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THE GUIDE TO NATURE. 



Recent Contributions to Arcadia. 



Since the furnishing of the account- 

 ing room of the A A Home at Arcadia, 

 Sound Beach, by the Buffalo, New York, 

 Chapter (as previously announced) the 

 principal gifts have been as follows : — 



A fine pair of large, plate glass, photo- 

 graphic mirrors made to special speci- 

 fications, contributed by Air. W. W. 

 Heroy of Stamford, Connecticut. 



An equipment of working tables for 

 the laboratory by Airs. Henry Lee Hig- 

 ginson, Boston, Massachusetts ; Dr. 

 Robert T. Morris, New York City, and 

 Mr. Charles M. Goethe, Sacramento, 

 California. 



Dr. Amos J. Givens of Stamford, Con- 

 necticut, has liberally contributed to the 

 expenses of certain scientific work. 



Aid Needed in Operating Expenses. 



The following paragraph from the 

 January number of The Guide to 

 Nature, in the announcement of Arca- 

 dia, is herewith repeated in all its em- 

 phasis of bold face type and under- 



scoring 



"No provision is made for the ex- 

 pense of assistants, experiments, photo- 

 graphy and other operating expenses." 



The prophetic theory that induced 

 that paragraph several months ago, be- 

 fore the foundations of the buildings 

 had been laid, has now merged into 

 actual experience. Let me repeat fur- 

 ther from that number : 



"I appeal for assistance in expense of 

 operation and in proving the apprecia- 

 tion of the entire plan." 



The student and aiding memberships 

 are as follows : 



$3.00 paid upon entering and $1.50 per 

 year thereafter constitutes a person a 

 Corresponding Member. 



$5.00 paid annually constitutes a per- 

 son a Sustaining Member. 



$100.00 paid at one time constitutes 

 a Life Member. 



$1,000.00 paid at one time constitutes 

 a person a Patron. 



$5,000.00 paid constitutes a person a 

 Founder. 



$25,000.00 paid constitutes a person a 

 Benefactor. 



I and members of my family who aid 

 are willing to give a large part of our 

 time, to pay rental to the AA for the 

 residence, to devote a large part of per- 

 sonal means, to do all possible — but the 

 rest, an important part, you must do or 

 it will not be done. Come and see the 

 cash books and add your assistance to 

 actual expenses. Let us tell you what 

 we need. 



What the AA Means. 



The Agassiz Association stands for 

 the study of nature from the student's 

 point of view. It is the University 

 and not the Kindergarten. Whether 

 you are four or eighty-four it says, be 

 an original investigator; see things for 

 yourself; look into the thing, not into 

 what has been written about the thing; 

 what you find, not what someone tells 

 you to find ; begin with nature ; In the 

 words of the great scientist from 

 whom we take our name, "Study na- 

 ture, not books." The Association 

 does not stand for the Kindergarten 

 notion which says, "I will show you 

 how to play the game ; then we all 

 will play it." It does not tell you to 

 study this or that and to do it this 

 month, regardless of the fact that "this" 

 or "that" may be totally inaccessible to 

 you. 



Its officers have no salary. They glad- 

 ly give their time and their labor. It 

 confers honors where it sees honors are 

 especially due. There are no money 

 dividends. It is an Association for mu- 

 tual helpfulness, in which every mem- 

 ber, every Officer, every Councilor con- 

 tributes time or money, or both, to fur- 

 ther the original study of nature. The 

 AA believes that there can be no higher 

 occupation for the human mind and 

 nothing more inspiring than the con- 

 templation of some aspect of this beau- 

 tiful world. 



It frankly invites you and with no 

 secondary motive to join its ranks, to 

 help and to be helped, to give your time 

 and your mite of money to help your- 

 self and to help others, and to receive 

 gratefully the assistance that others can 

 give you. 



In this matter of mutual helpfulness 

 in the study of nature, by all ages and 

 in all places, the AA is the oldest, most 



