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THE GUIDE TO NATURE. 



Research Work! 



One of my friends, a teacher, was 

 telling the pupils, "Mr. Bigelow has 

 been supplied with a laboratory in the 

 new Arcadia for research work !" One 

 pupil, whose ideas of the ordinary 

 meaning of the word, "research," were 

 evidently not quite clear, exclaimed, 

 "A whole new building for research 

 work ! Why what has he lost that it 

 takes so much to find it ?" 



If that pupil will call, I will gladly 

 explain how my household furniture 

 is stored in various parts of two towns, 

 how some pieces of my apparatus are 

 in Sound Beach and others in various 

 parts of Stamford, and how I am doing 

 editorial and scientific work at a table 

 in a small, temporary office. She sure- 

 ly will think that it will take many 

 another hunt to find things — literally 

 a re-search ! I realize that she was not 

 so very far from a correct idea of the 

 situation after all ! 



The Audubon Societies. 



President William Dutcher and his 

 associated officers and workers of the 

 Audubon Societies are to be congratu- 

 lated on their remarkable achieve- 

 ments and growth in the few years 

 since the founding in 1901 and the in- 

 corporation in 1905. 



They have been enabled to do 

 wonderful work in the study and pro- 

 tection of birds because they have been 

 liberally supplied with funds for that 

 purpose. 



The total amount of dues received 

 up to April, 1909, since incorporation 

 four years ago, amount to $21,725. 

 The total amount of contributions re- 

 ceived since incorporation and up to 

 the same date amount to $13,110.25; 

 the endowment fund received through 

 the legacy of the late Albert Willcox, 

 and a small legacy of some $400.00 

 from another individual, and life mem- 

 berships amount to the astonishing sum 

 of $340,012; expenditure for legal ser- 

 vices and legislation amounts to $2,- 

 034.91. 



So there has been given in four years 

 a grand total of $374,847.25, over a 

 third of a million dollars, for the study 

 and protection of birds. No wonder 

 our sister Audubonites have been 

 enabled to do good work ; and they 

 have done it, are doing it, and The 

 Agassiz Association congratulates 

 them and all their sustainers for it. 



THE AGASSIZ ASSOCIATION. 



In the light of such extensive aid 

 and achievements in four years, one can 

 but dream of what inconceivably great 

 things might have been accomplished 

 by The Agassiz Association if it had 

 had in its thirty-four years of existence 

 even one tenth of the aid that the 

 Audubon Societies have had. We 

 point with no little pride to the fact 

 that AA has not been limited to national 

 work but has encircled the globe with 

 hundreds and hundreds of Chapters 

 and thousands and thousands of mem- 

 bers, that it was the pioneer of all the 



