THE AGASSIZ ASSOCIATION 



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The Agassiz Association and Its 

 Home 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 Xon-Members (not accompanying 

 Members). Wednesdays and Saturdays, 

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

 by Special Invitation and Appointment. 

 ArcAdiA is not a Museum, not a Botan- 

 ical Garden, not a Zoo. Yet at different 

 times it has a few- special interests (under 

 special study) along some or all of these 

 lines. Our purpose is not so much to ex- 

 hibit nor to entertain, as to create a de- 

 sire to do what Agassiz so insisted upon — 

 that is. to "study xature.'' 



BOARD OF TRUSTEES. 



Corporators: Edward F. Bigelow, Ph. D., 

 Sound Beach. Conn., President and Treas- 

 urer; Hon. Homer S. Cummings, Stam- 

 ford, Conii., Secretary; Walter D. Daskam, 

 Stamford, Conn. Other Trustees: Harlan 

 H. Ballard. Pittsfield. Mass.. Honorary 

 Vice-President; Hiram E. Deats, Fleming- 



ton. New Jersey, Business Adviser and 

 Auditor: Dr. David Starr Jordan, Chancel- 

 lor Leland Stanford Junior University, 

 Stanford University, California, Dean of 

 Council: Dr. Leland O. Howard, Washing- 

 ton, D. C, Naturalist Adviser; Reverend 

 Charles Morris Addison, Stamford, Conn,; 

 George Sherrill, M. D., Stamford, Conn. 







Chapter Organization Expense 



Entrance Fee *^i -^; 



Handbook, "Three Kingdoms"... .75 

 Engraved Charter, in tube 1.00 $3.00 



ANNUAL DUES — PAYABLE IN ADVANCE. 



The Annual Dues for Chapter. .$2.00 



Annual Dues Members of 



Chapter Members @ 5c 



each — $ 



Total Necessary Expense to Chap- 

 ter upon Joining the Associa- 

 tion <c — 



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AGASSIZ AS A TEACHER 



HE spoke with intense earnestness and all his words 

 were filled with that deep religious feeling so char- 

 acteristic of his mind. For to Agassiz each natural 

 object was a thought of God, and trifling with God's truth 

 as expressed in Nature was the basest of sacrilege. 



And the Summer went on, with its succession of joj-ous 

 mornings, beautiful days, and calm nights, with every 

 charm of sea and sky: the master with us all day long, 

 ever ready to speak words of help and encouragement, evei 

 ready to give us from his own stock of learning. The 

 boundless enthusiasm which surrounded him like an at- 

 mosphere, and which sometimes gave the appearance of 

 great achievement to the commonest things was never 

 lacking. He was always an optimist, and his strength lay 

 largely in his realization of the value of the present mo- 

 ment He was a living illustration of the aphorism of 

 Thoreau. that "there is no hope for you unless the bit of 

 sod under your feet is the sweetest in this world — in any 

 world." The thing he had in hand was the thing worth 

 doing, and the men about him were the men worth ^elping 

 — Dai'id Slar-r Jorddn in ^'Agassiz at Fenikesf." 



Corresponding Member's Expense 



Entrance Fee $0.25 



Handbook, "Three Kingdoms" 75 



Certificate of Membership 50 



$1.50 



Annual Dues i.^o 



$3.00 



Student Members are required to make a 

 report at least once a year. This report 

 should contain not only a statement of 

 work done, but of "the promotion," "the 

 advancement," etc. See quotation from 

 Charter. We are to help others as well as 

 ourselves. Extend the influence of the AA. 



The Auuiial Dues include payment for sub- 

 seriptiou to The Guide to IVature. 



COOPERATING MEMBERSHIPS 



Sustaining Member (annually) $5 



Sustaining and Honorary (annually) . . $25 



Life Member (paid at one time) $100 



Patron (paid at one time) $1,000 



Founder $5,000 



Benefactor $25,000 



