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THE GUIDE TO NATURE 





AGASSIZ ASSOCIATION 



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Established 1875 Incorporated, Massachusetts, \i 



Incorporated, Connecticut, 1910 



A Mineralogist and an Astronomer 

 among the Bees. 



A few months ago a local newspaper 

 editor speaking of the delights of Ar- 

 cAdiA made the rather astonishing as- 

 sertion that those that come to scoflf 

 remain to pray. That pleases us be- 



a conversion. "Oh, no, no," exclaimed 

 the visitor, "you don't get me near 

 those bees. Ever since I was very 

 young bees have had a grudge against 

 me. I know some people can do any- 

 things with bees but I am dififerent — " 

 "Now, stop right there. We have 



DR. KUNZ AND HIS DAUGHTER IN THEIR FIRST ACQUAINTANCE WITH HONEYBEES. 



cause we do try to impress our visitors 

 with the sacredness of nature. 



But there is another point of view, 

 and the editor might truthfully have 

 said, so far as the honeybees are con- 

 cerned, that those persons that come to 

 run remain to fondle and to love. Time 

 and again the managers at ArcAdiA 

 have had the satisfaction of seeing such 



heard that remark four thousand six 

 hundred and seventy-five times; we 

 know what you are going to say ; don't 

 take time to finish the sentence. Come 

 and see the bees." 



It takes a little persuasion at first 

 but after a while we are delighted to 

 see the visitors get into the very heart 

 of the hive and become intimately ac- 



