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THE GUIDE TO NATURE 



Our Income. 



1. Membership Fees. You are eligible 

 for membership if you approve of the 

 work as here outHned. Full particulars 

 upon application. 



2. Subscriptions and Advertisements. 

 The Guide to Natue is growing. It 

 now has a circulation of three thousand. 

 Help it grow. You may thus extend and 

 aid our work. 



3. Cash Contributions. These have 

 come from all parts of the world and 

 have been an important factor in sus- 

 taining the work. 



4. Rentals of Parts of ArcAdiA. 

 From the Bigelow family for garden and 

 pet house. From Mrs. Blakely for the 

 site for her Botany Bungalow. She owns 

 her house, pays rental for land, her mem- 

 bership dues, and gives her services free- 

 ly to the botanical students of the A A. 



Inspection and Cooperation. 



The cashbooks for any year may be in- 

 spected by any Member or Contributor. 

 Every detail of the work will be made 

 clear to any one that wants to know. We 

 need more money and have full confi- 

 dence that with increased knowledge by 

 our Members and friends and by the 

 public in general as to the exact situa- 

 tion, it will be freely given. 



Here is a work of merit that in which 

 the interests of humanity should be pro- 

 perly financed for full efficiency. Nowhere 

 else in all the world has so much been 

 accomplished in forty years with so little 

 money ; nowhere has there been greater 

 faithfulness, or more devoted service, or 

 a greater ideal for the uplift, the educa- 

 tion, the improvement of humanity. 

 Edward F. Bigelow^ President, 

 The Agassiz Association, Inc., 

 ArcAdiA, Sound Beach, Conn. 



The Agassiz Association and Its 

 Arcadia Are for You. 



To create and increase a knowledge 

 and love of nature. You are not too rich, 

 nor too poor; not too wise nor too ig- 

 norant ; not too young nor too old, to 

 share in their benefits. 



VISITING DAYS. 



To Members (and accompanying 

 Friends). All Days. Special personal 

 attention, if an appointment is made by 

 telephone or otherwise. 



To Non-Members (not accompanying 

 Members). Wednesdays and Saturdays, 

 .3 :oo to 5 :oo P. M., and at other times 



by Special Invitation and Appointment. 



The Agassiz Association's Home (Ar- 

 cAdiA) is for Study and Research, and 

 for the Giving of Information upon any 

 phase of nature to any person that de- 

 sires to know. It is also intended to cre- 

 ate a desire to know. 



It is a Clearing House for an inter- 

 change of observations by its Council 

 and Members. 



It is not a Museum, not a Botanical 

 Garden, not a Zoo. 



Yet at dififerent times it has a few 

 special interests (under special study) 

 along some or all of these lines. Our 

 purpose is not so much to exhibit nor to 

 entertain, as to create a desire to do 

 what Agassiz so insisted upon — that is, 

 to "study nature," and to aid in that 

 studv. 



YEARLY CASH REPORT. 



Approved at the Annual Meeting on May 28th 

 1915 



SUMMARY— CASH RECEIVED 

 From The Guide to Nature - - - $4,648.56 

 From Members' Dues, Contributions, 



etc - ---- 1,398.41 



Total $6,046.97 

 SUMMARY— CASH PAID 

 For The Guide to Nature - - - $4,972.20 

 For General Expenses and Improve- 

 ments --- - 1,074.77 



Total $6,046.97 



The above is a correct summary of cash re- 

 ceived and paid from April i, 1914, to March 31, 

 1915, inclusive. 



(Signed) Edward F. Bigelow, 

 Subscribed and sworn to before me this 23rd 

 day of April, 1915. 



(Signed) Harry C. Frost 

 (Sound Beach, Conn.) Notary Public. 



This is to certify that I have examined the de- 

 tails of which the foregoing is a summary and 

 find all to be correct. 



(Signed) Clinton R. Fisher 

 (Stamford, Conn.) Auditor for the Public. 



Subscribed and sworn to before me this nth 

 day of May, 1915- 



(Signed) Clarence E. Thompson 

 (Stamford, Conn.) Notary Public 



I have gone over the detailed cash account of 

 the A A and Guide to Nature for the year 

 ending Mar:h 31, 1915, and find them correct, as 

 stited, and am satisfied that the expenditures 

 have been made wisely 



(Signed) Hiram E. Deals, 

 (Flemington, N. J.) Auditor for Trustees. 



May 28, 1915 



