What Our Visiting Parties Do. 
ArcAdiA, the Home of The Agassiz 
Association, has been as definitely 
planned and equipped to carry on the 
work of that Organization as is a fac- 
tory to produce a certain class of goods. 
The purposes of The Agassiz Associa- 
tion as set forth in the Charter of In- 
corporation may be summed up as “the 
general diffusion of knowledge” of na- 
ture. That work is carried on not only 
in the spirit of education but also of 
recreation permeated by a spiritual and 
a poetical point of view. We welcome 
all creeds or no creed. All phases and 
all ages of humanity we meet on the 
common ground of loving appreciation 
of Mother Nature. 
The program of the day is as follows : 
Parties arrive at 11:00 A. M. (or a 
little after that if they come by train 
from New York). 
1. The address of welcome at Hick- 
ory Home on the Pavilion of Little 
Japan. 
2. Disposal of wraps, packages, 
lunch boxes, etc. 
3. Committees set the tables on the 
Pavilion, make coffee, cook bacon and 
eggs, etc., on the grills. Members of 
the party not thus occupied spend their 
time in social conversation, examina- 
tion of the books in the Rest Cottage, 
playing the piano, singing, etc. 
4. Lunch is served on the Pavilion. 
This usually occupies about an hour 
completed by the restoring of tables, 
dishes, etc., to their perfect order ready 
for inspection about 1 :oo P. M. 
5. A walk through Nymphalia with 
explanations and inspirations pertain- 
ing to wild nature. This is really a 
communion with nature in her most 
primitive. form as it would be difficult 
to find in all the state a wilder tract of 
swamp land. 
6. Demonstrations with the honey- 
bees in our Educational Apiary. 
7. Visiting the Astronomical Observ- 
atory and learning the fundamental 
principles of popular astronomy. 
8. Visiting the Office, Laboratory 
and the formal garden, where are 
pointed out, in sharp contrast to the 
wild of Nymphalia, the beauties of 
formality in ideally balanced landscape 
architecture on small premises. This 
is to show the possibilities of really 
good arrangement in a small yard. 
9. Chair of Natural History — a five 
minute talk in the Welcome Reception 
Room. 
10. Phonographic Optical Projec- 
tion of Welcome. 
11. A lantern slide talk on the pur- 
pose of ArcAdiA and of The Agassiz 
Association concluding with projection 
microscope exhibition not equalled any- 
where else. 
12. Brief visit to Little Japan for 
social greetings and talking over the 
affairs of the day. 
Parties arriving at 4:00 P. M. usually 
remain until 10:00 or 10:30 P. M., hav- 
ing practically the same program with 
the exception that the honeybee demon- 
strations come immediately after the 
introductory talk. 
Rules of ArcAdiA. 
1. Parties must keep together while 
on the grounds. They are permitted to 
divide only in going down to the stores 
at the end of Arcadia Road. This point 
is absolutely insisted upon. At no time 
are visitors permitted on the grounds of 
ArcAdiA without a guide from the Of- 
fice, and parties may be divided only 
when each section has obtained such a 
guide. This is seldom if ever necessary. 
2. Nothing is to be picked in 
ArcAdiA — not even a leaf. 
3. Parties conducted around the 
premises must go single file because 
walks are narrow and there must be no 
stepping out of the path. We keep wild 
nature clear up to the walks and every- 
thing must be untrampled with the ex- 
ception of the ground of the apiary 
