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THE GUIDE TO NATURE 
Contributions to Little Japan. 
Mrs. S. O. Edmonds, Stamford $10.00 
Mr. E. C. Converse, Greenwich 20.00 
Mr. Russell A. Cowles, New 
York City 5.00 
Mrs. Zenas Crane, Dalton, 
Mass 10.00 
Mr. Esau Hartwright, Sound 
Beach 5.00 
Miss Elizabeth D. Ferguson, 
Stamford 15.00 
Mr. Ed. Sandreuter, Stamford 5.00 
Mrs. Frederick T. Towne, No- 
roton, Conn. 1.00 
F. H. Barnes, M. D., Stamford 10.00 
Mr. Walter E. Houghton, 
Stamford 5.00 
Dr. Robert T. Morris, New 
York City 5.00 
Mr. William J. Johnston, New 
York City 10.00 
Mr. Joseph AT P h i 1 b r i c k , 
Sound Beach 5.00 
Miss Gabrielle Amuat, New 
York City 1.00 
Dr. George F. Kunz, New York 
City 5.00 
Mrs. Fitch A. Hoyt, Stamford 5.00 
Judge Charles D. Lockwood, 
Stamford 5.00 
Dr. George B. Palmer, New 
York City 5.00 
Hart Chapter, Stamford 5.00 
Mrs. Benjamin F. Palmer, 
Sound Beach 10.00 
Miss Rhoda Cornish, Sound 
Beach, in memory of her 
father, Lieutenant George H. 
Cornish, 1886-1918 5.00 
Mr. Frank J. Myers, Ventnor, 
N. J 8.00 
$155.00 
Previously acknowledged-- 2,351.17 
Total $2,506.17 
Total Expenditures Little 
Japan 3 - 6 o 4- 8 5 
Needed in Further Contribu- 
tions $1,098.68 
Miscellaneous Contributions. 
Mrs. Frederick C. Bursch, Riverside, 
Conn. : Hornet nest. 
Mr. and Mrs. Edward Eyre Hunt, 
Riverside, Conn. : Monkey slug cater- 
pillar ( Phobetrcm pithecium) . 
Mrs. Charles H. Knapp, Sound 
Beach : Double daisy. 
Mr. L. A. Hailand, Mamaroneck, N. 
Y. : Walking stick insect ( Diaphero 
mer a femorata). 
Reverend Lewis W. Barney, Ph. D., 
Sound Beach : Mouse nest with young 
mice. 
Thomas A. Edison, Inc., Orange, N. 
J. : Diamond Disc Phonograph records. 
Mr. Frederick Hayes, Sound Beach: 
Part of deer antler. 
Young Folks’ Impressions of Nature. 
Some of the most astonishing things 
that we have ever discovered in the 
study of nature are the curious impres- 
sions that many persons and especially 
the young folks sometimes receive when 
their attention is called to observations 
of natural objects. Some day some one 
may try to explain psychologically why 
the moment one attempts to observe 
nature the world will at times seem to 
be unreal. Recently a party was being 
shown through ArcAdiA. One of the 
little girls viewed the heavily laden 
grapevines on our arbors and on the 
garden fence and seriously and earnest- 
ly inquired if the grapes were real. A 
bunch was handed to her and she was 
told to test them. Even after that we 
are inclined to think that she regarded 
grapes in a nature study place as some- 
thing out of the ordinary kind of 
grapes. 
A church organization from Stam- 
ford to the number of more than thirty 
recently spent the evening in Little 
Japan, bringing a picnic lunch with 
them. They had a really social time. 
When the party first arrived a small 
boy was observed to be unusually im- 
patient. He kept asking father and 
mother, “When are we going? When 
are we going to go?’’ The guide in 
charge of the party inquired of the boy, 
“What do you mean bv ‘going to go’? 
Going where? You are here now.” 
“Yes,” he replied, “but when are we 
going to see the bugs?” 
Do not laugh at him on account of 
his curious youthful notion for we had 
a more marvelous experience with two 
prominent, efficient business men of 
Riverside. After they had completed 
a tour of the premises they gazed at 
each other and both laughed heartily. 
Upon inquiry as to the cause of such 
