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THE GUIDE TO NATURE 



MR. WARNER AND HIS FAMILY WITH THE I'.EES. 



in numbers. Encouraged by that rec- 

 ollection and personally encouraged 

 by some of the company with him, he, 

 his wife, daughter, friend and chauf- 

 feur, together with a bee demonstrator 

 at ArcAdiA, explored the mysteries of 

 a hive as shown in the accompanying 

 illustration. We publish this photo- 

 graph with considerable hesitation be- 

 cause we fear that the many astrono- 

 mers who read this magazine may 

 think that we may destroy some of 

 Mr. Warner's interest in astronomy. 

 But he has astronomical enthusiasm 

 in superabundance. He will continue 

 to do justice to the observatory at his 

 beautiful residence at Tarrytown, 

 with enough spare time to give proper 

 attention to the apiary that as he sol- 

 emnly assured me in a burst of strict 

 confidence he, with the assistance of 

 John, would establish near the garage. 



Poet — "There are few things more 

 beautiful than sunrise in springtime." 



Gusher — "Oh, I could just watch it 

 all day long," — Life. 



The Superiority of the Edison. 



There surely is a difference between 

 the Edison Diamond Disc Re-Crea- 

 tions of music and the variety of 

 makes of "talking machines." We 

 want to say a word very strongly in 

 favor of the Edison, but not because 

 it was presented to The Agassiz As- 

 sociation by Thomas A. Edison him- 

 self. We have already said that and 

 thanks could be extended to him in a 

 few words. Neither Thomas A. Edi- 

 son nor his rapidly growing factory 

 needs our commendation, but to our 

 readers and to every friend of The Ag- 

 assiz Association we desire to make a 

 plain statement based on our reputa- 

 tion as a scientific establishment. The 

 new Diamond Disc has been in our 

 Welcome Reception Room long 

 enough for us to become thoroughly 

 familiar with it and we unhesitatingly 

 say that it is distinctly diflferent and 

 far superior in that difference to any 

 similar machine that has practically 

 the same general appearance. Even in 

 its own appearance it has that fine 



