374 THE GUIDE TO NATURE 



FOR GROWTH AND EFFICIENCY Miscellaneous Contributions to 



ArcAdiA. 



Members and Other Friends Who have Mr. S. C. Hunter, New Rochelle, 



Aided in the Expenses of The New York : sun diagonal for telescope. 



Agassiz Association. The Greenwich Library, Greenwich, 



Mr. Ellis B. Noyes, Virginia — - Connecticut: five scientific books, 



balance of $i.oo per month Mr. R. M. Allen, East Orange, New 



for one year $ 5.00 Jersey: microscopical mount of wolf 



Reverend Charles Morris Ad- spider. 



dison, Stamford 5.00 Mr. H. E. Beats, Flemington, New 



Miss Dorothy A. Baldwin, Jersey : three waste baskets similar to 



Massachusetts 5.00 several previously supplied. 



"Neighbor," Sound Beach .... 10.00 Mrs. George Peirce, New York 



"Land Aid," Massachusetts 50.00 City : interesting botanical specimens. 



Miss Frances H. Errett, Ohio 50.00 ■ 



Mr. Samuel P. Avery, Connec- "To Change this Weakness into 



ticut— $25.00 and $50.00.... 75.00 Strength." 



"Interested Visitor," Stamford 2.00 [extract from a member's letter] 



Mrs. O. H. Stevens, Massa- I confess that the connection of theo- 



chusetts 2.00 retical studies with the real life that 



Mr. H. E. Valentine, Massa- is throbbing around us in our imme- 



chusetts 1. 00 diate neighborhood, is not alive enough 



Miss Helen Zipfel, Connecticut i.oo at least in my case, and that it is a 



"A Lover of Astronomy," Mas- strong desire in me to change this 



sachusetts — at $25.00 per weakness into strength. Therefore I 



month 225.00 have gladly become a Member of The 



Mr. Walter Neumuller, Sound Agassiz xA.ssociation. 



Beach 2.00 I am strongly interested in opening 



Mr. Frank J. Myers, Pennsyl- my children's and my pupils' eyes to 



vania 8.50 tbe wonderful Book of Nature around 



Honorable Zenas Crane, Mas- them, of which they are an integral 



sachusetts 50.00 part themselves, and to protect them 



"Wishes for Success," Stam- from becoming mere theoretical book- 

 ford 25.00 worms, as I had been one during a cer- 



Mr. Ed. Sandreuter, Stamford 10.00 tain period of my life. 



"The Right Spirit," Stamford 20.00 But of course a one-eyed man is a 



Chapter No. 1015, Glenbrook, poor guide for the blind ones, and 



Connecticut 3.00 therefore I am longing to get the old 



"Timely Assistance," Massa- bookworm dust off my mind and es- 



chusetts 100.00 tablish more immediate connections 



The Fairhope League, Green- with Mother Nature. — L. Schwiers, 



wich 5.00 Teacher, Lower Lake, Lake County, 



Mr. B. M. Ayres, Stamford .... 5.00 California. 



Mr. Henry Miller, North Stam- 



ford . 25.00 He Sets a Good Example. 



Kansas City, Missouri. 



$684.50 Dear Dr. BigeloAv: 



Aid on the Loan ($197.20) from the The March issue of The Guide to 



AA General to the Fund for the Nature at hand. Turning its pages, 



Astronomical Observatory. I find, on page 334, that you owe the 



Mrs. Charles Tarbell Dudley AA general fund nearly $200, borrow- 



Greenwich $10.00 ed for the observatory. I enclose check 



Mr. Charles A. Brunn, Kansas for $10. 



City, Missouri 10.00 You have done splendid work in se- 



curing the observatory. AA members 



$20.00 and friends should permit you to bal- 



ance your books without a deficit. 



Just as we go to press the remainder Wishing you abundant success, I re- 



of this loan, with a surplus to the AA, main, 



has been paid by an amateur astrono- Very truly, 



^.|gj. Chas. a. Bruun. 



