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AGASSIZ ASSOCIATION’ 
Established 1875 Incorporated, Massachusetts. 1892 Incorporated. Connecticut, 1910 
Contributions. 
Mr. R. L. Agassiz, Hamilton, 
Mass. $20.00 
A Nature Lover i.oo 
Mr. Elisha P. Cronkhite, New 
York City 25.00 
Mr. S. C. Hunter, New Ro- 
chelle, N. Y 25.00 
“A Friend of Dr. Bigelow” (this 
form of publication by re- 
quest) 25.00 
Mrs. Theodore Peters, New 
York City 25.00 
Mr. E. D. Bird, Greenwich to.oo 
Mr. Hugo V. Loewi, White 
Plains, N. Y. 20.00 
Mr. Joseph E. Peloquin, Bridge- 
port, Conn. 1.00 
Mr. Edward A. Burdett, Stam- 
ford 2.00 
Mr. Charles A. Bruun, Kansas 
City, Missouri 10.00 
Mrs. Mitchell Kennerley, New 
York City 5.00 
Appreciative Friends, Sound 
Beach 20.00 
Mr. Charles H. Knapp, Sound 
Beach 18.75 
Mr. Harry C. Frost, Sound 
Beach 10.00 
Mrs. H. Durant Cheever, New 
York City 5. 00 
Mr. Robert Stewart, Sound 
Beach 25.00 
Mr. C. W. Kress, New York 
City 25.00 
Mr. William J. Johnson, New 
York City 15-00 
Sound Beach. 
Dr. Edward F. Bigelow lectured 
Monday evening, December 5, at the 
dinner of the Sunrise Club at the Cafe 
Boulevard, New York City. The sub- 
ject was “Girls, the Loveliest of All 
God’s Creations.” 
Miscellaneous Contributions. 
Mr. George B. Windsor, Stamford: 
Four photographic negatives of botan- 
ical interest. 
Mr. Leon Barritt, Brooklyn, N. Y. : 
Barritt-Serviss Star and Planet Finder. 
Miss Margaret Brooks, S o u n d 
Beach : Shells from the Panama Canal 
and a bird’s nest. 
Mrs. J. Allen Butler, Portland, 
Conn.: Copy of “The Youth’s Com- 
panion” of Thursday, December 2, 
1847, Vol. XXI, No. 31. 
Mrs. Newton, Sound Beach: Horse- 
shoe crab, barnacles and miscellaneous 
pebbles and shells. 
Mr. George Maurer, New York City: 
Framed “ArcAdiA” in marqueterie, in 
duplicate. 
We have long read of your work in 
your periodical and have had a faint 
impression that you were engaged in 
a praiseworthy enterprise, but we were 
not prepared to find the Bruce Museum 
and ArcAdiA of such high character 
and such models of what educational 
institutions should be. — Chas. G. Root, 
Waterbury, Connecticut. 
But here is something about vol- 
canoes that will surprise most people. 
They throw mud, they throw stones, 
but they don’t smoke. What we call 
smoke is the steam that makes — or at 
least helps make — the explosion. It 
often has the color of brown smoke 
because of the rock which has been 
blown into dust. Neither do volcanoes 
make “ashes.” What is called “ash” 
is this rock powder, made when the 
rocks are blown into pieces by the sud- 
den expansion of the water in them into 
steam. — Hallam Hawksworth in “The 
Strange Adventures of a Pebble.” 
