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THE GUIDE TO NATURE 



THREE FAITHFUL, DEVOTED MEMBERS OF THE AGASSIZ ASSOCIATION. 



Edward F. Bigelow. Harlan H. Ballard. Hiram E. Deats. 



Photographed at the entrance to "White Birch Lodge" in Arcadia, the day after the Annual Meeting of 



the AA. 



The Middleman in Science. 

 We hear much complaint nowadays 

 of the middlemen in commerce. They 

 are too numerous, it is said, there are 

 too many links in the chain connecting- 

 producer with consumer. But in the 

 scientific field the fault is quite the op- 

 posite. There are too few middlemen 



not enough qualified persons engaged 

 in the transmission of newly discovered 

 truth to the masses. Writers of all 

 sorts have multiplied amazingly and 

 acquired unprecedented skill, with the 

 exception of writers of popular science. 

 In this branch of literary art there is 

 perhaps not an actual decline as com- 



