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PUBLISHERS NOTICES 



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New Home and Enlarged Work. 

 We have now moved the office of 

 The Guide to Nature from No. 47 

 Willow Street, Stamford, Connecti- 

 cut, (where it has been for a little 

 more than tAvo months) to Arcadia, 

 Sound Beach, Connecticut. This 

 number is mailed at the post office in 

 Sound Beach and is, so far as we 

 know, the first magazine ever publish- 

 ed in this place. 



WHAT IS ARCADIA? 



Arcadia is the nature institution 

 (supplied by a philanthropist as was 

 announced in the January number of 

 The Guide to Nature) consisting of 

 several portable buildings on more than 

 a half acre of land situated in the busi- 

 ness center of Sound Beach, next door 

 to the post office and near the rail- 

 road station. The Stamford trolley 

 cars ^Glenbrook and Shippan) pass 

 the doors and directlv or by transfer 

 4 ake passengers to all parts of Sound 

 Beach, Stamford and Greenwich. 



Arcadia has two distinct purposes : 



1. It is the home of The Agassiz 

 Association, an international incor- 

 poration. The charter says: 



'The nurpose for which the corpo- 

 ration is constituted is the promotion 

 of scientific education ; the advance- 

 ment of science ; the collection in 

 museums of natural and scientific 

 soecimens ; the employment of ob- 

 servers and teachers in the different 

 departments of science, and the gen- 

 eral diffusion of knowledge." 



This was established in 1875 ar >d m ~ 

 coroorated in 1892. It is the oldest 

 and largest institution in existence for 

 encouraging popular nature study. It 

 has no help nor sympathy for miserly 

 hoarding of knowledge, gathered at 

 enormous expense, but it desires to 

 make every dollar count to the best 

 advantage and for the benefit of those 

 who most need it. T he income of the 

 AA is derived from the usual maga- 

 zine income of the The Guide to 



Nature, from the tenancy of E. F. 

 Bigelow (see 2 below) and from mem- 

 bership fees, direct gifts, etc. The 

 officers are as follows : 



Edward P. Bigelow, Sound Beach, Con- 

 necticut; President. 



Harlan H. Ballard, Originator and for 

 thirty-three years President, Pittsfield, 

 Massachusetts; Ex-President; Personal 

 Adviser. 



Hiram E. Deats, "Founder" of AA Incor- 

 poration, 1892, by gift of $5,000, Fleming- 

 ton, New Jersey; Business Adviser. 



Honorable Homer S. Cummings, Stam- 

 ford, Connecticut; Secretary. 



Walter D. Daskam, Stamford, Connecti- 

 cut; Treasurer. 



Dr. David Starr Jordan, President Leland 

 Stanford Junior University, Palo Alto, Cali- 

 fornia; Dean of AA Council. 



Dr. Leland O. Howard, Chief of Bureau 

 of Entomology of the United States Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture, Washington, D. O; 

 Naturalist Adviser. 



Reverend Charles Morris Addison, Stam- 

 ford, Connecticut. 



Dr. George Sherrill, Stamford, Connecti- 

 cut. 



No officer of the AA receives a 

 salary. The association is purely a 

 philanthropic, "missionary" nature- 

 work so far as it aids those who need 

 aid and cannot pay for it. Every cent 

 of income is placed on the "Received" 

 side of our cash book. On the "Paid" 

 side are only actual expenses — paoer, 

 printing, engraving, mailing. This 

 book is audited once a year by mem- 

 bers of the incorporation and is open 

 at all times to inspection of any con- 

 tributor or AA member. 



2. Arcadia contains the residence 

 and is the personal, working head- 

 quarters of Edward F. Bigelow in the 

 preparation of "Nature and Science" 

 of "St. Nicholas" and other nature- 

 study work for which pay is received. 

 From that fact the question might be 

 asked (although up to the present time 

 it has not been asked), "If I aid Ar- 

 cadia, am I not to an extent aiding 

 you in earning" a living for yourself 

 and family? If so, then there is no 

 more reason in my aiding Arcadia by 

 gifts or membership fees, than thus to 



