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THE GUIDE TO NATURE 



Academy Pupils Visit ArcAdiA. 



A party of twenty-six, including two 

 Chapters of The Agassiz Association 

 from the Greenwich Academy, visited 

 ArcAdiA yesterday afternoon from five 

 to half-past seven. The party was 

 first conducted through Little Japan, 

 and thence to the Observatory, where 

 they saw our moon and the planet Ju- 

 piter and his four moons. It was a 

 perfectly clear night and the heavens 

 were beautiful. The party afterwards 

 repaired to the Welcome Reception 

 Room where a bright fire in the spac- 

 ious fireplace and a generous supply 

 of hot chocolate and luncheon were 

 awaiting them. Here the party was 

 entertained with music and at the re- 

 quest of Dr Bigelow sang some of the 

 songs with which they were familiar. 



Dr. Bigelow then addressed the com- 

 pany, saying in part that The Agassiz 

 Association was an association that 

 had members all over the world, and 

 that all the members were equal in 

 power, for there was no chief. He im- 

 pressed upon the children the beauty 

 that they could find in the smallest, 

 and apparently most commonplace 

 objects, in nature that surrounds them 

 on all sides. Then he added that in 

 finding of such beauty there is a pleas- 

 ure that leads to an increased joy in 

 and that Science leads to, rather than 

 from, religion. 



Six new members were initiated into 

 the Academy Chapters, with the usual 

 ceremonies under the Swiss Cross. 



The powerful electric lantern, with 

 the aid of microscopes, revealed to 

 the company some of the wonders of 

 nature to be found in the study of 

 plants, animals and insects. — The 

 Greenwich News and Graphic. 



A thousand times have I sat beside a 

 rippling water-brook far from the 

 haunts and contentions of men and felt 

 every fibre of my system thrill with the 

 unspeakable joy of God's kindly pres- 

 ence. The splendid impressive solitude, 

 the luxuriant foliage, the happy birds, 

 the caroling stream at my feet filled my 

 soul with soothing peace, the peace that 

 passeth understanding. — Kit Clarke, in 

 "Forest and Stream." 



We Boldly Let the Secret Out. 



Occasionally the workers in ArcAdiA 

 hear in a roundabout way some such 

 remark as this : "Look at the way those 

 Bigelows work. There must be some- 

 thing in it for them. Look at the con- 

 tributions of cash and other things 

 that go to ArcAdiA. Surely no people 

 would work as they do unless they had 

 a good fat job." 



We hereby extend public thanks to 

 all those that in any manner have ex- 

 pressed appreciation of our zeal. Per- 

 haps there is no higher compliment, 

 especially from some of those who have 

 made the remark, than to say that we 

 are working as if we were digging in a 

 gold mine. My friend, we are. Pure 

 gold and plenty of it. We are getting 

 fat and rich with the joy of aiding. We 

 are accumulating great things as we 

 see it personally, and in our enormous 

 correspondence from shut-ins at hos- 

 pitals, from cripples, from profession- 

 al people at their desks, from those 

 kept bowed down to their daily tasks, 

 whether it is in the kitchen, the ofifice 

 or the factory ;. from those who get 

 their only contact with nature through 

 our pages. We reach those who are 

 bedridden and see the wild woods and 

 fields and look at the birds only in the 

 pages of The Guide to Nature. Yes, 

 we are working in a gold mine. Here 

 is a sample of it. Read this letter. 

 lora l. walker 

 dealer in 



SHOES & findings 

 GENOA JUNCTION, WISCONSIN. 



Genoa Junction, Wis. 

 Oct. 2ist, 1916. 

 Mr. Edward F. Bigelow, 



Sound Beach, Conn. 

 Dear Sir : — 



Inclosed please find check for $t.oo 

 to renew my subscription to The 

 Guide to Nature which is now past 

 due. I should have sent you the dollar 

 sooner but just couldn't spare it until 

 now. I enjov your magazine so much 

 that I can't give it up, though I know 

 I ought not to afiford it wdien we are 

 having such a struggle to make a liv- 

 ing. The love of nature is one of my 

 chief joys, especially the birds and 

 flowers, but I am interested in every 

 phase of it. If I were only rich enough 



