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THE GUIDE TO NATURE 



the telescope, while for all other stars 

 a constant adjustment is needed to 

 keep the object in sight. Polaris is a 

 double separable by even a small tele- 

 scope. The six inch clearly shows it 

 as a double. 



Appointments to view the heavens 

 through the telescope on clear evenings 

 should be made by telephone, so as to 

 prevent overcrowding in the small 

 (twelve by twelve) observatory. Those 

 that wish to study popular astronomy 

 systematically may arrange now for a 

 series of absolutelv free lessons. 



Contributions to the Sound Beach 

 Observatory. 



Mrs. M. Kennerley, Mamaroneck, 



N. Y., $ lo.oo 



Greenwich Farmers' Club, Green- 

 wich 5.00 



Mr. George Lauder, Jr., Green- 

 wich (Increase — total $50.00).. 25.00 



A Friend, Stamford (Increase — 



total $13.00) 10.00 



A Friend, Sound Beach 10.00 



R. Hertzberg, M.D., Stamford. . 5.00 



Mrs. Pauline Agassiz Shaw, Ja- 

 maica Plains, Mass 50.00 



Judge Charles D. Lockwood, 



Stamford 5.00 



A Friend. Stamford 5.00 



Ivcwis W. Barney, Ph.D., Sound 

 Beach 5.00 



Miss May L. Tohnson, Morris 



Park, N. Y...; 50 



Miss Elizabeth D. Ferguson. 



Stamford 20.00 



Mr. Stephen I. Clason, Sound 



Beach i .00 



Mr. R. L. Agassiz, Boston, Mass., 20.00 



Mr. Howard H. Cleaves, New 



Brighton, N. Y 3.00 



Total $174.50 



Previously acknowledged $758.08 



Grand Total $932.58 



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Mrs. Pauline Agassiz Shaw is the 

 daughter of Louis Agassiz from whom 

 The Agassiz Association is named. In 

 sending her contribution, she writes as 

 follows : 



"I enclose with pleasure $50 for your 

 telescope and congratulate you on the pur- 

 chase of Clark's wonderful instrument 

 which I well know, I am sorry I cannot 

 send more. 



"1 think \our family of students will 

 have some wonderful revelations by 

 means of this telescope." 



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Mr. Howard H. Cleaves writes us : 



"You may thank the quartz-like 

 clearness of the sky last night for the 

 inclosure, which is for the Observatory 

 Fund. 



"My bed is so near the window that 

 I can thrust my head out into the open 

 the second I hear a screech owl, or the 

 notes of any migratory birds. This 

 I did last night and after the bird 

 sounds had ceased I fell to gazing at 

 the stars and wondering about them. 

 The twinkling of the stars reminded 

 me of the radiant optimism of the Sage 

 of Sound Beach — and from this it was 

 perhaps only a natural sequence of 

 meditation that led me to recall the 

 need of funds for the Observatory ! 



"It isn't always that one's night 

 thoughts are found to be substantial 

 the next morning ; but in this instance 

 my faith has boldly held until I have 

 reached my check-book." 



Trained Aircraft Guns on Jupiter. 



Paris. — Jupiter, looming up especially 

 brilliant nowadays, has been frequently 

 mistaken for the searchlight of an aero- 

 plane flying over Paris. Gunners at the 

 front have made the same mistake, and 

 prepared to train their anti-aircraft 

 weapons against it. The well known as- 

 tronomer, Abbe Moreaux, says he has 

 received a great many letters from them 

 asking particulars about this great light 

 in the East, brought to their notice for the 

 first time by the war. Abbe Moreux 

 infers from the mass of correspondence 

 received that thousands of soldiers 

 oblig-'ed to pass the night under the open 

 sky, are acquiring an interest in the won- 

 ders and beauties of nature that other- 

 wise they would have passed their lives 

 without. — Newspaper. 



Purple and Gold. 



The first flower colors are purple and gold. 



Behold when crocus buds unfold.. 

 And when the season's latest blooms 



Unfurl their brilliant, wayside plumes, 

 Are purple and gold again abroad. 



In aster rays, and golden-rod: 

 While linking the two the year around, 



Are sunset clouds, gold-purple crowned. 

 — Emma Peirce. 



