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THE GUIDE TO NATURE 
ings of the old ArcAdiA were moved 
to the present location in 1911. Since 
then seven new buildings have been 
added. 
On the front door of the office is a 
panel with the words, “Study Nature,” 
quoted from the famous slogan of 
Louis Agassiz at his laboratory on the 
Island of Penikese in 1873. These two 
words reveal ArcAdiA’s purpose — 
ArcAdiA, a place for the observer, the 
thinker, the inquirer. It is a place in 
which any organization may leave its 
workaday world in Stamford, in Green- 
wich, and in their vicinity, and as- 
semble for education and recreation in 
nature. It is not a picnic ground. It 
will not be at the disposal of visitors 
who seek it only for that purpose. 
There must be the intent of serious 
communion with Mother Nature. A 
minimum amount of fun, frolic, so- 
ciability and good things to eat must 
be minor matters in order to secure the 
privileges of the place and the time of 
the managers. “Study Nature” here 
stands supreme. Those who come with 
serious intent will never be disap- 
pointed and will never be unwelcome. 
Here on the part of every one. young 
or old, rich or poor, wise or otherwise 
they will find enthusiastic zeal for ob- 
servation. The institution believes in 
the supremacy of the individual, each 
in his own favorite realm of seeing and 
telling. 
The Agassiz Association is under the 
management of a Board of nine Trus- 
tees: Edward F. Bigelow. Ph. D., 
Sound Beach, Conn., President and 
Treasurer: Honorable Homer S. Cum- 
mings, Stamford, Conn., Secretary; 
Harlan H. Ballard — Originator, 1875. 
and President for thirty-two years — 
Pittsfield, Mass.. Honorary Vice-Presi- 
dent : Hiram E. Deats, Flemington, N. 
J., Business Adviser and Auditor; Dr. 
David Starr Jordan. Chancellor Leland 
Stanford Junior University. Calif., 
Dean of Council ; Dr. Leland O. How- 
ard. Chief of Bureau of Entomology, 
Washington. D. C.. Naturalist Adviser; 
Reverend Charles Morris Addison. D. 
D., Cambridge. Mass ; George Sher- 
rill. M. D.. Stamford. Conn.; (Miss) 
Nellie P. Bigelow. Sound Beach, Conn., 
Secretary to the President and Assist- 
ant Editor of The Guide to Nature. 
A circular giving full particulars of 
that incorporation will be mailed tc 
any one upon application. 
The Bruce Museum. 
The Bruce Museum in the large stone 
building near the Greenwich railroad 
station was established August 4, 1908, 
by the late Robert M. Bruce. He gave 
his homestead and $50,000 to the Town 
of Greenwich for “a natural history, 
historical and art museum for the use 
and benefit of the public, in such man- 
ner and under such rules as may be pre- 
scribed by the Selectmen of the Town 
and Trustees.” The museum was to 
be developed by a Board of Trustees 
appointed in the Deed of Trust. The 
original Board of Trustees was as fol- 
lows : E. C. Benedict, William J. 
Smith. Edmund C. Converse and W. 
H. Truesdale of Greenwich and Edwin 
L. Scofield of Stamford. This Board 
was succeeded on March 1, 1918, by 
the following: Frederick A. Hubbard, 
Walter M. Anderson, Wilbur S. Wright 
and Augustus I. Mead of Greenwich. 
Part of the development, notably the 
construction of the gallery, was made 
by the original Board, under the execu- 
tive management principally of the late 
William J. Smith. Apparently that 
Board was puzzled to know how to 
continue the work because in the first 
week of 1912 they inserted in the 
Greenwich papers a half page adver- 
tisement asking for information as to 
what was required and as to available 
donations of exhibits. I at once con- 
ferred with the Honorable Edwin L. 
Scofield and occasionally thereafter for 
over three years, receiving on Novem- 
ber 23, 1915, definite request to go 
ahead and prepare plans. These were 
accepted at a joint meeting of the 
Board of Trustees and the Board of 
Selectmen on May 22. 1916, and pub- 
lished to the extent of three columns in 
local papers. 
I devoted almost nine years to the 
development of the museum (from 
January, 1912, to October, 1920) with- 
out any money remuneration. Have 
since then recewed fifty dollars a month 
from the Town as Curator. The Town 
accepted the museum in the autumn of 
1920. Its development has been and 
still is under the care of a Board of 
Trustees. The work continues at pres- 
ent under the combined auspices of the 
Board of Trustees and the Board of 
Selectmen (Oscar D. Tuthill. Harold 
W. Allen and John Broderick) of the 
Town of Greenwich. There is also an 
