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Talks by Dr. Bigelow Elsewhere. 



November 4tli : Waterside School, 

 Stamford. 



November 8th : Greenwich Farmer's 

 Club, Greenwich. 



November 9th: Woodcraft School, 

 Greenwich. 



Miscellaneous Contributions to 



ArcAdiA. 



Air. Stephen I. Clason, Sound Beach: 

 poker for mineralogical fireplace in the 

 Welcome Reception Room. 



Mr. John R. Gordon, New York City : 

 block of sulphur from Louisiana mines. 



Mr. Arthur Munson, Panama City, 

 Florida: shells from Florida. 



Mr. H. E. Beats, Flemington, New 

 Jersey : two pieces of coral and flicker 

 nest. 



Airs. \\'illiam Siegrist, Sound Beach: 

 portrait of Eouis Agassiz for the Wel- 

 come Reception Room. 



Mr. W\ Scott Lewis, Los Angeles, Cal- 

 ifornia : three slides for projection by 

 stereopticon. 



Aliss A. P. Cobb, Sound Beach : ter- 

 minal bud and stem through center of 

 rose. 



Miss Linda \¥orrell, Sound Beach: 

 large jack-in-the-pulpit. 



Airs. Frederick Gotthold, Cos Cob, 

 Connecticut : unusually large fasciated 

 stem of asparagus — flattened stem three 

 inches in diameter and five feet long ; egg 

 with peculiar markings. 



Aliss Poloma Engle, Sound Beach : 

 Actios luna moth. 



Air. Thomas O'Connor, Sound Beach : 

 large mourning horsefly, Tahanus atra- 

 tus. 



Aliss Natalie Roeth, Stamford : double 

 leaf of wild cherry. 



James Byrnes, Sound Beach : specimen 

 of Corydalis cornuta. 



Mr. Ellis B. Noyes, Portsmouth, Vir- 

 ginia : large herbarium. 



Mrs. Charles Engle, Sound Beach : bat 

 from Porto Rico. 



John Drenckhalm, Riverside, Connec- 

 ticut: larva of moth (Sibine stimulea). 



Air. Wm. J. Blackburn. Jr., Adena. 

 Ohio : specimen of Calamite or "horse- 

 tail." 



Aliss Helene Edmonds, Sound Beach: 

 string of egg cases of whelk {Fulg^ur 

 canaliculata). 



Aliss Winifred Stoner, Jr., Wilming- 

 ton, North Carolina: living specimens 



of carnivorous plants — Venus flytrap 

 pitcher plant and trumpet plants and 

 their bloom. 



Excelsior Hardware Company, Stam- 

 ford : burnishing and lacquering candle- 

 sticks for the fireplace in the Welcome 

 Reception Room. 



Reverend Lewis W. Barney, Ph. D., 

 Sound Beach : decorative drawing of 

 Biblical texts (God's Works). 



Yerkes Observatory, Williams Bay, 

 Wisconsin : eighteen astronomical trans- 

 parencies. 



Lick Observatory, Alount Hamilton, 

 California: illustrated volumes of star 

 fields, nebulae, comets, etc. 



United States Coast Survey, Washing- 

 ton, D. C. : large chart showing details 

 from Shippan Point to Captain's Island 

 and northward to the railroad, 



LInited States Naval Observatory, 

 Washington, D. C. : "The American 

 Ephemeris" for 1915-1916. 



"Everyone to Her Taste" 



Heading, of Leading Editorial of Stamford 

 Evening Star. 



As the sweet young thing said when 

 she kissed her Boston brindle pup. 



The visitors wished to see the aver- 

 age life of Connecticut folks so we took 

 the Post Road to Bridgeport. 



Cove Pond and Percy's — hospitality, 

 rest, geniality. Then onward through 

 bright, lively, pretty Norwalk ; onward, 

 across the bridge (at your own risk) — 

 on to Bridgeport, brilliant in every 

 way ; stylish girls and fellows, firm and 

 vigorous movement, vibrant life. 



Let us see all of Bridgeport; so the 

 six-cylinder Haynes pauses at the 

 cabaret. 



Don't abandon hope, ye who enter, 

 but get on while you are still normal ! 



Noise ! Noise ! ! Noise ! ! ! 



Noisy sounds from the piano ; noisy 

 sounds by a good voice that knows 

 nothing of the art of singing, noisy talk, 

 noisy laughter, exceedingly noisy cos- 

 tumes, noisome air and fortissimo 

 marks on the thermometer. 



How poor the things that cost so 

 dear ! Fresh air is free, stale air costs 

 by the minute. The genial family with 

 its handsome sons and pretty daugh- 

 ters, has the latch string out ; the un- 

 clean cabaret with its stench and rouge 

 taxes you at the door. Pure water and 

 delicious viands bestow^ed without 



