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THE GUIDE TO NATURE 
the study of nature in Berkshire 
County. Interest and enthusiasm are 
increasing and our membership is 
growing. 
Mrs. F. C. Saul, 
Corresponding Secretary. 
Contributions. 
Mr. Clarence H. Crandall, Sound 
Beach $i.od 
“Good Friend” 25.00 
Mr. Theodore FI. Cooper, Ba- 
tavia, X*. Y. 3.00 
Mr. John D. Chapman, Green- 
wich 10.00 
Mr. Charles H. Lounsbury, 
Stamford 5.00 
Dr. George E. Vincent, Green- 
wich 10.00 
Miss Elizabeth D. Ferguson, 
Stamford 25.00 
Honorable Schuyler Merritt, 
Stamford 10.00 
Fir. Worcester R. Warner, Tar- 
rytown-on-Hudson, N T . Y 15.00 
Dr. George F. Kunz, New York 
City 10.00 
“Sympathetic Friend” 50.00 
“A Friend of Dr. Bigelow” 
(This form of publication by 
request) 50.00 
Visitors 1.00 
Mr. Arthur L. DeGroff, New 
York City 25.00 
New York Microscopical So- 
ciety 10.00 
Fir. Oliver D. Flead, Greenwich 10.00 
Financial Report of The Agassiz Associa- 
t'on, Inc., ArcAdiA: Sound Beach, Con- 
necticut. 
(Accepted by the Board of Trustees at the 
Annual Meeting on Agassiz’s Birthday, May 
28th, 1921.) 
Summary — Cash Received. 
April 1. 1920, to March 31, 1921, inclusive. 
From The Guide to Nature $5,404.82 
From Contribut'ons to Little Japan 527.53 
From Members’ Dues, Contribu- 
tions, etc. - — 1,337.07 
Total $7,269.42 
Summary — Cash Paid. 
April 1, 1920, to March 31, 1921, inclusive. 
For The Guide to Nature $5,184.15 
For Little Japan 320.46 
For General Expenses and Im- 
provements , — 1,668.11 
Total $7,172.72 
Sound Reach, Connecticut. 
The above is a correct summary of cash 
received and paid from April 1, 1920, to 
March 31, 1921, inclusive. 
(Signed) EDWARD F. BIGELOW, 
President. 
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 
12th day of May, 1921. 
(Signed) RALPH P. HOWARD. 
Notary Public. 
Auditors’ Statements. 
Stamford, Connecticut. 
This is to certify that I have examined 
the details of which the foregoing is a sum- 
mary and find all to be correct. 
(Signed) CLARENCE E. THOMPSON. 
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 
12th day of May, 1921. 
(Signed) RALPH P. HOWARD, 
Notary Public. 
I have gone over the record books of The 
Agassiz Association for the past year, and 
find them well and properly kept. The ex- 
penditures all seem to have been made in 
the interest of the Association and the fur- 
therance of its aims. 
(Signed) HIRAM E. DEATS, 
Member of Board of Trustees. 
Address: Flemington, New Jersey. 
May 28, 1921. 
We hear much complaint nowadays 
of the middlemen in commerce. They 
are too numerous, it is said, there are 
too many links in the chain connecting 
producer with consumer. But in the 
scientific field the fault is quite the 
opposite. There are too few middle- 
men, not enough qualified persons en- 
gaged in the transmission of newly dis- 
covered truth to the masses. V riters 
of all sorts have multiplied amazingly 
and acquired unprecedented skill, with 
the exception of writers of popular 
science. In this branch of literary art 
there is perhaps not an actual decline 
as compared with fifty years ago, but 
at least it may be safely said that it has 
not kept pace either with the advance 
of science or with the growth of scien- 
tific education. — By Edwin E. Slosson 
in “A Plea for Popuar Science.” 
Water does not taste good to us until 
we are thirsty. Before we ask ques- 
tions we must have questions to ask, 
and before we have questions to ask we 
must feel an awakened interest or curi- 
osity. Action and reaction go hand in 
hand ; interest begets interest ; knowl- 
edge breeds knowledge. Once started 
in pursuit of nature lore, we are pretty 
sure to keep on. When people ask me, 
“How shall we teach our children to 
love nature?” I reply: “Do not try to 
teach them at all. Just turn them loose 
in the country and trust to luck.’ It is 
