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Volume XIY. 
OCTOBER, 1921 
Number 5 
ARCADIA AND THE BRUCE MUSEUM 
The Importance of these Educational, Natural History Institutions, espe- 
cially to the People of Greenwich, Stamford, and Their Vicinity. 
By Edward F. Bigelow, ArcAdiA: Sound Beach, Connecticut. 
T HESE two educational institu- 
tions have been developed under 
my executive management, each 
under the direction of its efficient 
Board of Trustees. It is therefore espe- 
cially fitting that I give the people of 
this part of Fairfield County, who can 
most readily make personal use of both 
institutions, a distinct and well marked 
understanding of what have been the 
ambitions and purposes in establishing 
these institutions, what has already 
been accomplished, what it is purposed 
to do in the future, and why I hope to 
obtain a large measure of local co- 
operation. 
ArcAdiA, the older institution, is 
primarily for nature study, while the 
Bruce Museum, near the Greenwich 
railroad station, is primarily for exhibi- 
tion of the objects of natural history, 
history and art that have been col- 
lected. studied or produced by other 
workers. Of course the museum also 
inspires study and quite naturally Ar- 
cAdiA has on exhibition specimens 
that have been studied, but these minor 
products in no way change the main 
purposes of either institution. 
And it should be noted further that 
the two are in no sense competitive. 
They are intended to be and are active- 
ly co-operative. In the schools we have 
been taught the verbal distinction — 
established originally, I believe, by 
Professor L. H. Bailey — that science 
considers chiefly the subject but nature 
study the pupil. A similar distinction 
exists between the two institutions in 
Fairfield County. The Bruce Museum 
points primarily at the things while 
ArcAdiA regards first of all the student 
and thinker. 
ArcAdiA has been developed under 
the auspices of The Agassiz Associa- 
tion. This was organized in Lenox, 
Massachusetts, in 1875. and soon after 
was transferred to Pittsfield, thence in 
1907 to Stamford. Connecticut, and in 
1909 to Sound Beach. The six build- 
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