with the magazine which 

 certainly is a guide to nature, and one 

 which you can well be proud of,- — in- 

 deed, we all are. However in the dis- 

 tribution of the books some were lost, 

 and as we do not wish to miss any 

 copies, we would like to know if thev 

 could be replaced. 



At present the club is working on 

 a play, "Lulu," to be given the latter 

 part of the month. With the money 

 that we hope to get from this play we 

 intend to make many necessary im- 

 provements, such as getting suitable 

 cases for our collections, etc. 



Although I have now graduated from 

 Wendell Phillips High School, [ have 

 become so interested in this Chapter of 

 The Agassiz Association, its work and 

 fun, that I still intend to keep in close 

 touch with it. 



Trusting that your work may go 

 steadily on we remain, 



Yours fraternally, 

 Wendell Phillips Chapter of the AA. 

 Robert P. V anderpoee, 

 Bx-P resident. 



Taking Nature to the Public. 

 Idea. 



A New 



Hope the magazine will continue to 

 improve in the future as it has in the 

 past. — Nelson LundivaU, Bozcman, Mon- 

 tana. 



BY FRANK C, PELLETT, ATLANTIC, IOWA. 



In a personal letter to the writer, 

 not long since, Dr. Bigelow wrote as 

 follows : "Did it ever occur to you 

 that one of the most dangerous things 

 in this world is to think new thoughts 

 and to do new things, except to the 

 few — •" etc. The more I think of it 

 the more apparent it becomes that he 

 is right. New ideas are seldom appre- 

 ciated — while they are new. 



It was certainly a new idea that Mr. 

 VanHyning, director of the museum oi 



THOMPSON VANHYNING, DIRECTOR OF THE 



MUSEUM OF IOWA HISTORICAL 



DEPARTMENT. 



the Iowa State Historical Department, 

 outlined to the Iowa Academy of 

 Sciences a few months ago, when he 

 proposed to enlarge the scope of the 

 institution to minister to the needs of 

 the young people of the entire state, and 



