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three abominations which the love of 
birds and flowers may help to dispel. I 
trust that friends of nature study may 
make it possible to endow the institu- 
tion so fully that it may become a per- 
manent feature in the educational work 
of the nation. It will help new Agas- 
sizs and new Bigelows to arise when 
they are needed. 
“I may say that one of the efficient 
professors in Stanford University, 
Edwin Chapin Starks, was first drawn 
to biological study through The Agas- 
siz Association, and that his first ac- 
quaintance with me came from my 
answer to a question which he had sent 
to you. 
“I remember with great pleasure my 
visit to Sound Beach in 1912. I was 
strongly impressed with the field of 
work and I have always maintained the 
importance both moral and mental of 
an education which brings young 
people into contact with actual facts, 
things which they see for themselves 
and which come to them with a force 
beyond that of any tradition or con- 
ventional belief. 
“Sincerely yours, 
“(Signed) David Starr Jordan'.” 
Contributions. 
Left in Office by Unknown Contrib- 
utor $10.00 
Air. Thomas W. King, Sound 
Beach 10.00 
Aliss Carrie M. Jacobs, Hamil- 
ton, Ohio .50 
Nature Lover 100.00 
“Explorer in God’s Country” 25.00 
Airs. Helen Root Adams and 
daughters 5.00 
Hearty Assistant, Sound Beach_ 20.00 
Southern Botanist 5.00 
Miscellaneous Contributions. 
Airs. Allan F. Kitchel, Sound Beach: 
AYorm of the genus Mermis sensu lato. 
Misses Barbara and Elnora Kitchel. 
Sound Beach: Dragon fly. 
Air. Philip O. Gravelle, South 
Orange, N. J. : Set of forty-three stere- 
opticon slides. 
Air. H. E. Deats, Flemington, N. J. : 
Key tags. 
Afaster George Santy, Sound Beach: 
Twin squashes. 
Air. Ellis B. Noyes, Portsmouth, Va. : 
Card index of references to illustra- 
tions of grasses in pamphlets previous- 
ly contributed. 
Aliss Alargaret D. Jefferson, Brook- 
lyn, N. Y. : Bird’s nest. 
Thomas A. Edison, Inc., Orange, N. 
J. : Another liberal supply of records 
for the Edison Diamond Disc Phono- 
graph presented to The Agassiz Asso- 
ciation by Thomas A. Edison in 1916. 
Dr. Francis Rolt-AYheeler, Bee Tree 
P. O., North Carolina : Chambers of 
the nest of a mud dauber wasp con- 
taining larva and pupa and food sup- 
ply of spiders. 
Airs. Alary V. Crandall, Sound 
Beach : Caterpillar of Papilio turnus 
butterfly. 
Alaster Stanley Potter, Sound Beach: 
Pipefish ( Syngnathus fuscuvi). 
Airs. Newton, Sound Beach: Walk- 
ing stick insect ; limonite geode and 
remarkably good specimen of serpula 
on a cjuahog shell. 
The New York, New Haven and 
Hartford Railroad Company has re- 
cently contributed another supply of 
old plank from discarded railroad plat- 
forms. These will be used for the foun- 
dations of new walks in Nymphalia, 
our nature study park. 
White Herons at Bridgeport Seaside. 
Our good friend, I. Foster Aloore, of 
Bridgeport, Connecticut, sends us a 
clipping from the “Bridgeport Post” in 
reference to five American egrets that 
have been feeding on the flats where 
hundreds of people pass each day. The 
birds seem to realize that they are pro- 
tected, and are affording good oppor- 
tunities for observing them. The egret, 
as almost everybody knows, has been 
hunted for its beautiful plumes but the 
Federal Aligratory Treaty Act now 
gives the birds protection over all the 
United States. The only time that they 
are hunted in Connecticut is when 
Game Warden AYilbur F. Smith gets 
after them with his camera. The paper 
referred to speaks of this and of Mr. 
Smith’s impression that the Bridgeport 
Park System cooperates heartily in 
protecting the birds. 
