THE AGASSIZ ASSOCIATION. 



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AGASSIZ ASSOCIATION 



Personal Explanatory Note:— Only the adult interests in nature and the business details of organizing Chap- 

 ters are represented by this department. Original observations and inquiries from young folks (under eighteen years 

 of age) are referred to my department ("Nature and Science") in the '-St. Nicholas" magazine, published by The Cen- 

 tury Company, New York City.— Edward F. Bigelow. 



MOST MERITS FINANCIAL AID. 

 The Agassiz Association solicits your financial aid in its work of nature, 

 science and philanthropy on three distinct claims, every one of which will be 

 proved in detail upon application or opportunity. 



1. It is the oldest, most extensive and successful organization of its kind 

 in existence. 



2. Its great work of over a third of a century has been done with less 

 money to each person benefited, each task accomplished, than has any other 

 work that has ever existed for the uplift of humanity or the promotion of 

 knowledge. 



3. The faithful work of its Officers and Council, assistance without pay 

 or the expectation or desire for it, is unequalled by that of any other philan- 

 thropic or educational movement. 



Every Dollar is Expended, Directly and Net, for Actual Expenses. 



These are not mere claims; they are 

 facts that can be easily and gladly 

 proven to you. On this basis the con- 

 clusion is self-evident that a money 

 gift from you to the AA will "count" 

 for more than to any other organiza- 

 tion or purpose. 



This does not insist that you are to 

 give only to the AA more than it would 

 mean you must buy only a certain 

 kind of food if a chemist tells you that 

 one kind has the highest food value in 

 proportion to cost. 



Other organizations are doing good 

 work in science and philanthropy, but 

 analyze most of them and you will find 

 plenty of good or fair salaries for doing 

 it.. The AA has done its work for al- 

 most thirty-five years without any sal- 

 ary, or money remuneration in any 

 form to its promoters and workers. 



Every dollar you give goes directly to 

 the work, and, even more astonishing 

 and meritorious, no salaries are desired 

 for the future. Therefore we make the 

 claim that the AA not only merits your 

 financial aid but that it MOST does so. 

 The story is too long, the details are too 

 many, to be fully explained here. All 

 we ask now is INVESTIGATION. 



We need at once a FEW thousands 

 of dollars to complete the equipment 

 and to operate Arcadia for the great 

 work it has to do. 



Again we ask you to please INVES- 

 TIGATE. If we cannot prove what we 

 say, do not give a cent but publish our 

 claims as misleading. If we prove it, 

 give every dollar you can invest (and 

 tell your friends to do the same) in the 

 good of nature, science and humanity. 



