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THE GUIDE TO NATURE 



Mr. Clyde T. Ford, Sound Beach: 

 Horned toad and trapdoor spider from 

 California. 



Mr. A. C. Arnold, Stamford, Conn.: 

 Nest for woodpeckers made from slabs. 



Mr. H. E. Deats, Flemington, N. J.: 

 Grapevine galls. 



Master Joseph Palmer, Sound Beach : 

 Sea horse. 



Mrs. James W. Brice, Sound Beach: 

 Remarkable potato. 



Mr. Wiliam Mann, Sound Beach: Pup^ 

 of sphinx moth. 



Miss Edna S. Knapp, Caryville, Mass. : 

 Two paper cutters, one whittled from 

 barberry and the other from huckleberry. 



James McCurrach & Brother, New 

 York City : Three neckties ornamented 

 by a snowflake pattern. 



Mr. Thomas A. Edison, Orange, New 

 Jersey. Latest Laboratory Model of the 

 Diamond Disc Phonograph in finest ma- 

 hogany finish valued at $250, with a se- 

 lection of Re-Creation records to an ad- 

 ditional $250. 



Mr. Paul Lockwood, Waterbury, Con- 

 necticut : Unusually long dandelion stems, 

 one measuring thirty-two inches. 



United States Government and a num- 

 ber of other contributors : Potato seed 

 balls. None have been received from 

 Connecticut. 



Paying the Remainder Due on the Land 

 of The Agassiz Association. 



An effort is being made by The 

 Agassiz Association of Sound Beach to 

 pay off the remainder due on the land be- 

 longing to that Association. This was 

 purchased some five years ago and pay- 

 ments have been steadily made. Presi- 

 dent Edward F. Bigelow recently wrote 

 the following letter to a few friends. 

 Responses have come back sufficient to 

 encourage a general effort. The follow- 

 ing is a copv of the announcement : 



"FIVE YEARS November ist since 

 we settled in this ArCxA-diA. We origi- 

 nally purchased seven lots, each sixty 

 feet front — five on the installment plan 

 for The Agassiz Association and two for 

 the Bigelow familv. On the AA lots we 

 have paid off all but $1,2^0.87. Please 

 help us on that. Let us clean it up, that 

 our efforts mav be devoted directly to 

 the work of the AA. 



"We moved five buildings and placed 

 them on firm foundations. We have 

 erected and equipped the Welcome Re- 

 ception Room and an Astronomical Ob- 

 servatory. There are no claims on any 

 of the buildings or their contents. 



"In the recent great increase of regu- 

 lar expenses, this monthly payment on 

 the land becomes a serious problem. If 

 we could be free from that burden and 

 worry, we could carry the rest and do 

 better the work which steadily increases." 



In response to this appeal the follow- 

 ing letter was received from Commodore 

 E. C. Benedict, Greenwich, Connecticut: 



"In response to your letter of Septem- 

 ber 29, in regard to paying off the debt 

 of $1,250 on ArcAdiA, I beg to state I 

 will be one of five of our citizens, or its 

 equivalent by any other number subscrib- 

 ing $1,000, to make up the amount you 

 wish to pay off. 



"In a great rich town like this, I feel 

 sure if the work you are doing was as 

 well known generally as I know it to be, 

 the $1,000 to call my bluff would be 

 promptly subscribed, and you can show 

 this letter to anyone you please." 



As showing the interest in distant 

 places, a lawyer in Kansas City, Mis- 

 souri, writes as follows : 



"I am in receipt of your favor of the 

 3rd inst., wherein you speak of $1,250.87 

 still owed on The Agassiz Association 

 lots. 



"I feel that you should be relieved of 

 the burden. Is it possible to raise that 

 money by monthly payments of a small 

 sum? If fifty of us would contribute $1 

 per month each, we could soon 'wipe out' 

 the debt. 



"I will give $1 per month if you can 

 secure forty-nine others, or I will give $2 

 per month with twenty-four others and 

 continue the payments until the indebted- 

 ness shall have been paid." 



Mrs. E. H. Hooker, Greenwich. .$25.00 

 Mr. Thomas A. King, Sound Beach 10.00 

 Miss E. D. Ferguson, Stamford . . 25.00 



We quaffed of the mountains greatness, 

 Of the heights we felt the thrill, 



And the thought of those diamond moments 

 Inspires in memory still. 



— Emma Peirce. 



