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THE GUIDE TO NATURE 



Studying Nature in a Barn. 

 Forty-three years ago next summer, 

 Louis Agassiz established in a barn 

 on Penikese, an island ofif the southern 

 shore of Massachusetts, the most fam- 

 ous school for the study of nature that 



has ever existed. From that school 

 went out innumerable influences in var- 

 ious channels. A pupil, David Starr 

 Jordan, is at present a Trustee of The 

 Agassiz Association. The school was 

 held in a barn rather hurriedly fitted 



LOUIS AGASSIZ, THE MASTER TEACHER VV^HG INSPIRES EVERY AA MEMBER. 

 "He seldom spoke without a piece of chalk in his hand * * * * Those who saw his genial sniile that 

 portrayed his kindly heart * ♦ * * were influenced for life, and they in their turn have influenced thous- 

 ands of others." 



