UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA 
 AT LOS ANGELES 
 
 ROBERT ERNEST COWAN
 
 >OOK
 
 HAND-BOOK 
 
 ST. NICHOLAS 
 
 BY HARLAN H. BALLARD, 
 
 PRINCIPAL OF LENOX ACADEMY. 
 
 gditiow. 
 
 Bring us the airs of hills and forests, 
 The sweet aroma of birch and pine, 
 
 Give us a waft of the north-wind laden 
 With sweetbrier odors, and breath of kine : 
 
 LENOX, MASS. 
 PUBLISHED BY THE AUTHOR. 
 
 1884.
 
 Copyright, 1882, 
 BY H. H. BALLARD. 
 
 Press of the Sun Printing Company, Pittsfield, Mass.
 
 HISTORY OF 
 
 THE ORIGIN. 
 
 The Agassiz Association, for the observation and 
 study of natural objects, was founded in 1875 by 
 the writer, in connection with a school which 
 he was then teaching in Lenox, Mass. It was 
 the outgrowth of a life-long love for Nature, 
 and a belief that education is incomplete unless it 
 include some practical knowledge of the common 
 objects that surround us. For several years the 
 little school society continued its work pleasantly 
 and with profit. The President gradually came to 
 the opinion (strengthened by reading an account of 
 a somewhat similar, though far more limited, organ- 
 
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 ization in Switzerland), that there might be other 
 communities in which a like society would be wel- 
 comed, and several branch societies were organized. 
 To test the matter more fully, having obtained the 
 cordial co-operation of the editors of the ST. NICH- 
 OLAS, the leading publication for the young in the 
 United States, a general invitation to unite in the 
 work was published in 1880, in the November num- 
 ber of that magazine. It was substantially as fol- 
 lows : 
 
 THE INVITATION. 
 
 You must know that, across the ocean and over 
 the Alps, the boys and girls of Switzerland have a 
 bright idea. They have formed a society, and they 
 have a badge. The badge is a spray of evergreen, 
 and the society is a Natural History Society. 
 
 Once a year, in the spring time, when the sun has 
 lifted the ice-curtain from the lakes, so that the fishes 
 can look out, and the flowers can look in, the child- 
 ren from far and near come together for a meeting 
 and a holiday. They are the boys and girls for a 
 tramp. Their sturdy legs and long staves, their 
 strong bodies and short dresses, their gay stockings 
 and stout shoes prove that beyond a question. 
 
 The long golden hair of the girls, tightly braided 
 and firmly knotted with gay ribbons, flashes brightly 
 as they go clambering over rocks, leaping across 
 rivulets, scrambling along glaciers, and climbing 
 steep cliffs. 
 
 When the village schoolmaster, who usually leads 
 these excursions, blows his horn, back come the 
 children like laughing echoes, with baskets, pockets, 
 boxes and bags full of the treasures of the wood.
 
 History of the A. A. 5 
 
 Then they eat their dinner as we would take a 
 picnic, and after that, spread out their trophies, and 
 decide who has found the most, and who the rarest. 
 They get the master to name them, if he can, and 
 laugh in mischievious triumph when he fails. 
 
 With the lengthening shadows, the children return 
 to their homes, and arrange their mosses, ferns and 
 flowers, their pebbles, and beetles and butterflies, 
 in cabinets, and declare, in their quaint accents, that 
 they have had a glorious time. And have they not ? 
 The fresh, crisp air, the holiday, the sunshine, the 
 picnic, the gathered specimens, and a teacher to tell 
 them Latin names ! No wonder they enjoy it. 
 Would not you ? 
 
 But on reflection we have all those things in this 
 country,could we once bring them together in the right 
 proportions. We have holidays enough there are 
 Saturdays. School-masters are as plentiful as schools. 
 This is the same sun that shines on Switzerland, 
 and it can find golden hair to kindle, without waiting 
 for the sea to turn under it. Why, then, cannot we 
 have a Natural History Society in America ? In 
 fact, we already have a little one, up here in these 
 Berkshire Hills. And we enjoy it so thoroughly, 
 and learn so much from it, that we wish it to grow 
 larger. 
 
 Not many of you need be told why we have 
 named our Society " TH AGASSIZ ASSOCIATION." 
 There are few readers of St. Nicholas that have not 
 heard something of the life and work of that famous 
 man so universally honored and beloved Profes- 
 sor Louis Agassiz. In 1846 the great Naturalist left 
 his native Switzerland, made America his home, ac- 
 cepted a Professorship at Harvard College, and
 
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 built up the greatest school of Natural History in 
 this country. Though one of the most learned, he 
 was also one of the most devout and gentle of men. 
 Prof. Alexander Agassiz lends his cordial ap- 
 proval to our Society and its work, and has very 
 kindly given us permission to use his father's name. 
 
 THE RESPONSE. 
 
 This invitation has met a response at once gratify- 
 ing and unexpected. A very general interest in the 
 study of Nature has been evinced by young and old. 
 Classes or local " Chapters " have been formed in dif- 
 ferent towns, under the direction of the central or- 
 ganization, and where this has been impracticable, 
 individuals have joined as corresponding mem- 
 bers. Within three years and a half, more than 
 seven thousand students have been aided, and 
 six hundred and fifty local Scientific Societies es- 
 tablished. Though originally planned as an aid 
 to young people, the interest of the older ones 
 has proved even greater, and we are gratified to find 
 on our roll of membership the names of many fathers 
 and mothers, teachers and professors. Several of 
 our chapters are composed wholly of adults many 
 of old and young working together. " Family Chap- 
 ters " are among our most successful branches. 
 
 SCHOOL SOCIETIES. 
 
 As the A. A. has become better known, it has 
 found a wide field of usefulness in connection with 
 schools, both private and public. Many teachers 
 who have not been able to find a place for Natural 
 Science in the ordinary school curriculum, and who 
 have yet felt that their pupils should not grow up
 
 History of the A. A. 7 
 
 strangers to the flowers, trees, birds and butterflies, 
 have been glad to devote an hour once a fortnight 
 to the guidance of a meeting devoted to these 
 studies. In almost every school may be found as 
 many as s^ix of the more intelligent boys and girls 
 who will willingly spend an evening now and then 
 in united study and discussion. The young are nat- 
 urally fond of collecting. Most school committees 
 will cheerfully grant the use of a room for the meet- 
 ings, and many will even provide suitable cases for 
 the specimens. No one need hesitate about organ- 
 izing a local branch of our Society, from fear that 
 his knowledge is too limited. We shall give full 
 directions for beginning the work, and suggest sev- 
 eral courses of study in a subsequent chapter. 
 Many difficulties will be removed by correspondence 
 with other classes that have surmounted the ob- 
 stacles and passed the dangers which lie at the en- 
 trance of this, as of all other paths. The President 
 of the A. A. is ready to render all the aid in his 
 power, by referring you to the best books in the 
 several departments, and by introducing you to one 
 or more of the Specialists that have most generously 
 volunteered their invaluable services to our Society. 
 
 SPECIAL CLASSES. 
 
 Among the pleasant features of the A. A. have 
 been our special courses of study. These have been 
 conducted by men high in their departments, and 
 have always been free. Dr. Marcus E. Jones, of 
 Salt Lake City, has taken a class through elementary 
 Botany ; Prof. G. Howard Parker has directed a six 
 months' course in Entomology ; Prof. E. L. French, 
 of Wells College, has managed a very successful
 
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 course of botanical collecting, and exchange, and 
 Dr. Chas. Everett Warren, of Boston, has undertaken 
 to conduct a "Red Cross Class" through a course 
 of practical anatomy and physiology. All these 
 gentlemen have most generously volunteered their 
 services, and we cannot but hope that others will be 
 found to imitate their example of true philanthropy. 
 
 THE PLAN OF THE ASSOCIATION. 
 
 From this brief sketch of the origin and work of 
 the A. A., the purpose of its founder may be fairly 
 inferred. The association was designed to be an 
 extended free school of Natural Science open to 
 persons of all ages and conditions. Local classes 
 or chapters were to be formed, quite independent of 
 each other, and of the President, except in so far as 
 by adopting a common name, and by a facility of 
 inter-correspondence and exchange, they might 
 render to each other mutual encouragement and 
 aid ; and by correspondence with the President, re- 
 ceive such guidance as he should be able to give 
 them. 
 
 It is mainly owing to the wide circulation and 
 powerful influence of St. Nicholas that the Associa- 
 tion has attained its present vigor and extent. The 
 editors of that Magazine have afforded quite un- 
 usual means of making the Society known to others, 
 and of communicating regularly among ourselves. 
 As it has been our constant intention to have the A. 
 A. relieved from all machinery, politics and red 
 tape, and to have it resemble in a modest way, the 
 great school of Chautauqua, we have adopted the 
 following extremely simple Constitution, which gives 
 us just enough cohesion to stimulate an esprit de
 
 History of the A. A. 9 
 
 corps, but leaves each class or chapter absolutely 
 free from any jurisdiction whatever. 
 
 CONSTITUTION (As Amended.} 
 
 Article i. The name of this Society shall be THE 
 AGASSIZ ASSOCIATION. 
 
 Art. 2. It shall be the object of this Association 
 to collect, study, and preserve natural objects and 
 facts. 
 
 Art. 3. The officer of this Association shall be a 
 President, who shall perform the customary duties 
 of such officer, and who, with the editors of St. 
 Nicholas, may appoint his own successor. 
 
 Art. 4. New Chapters may be added with the 
 consent of the President, provided that no such 
 Chapter shall consist of less than four members. 
 
 Chapters shall be named from the towns in which 
 they exist, and if there be more than one Chapter in 
 a town, they shall be further distinguished by the 
 letters of the alphabet. 
 
 Art. 5. Each Chapter may choose its own officers 
 and make its own by-laws. 
 
 Art. 6. This Constitution may be amended by a 
 three-fourths vote of the Association or its repre- 
 sentatives. 
 
 Art. 7. The St. Nicholas Magazine shall be the 
 official organ of communication between members 
 and Chapters of the Association. 
 
 Of course Art. 7 lays no restriction on the corre- 
 spondence, or other intercourse of Chapters, nor on 
 the publication of local Chapter papers. 
 
 The wisdom of this plan of organization seems to 
 be established by the rapid growth and increasing
 
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 prosperity of the Society. First proposed to the 
 public in 1880, it has now attained a membership of 
 over 7,000, and consists of about 600 Chapters. 
 
 As may be seen by reference to the list of Chap- 
 ters in another part of this book, these local societies 
 are scattered throughout nearly all of the United 
 States and Territories, Canada, England, Scotland, 
 Ireland and South America. 
 
 9 ADVANTAGES. 
 
 The advantages which may result from the forma- 
 tion of a branch in the family or school, far 
 outweigh the labor and time required. Habits of 
 observation are formed ; valuable knowledge is ac- 
 quired ; spontaneous study is secured ; health-giv- 
 ing rambles are taken ; the elements of parliamen- 
 tary law are learned and practiced ; subjects for 
 compositions are abundantly supplied ; power of 
 debate is attained ; practice in letter-writing is 
 necessitated ; valuable collections are made ; use- 
 ful libraries are founded ; pleasant acquaintances 
 are formed ; windows are opened into distant States 
 through which we catch glimpses of scenery new to 
 us ; we see various strange forms of animal and 
 plant life, and the fossil records of the past ; and 
 become acquainted with the modes of thought and 
 expression which prevail outside our own homes. 
 Correspondence with Chapters in different states 
 is like the magical glass of the Arabian prince. 
 
 Sitting by our study-table we can see in even- 
 direction sturdy boys and graceful girls, searching 
 eagerly for Nature's hidden treasures. We see them 
 scouring the prairies of Kansas, climbing the foot 
 hills of the Sierras ; discovering beautiful caves in
 
 History of the A, A. II 
 
 the Rocky Mountains ; analyzing magnolia blos- 
 soms in Mississippi ; killing rattlesnakes on their 
 own door-steps in Colorado ; studying geology in 
 England; gathering "edelweiss" from the slopes 
 of the Alps ; wandering, by permit, through New 
 York's Central Park ; spying out specimens from 
 the mica mines of Vermont ; picking up tarantulas 
 and scorpions in Texas ; searching for the flowers 
 and insects of the Argentine Republic ; gathering 
 algae and sea-shells on the coast of Florida ; grow- 
 ing wise in the paleontology of Iowa ; arranging the 
 variously colored sands of the Mississippi river in 
 curious bottles ; in Massachusetts, anxious to know 
 whether "the Limnanthcmum of our waters has 
 roots ;" sending from Chicago to learn about the 
 "center of buoyancy;" holding field-meetings in 
 Illinois ; celebrating the birthday of Professor Ag- 
 assiz (May 28), in many States with a picnic and 
 appropriate exercises ; giving entertainments and 
 realizing " enough to buy a cabinet and have thirty 
 dollars over to start a library " in Oregon ; making 
 wonderful collections in Virginia ; enjoying the 
 assistance and listening to the lectures of eminent 
 scientists in Philadelphia ; enrolling scholars and 
 teachers in Connecticut and Rhode Island ; de- 
 termining to become professors in the District of 
 Columbia ; writing fraternal messages from Canada; 
 selecting quartz crystals from the hot springs of 
 Arkansas ; discovering geastrums on Long Island, 
 and everywhere learning to detect the beautiful in 
 the common, and the wonderful in the before de- 
 spised.
 
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 CHAPTER II. 
 
 HOW TO ORGANIZE A CHAPTER AND CONDUCT A 
 MEETING. PARLIAMENTARY LAW. BY-LAWS. 
 
 We will now proceed to answer the most impor- 
 tant and constant questions that come to us from 
 day to day. Naturally the first inquiry is, " How 
 can I form a Chapter of the A. A. ?" 
 
 As four is the smallest number of members recog- 
 nized as a " Chapter," the first thing to do is to find 
 at least three persons besides yourself who are inter- 
 ested in the plan. Call a meeting and appoint a 
 temporary chairman. Explain to your friends the 
 purpose for which you have called them together, 
 and make a motion to the effect that a chapter of 
 the A. A. be organized. If this motion prevails, it 
 will be well to have a committee appointed to draft 
 your by-laws, or the rules by which your chapter 
 is to be guided. After choosing this committee you 
 may adjourn. 
 
 At the next meeting, hear and act upon the re- 
 port of your committee, and elect your permanent 
 officers. It will prove of great service to you 
 to conduct your meetings, as far as may be, 
 in accordance with parliamentary law. Your 
 by-laws should contain an article stating what 
 authority shall control you in this regard. You will 
 find " Roberts' Rules of Order " an excellent and 
 intelligible guide. If you have no book of rules, 
 the following will be found to cover the principal 
 points which may perplex you :
 
 How to Organize, &c. 13 
 
 RULES OF ORDER. 
 
 1. A quorum of members is always required for 
 the transaction of business, and in the absence of a 
 special law, a majority of the members constitutes a 
 quorum. 
 
 2. There is properly no business before the house 
 until a member has been recognized by the chair- 
 man as having offered a motion. 
 
 3. It requires a two-thirds vote to suppress a 
 question without permitting debate. 
 
 4. A motion to reconsider a question once de- 
 cided can only be made by one who has voted 
 affirmatively. 
 
 5. A rule adopted must be enforced by the chair 
 without question. 
 
 6. Motions to lay on the table, and for the previ- 
 ous question are customary methods for disposing 
 of questions and abridging debate. 
 
 7. Debate must be confined to the question, and 
 personalities are out of order. 
 
 8. Motions which are undebatable, are the previ- 
 ous question ; to lay on or take from the table ; an 
 objection to the consideration of any question ; an 
 appeal relative to indecorum or violation of rule ; 
 questions relative to the order of business, to the 
 withdrawal of a motion, to reading papers or to sus 1 
 pending the rules ; and motions to adjourn, to fix 
 the time to which to adjourn, or to postpone indefi- 
 nitely. None of these can be amended except that 
 to fix the time to which to adjourn. Precedence is 
 given to motions in the following order ; and any 
 motion, except to amend, can be made while one of 
 a lower order is pending ; but none can supersede 
 one of a higher order.
 
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 1. To fix the time to which to adjourn. 
 
 2. To adjourn. 3. A call for the order of the day. 
 4. To lay on the table. 5. The previous question. 
 
 6. To postpone to a certain time. 
 
 7. To commit, amend or postpone indefinitely. 
 
 BY-LAWS. 
 
 Very much of the comfort and harmony of your 
 meetings will depend upon the wisdom of your by- 
 laws. They should be simple, short and compre- 
 hensive, and should cover such points as what 
 officers you will have, how long they shall hold 
 office, what initiation fee you will require, how 
 many members you will admit, what fines you will 
 impose for absence, what duties shall devolve upon 
 your officers and members, and what order of exer- 
 cises you will follow in your meetings. The fol- 
 lowing schedule may prove serviceable as a sug- 
 gestion : 
 
 1. The name of this society shall be, etc. 
 
 2. The officers shall be . 
 
 3. The entrance fee shall be . 
 
 4. The regular dues shall be . 
 
 5. The order of exercises at our regular meetings 
 shall be : a. Roll-call ; b. Minutes of last meeting ; 
 c. Treasurer's report ; d. Report of corresponding 
 secretary ; e. Reports of members on specimens, 
 etc.; f. Miscellaneous business; g. Adjournment. 
 
 6. New members may be elected at any regular 
 meeting of the society, by ballot, and adverse 
 votes shall exclude. 
 
 7. The meetings of this society shall be con- 
 ducted in accordance with , etc.
 
 How to Organize, &c. 75- 
 
 The second article should contain a clause lim- 
 iting the time during 'which the various offices shall 
 be held ; but considering the fact that the addresses, 
 of your President and Secretary are to be published 
 in St. Nicholas and in the Hand Book, for the ben- 
 efit of other chapters, those officers should be elected 
 once for all, if possible. In any case you should 
 take a P. O. Box, which may remain as the perma- 
 nent address of your chapter through whatever of- 
 ficial changes may occur. 
 
 In societies where members are of nearly the 
 same age, the decision of the majority should be 
 regarded as absolute, and be cheerfully agreed to 
 by the minority. In family chapters, and those 
 under the direction of a teacher, it is well to have a 
 by-law giving the President the power of veto, and 
 making a three-fourths vote necessary to pass a mo- 
 tion over his veto. Such branches may, if they 
 choose, constitute simple classes, and remain en- 
 tirely subject to the control of parent or teacher. 
 The Constitution leaves each branch entirely free in 
 these matters. 
 
 The first duty of your secretary, after having re- 
 corded the minutes of your meeting for organiza- 
 tion, will be to send to the President of the Associa- 
 tion an account of the formation of the chapter, 
 containing the name, age, and special department 
 of each member. Once in two months there- 
 after, a report of your progress, will be expected. 
 The nature of this repprt can best be learned by a 
 study of those presented hereafter in this book. 
 Should you, from any cause, disband, immediate 
 notice should be sent to the President, so that other 
 chapters may not address you in vain.
 
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 INDIVIDUAL MEMBERS. 
 
 It frequently happens that an individual wishes 
 to join the A. A., but is not able to interest enough 
 companions to form a chapter. To provide for such 
 persons, we allow them to become corresponding 
 members of the Central Association, at Lenox, on 
 payment of an entrance fee of 50 cents. No subse- 
 quent dues are required, and for Chapters there is no 
 expense, whatever, except the purchase of this book. 
 
 Those who join us as corresponding members, 
 are expected to work in their chosen departments, 
 and to send to the President, once a month, a con- 
 cise report of their progress, modeled somewhat 
 after the letters given later in the Hand-book. 
 They enjoy all the privileges of charter members, 
 except voting, and are at liberty to correspond and 
 exchange with members of the regular chapters.
 
 Plan of Work. 
 
 CHAPTER III. 
 
 A PLAN OF WORK. 
 
 The Presidents of those chapters that desire to 
 study the scientific classification of the objects of 
 Nature will do well to follow some such method as 
 this : Consider, first, the three great kingdoms 
 Animal, Vegetable and Mineral. Let one meeting 
 be devoted to the study of each as a kingdom. Let 
 all the objects in your collection be classified so far 
 as to determine regarding each, whether it belongs 
 to the first, second or third of these kingdoms. De- 
 termine the same regarding a multitude of sub- 
 stances as air, water, milk, sugar, amber, alcohol, 
 ink, paper, steel, paint, silk, flannel, steam, smoke, 
 coal, kerosene, vinegar, etc. 
 
 Next take up the branches into which the several 
 kingdoms are subdivided. These are for Animals : 
 
 I. Protozoa. V. Arthropoda. 
 
 II. Ccelenterata. VI. Molluscoidea. 
 
 III. Echinodermata. VII. Mollusca. 
 
 IV. Vermes. VIII. Tunicata. 
 
 IX. Vertebrata. 
 
 Let these be carefully studied one by one, and 
 thoroughly discussed, and illustrated by specimens, 
 until any animal can readily be referred to its proper 
 branch. If the books which contain this later class- 
 ification are not at your command, you will do very 
 well with the older divisions after Cuvier, viz.: 
 I. Vertebrates. III. Mollusks. 
 
 II. Articulates. IV, Radiates. 
 
 V. Protozoans.
 
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 These you will find in ordinary text-books, and 1 
 may mention as peculiarly adapted to young people, 
 Tenney's Zoology, published by Scribner, Armstrong 
 & Co. 
 
 The divisions of the Vegetable kingdom are 
 given in Bessey's Botany, which is one of the best 
 and latest authorities on this subject ; and in Gray's 
 various botanical works the best of which for the 
 general student, is his " Lessons and Manual," or 
 for younger ones, "School and Field Botany." 
 These divisions and their further subdivisions should 
 be studied, as in the case of animals, carefully and 
 patiently. The Mineral kingdom is divided into 
 Metallic and Non-metallic substances, and these 
 again comprise objects which exhibit different de- 
 grees of hardness, fusibility, specific gravity, etc., 
 regard being had also to their chemical compo- 
 sition and their peculiar forms of crystallization. 
 This is the most difficult kingdom for an unaided 
 student. Dana's " Mineralogy " is a good popular 
 guide, and Brush's " Determinative Mineralogy and 
 Blow-pipe Analysis" is an excellent manual for 
 more advanced students, while beginners cannot 
 do better than get some of the science primers 
 printed by Ginn & Heath, and mentioned later in 
 this book. 
 
 One object of this division and subdivision in the 
 several kingdoms is so to classify all natural ob- 
 jects that we may determine the precise name 
 of any specimen we may find. The more minute 
 the subdivision, the more difficult often becomes the 
 analysis. Thus, it is usually an easy matter to dis- 
 tinguish between an animal and a vegetable. It is 
 not difficult to determine whether we are examining
 
 A Plan of Work. ip 
 
 an insect or a worm. If we find an insect, we may 
 presently refer it to the Lepidoptcra, and then to the 
 butterflies ; but when it comes to distinguishing be- 
 tween the various vanessas, with their curious punct- 
 uation marks, the matter grows more serious, and 
 we are compelled to obtain a book more restricted 
 in scope than a zoology, and, indeed, than most 
 entomologies. 
 
 As a result of this, it becomes necessary for him 
 that would accurately study any department of 
 Nature to limit himself early to a small field. One 
 will choose, for instance, Dragon-flies, and by de- 
 voting years to them will become a specialist and an 
 authority in that department. It is the tendency of 
 the times to produce specialists. 
 
 Many persons, however, are not willing to restrict 
 themselves to so narrow r a field of study. They 
 prefer to range freely over mountain and along 
 stream, and having acquired the power to analyze a 
 flower or determine a mineral, they leave the one to 
 nod and smile on its dewy stem in undissected 
 beauty, and the other to sparkle in the sunlight, in- 
 stead of crackling in the reducing flame of a com- 
 pound blow-pipe. Yet we must have strict scien- 
 tists, and we honor the men who, for the sake of 
 expanding the world's knowledge, are willing to 
 confine their own researches to a narrow field. 
 
 For those, then, who are old enough to pursue a 
 systematic course, we have briefly outlined a plan 
 which may be followed in any department of Nat- 
 ural Science. It consists in first obtaining a general 
 view of the whole field, and then in learning its suc- 
 cessive subdivisions, until analysis is complete. 
 
 The rest of you, and especially you, my little folk
 
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 of ten years old and under, may, for the present, 
 leave the big books unopened, and the Latin names 
 unlearned. Watch the minnows dart about in the 
 crystal water ; count the daisy flowers, and may 
 they prove oracles of joy ; blow off the dandelion's 
 plumes to see if mother wants you ; test your love 
 for butter by the glimmer of the buttercup beneath- 
 your chins ; find pretty pebbles by the brook and 
 keep them bright in glasses of water ; gather brilliant 
 autumn leaves and press them for the days when 
 their colors will be in the sky ; study the beautiful 
 crystals of the snow lightly falling on your sleeve 
 as you plod to school; learn to love the music of the 
 rain, and the singing of the wind, and the moaning 
 of the sea. 
 
 You may not discover many wonderful things 
 or things that you will recognize as w r onderful. But 
 St. Nicholas is a far traveler. If the boys and girls 
 in all the different places, gladdened by his visits, 
 were to tell each other about the common things in 
 each one's own vicinity, there would be wonder 
 enough, I am sure. 
 
 Yet you may find something altogether new. Did 
 not little Maggie Edward find a new fish for her 
 father? What? Never heard of Thomas Edward 
 the dear old shoe-maker who used to make 
 "uppers" all day, and then lie all night in a hole in 
 a sand-bank, with his head and gun out, w r atching 
 for "beasts?" In that case, you would do well to 
 read the book called "The Scotch Naturalist," by 
 Samuel Smiles. 
 
 Nature must be studied out-of-doors. Naturajl 
 objects must be studied from the specimens them- 
 selves. The rocks must be broken open, the flowers
 
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 must be studied as they grow, and animals must be 
 watched as they live freely in their own strange 
 homes. Listen to quaint old Bernardin de St. 
 Pierre, author of " Paul and Virginia :" 
 
 " Botanists mislead us. They must have magni- 
 fying glasses and scales in order to class the trees 
 of a forest ! To show me the character of a flower, 
 it is presented to me dry, discolored and spread out 
 on the leaf of an herbary. Who can discover the 
 queen of the flowers in a dried rose ? In order to 
 its being an object at once of love and philosophy, 
 it must be viewed when, issuing from the cleft of a 
 humid rock, it shines on its native verdure, when 
 the zephyr sways it, on a stem armed with thorns." 
 
 Nothing can take the place of personal contact 
 with Nature. No great naturalist has learned his 
 lessons from books. 
 
 Agassiz had learned more about fishes before he 
 ever saw a fish-book, than he found in the book af- 
 ter he got it. 
 
 Audubon lived in the woods and learned the voi- 
 ces of all the birds, and could tell them also by 
 their flight. 
 
 Gilbert White wrote charming letters about the 
 swallows under his eaves, the cricket on his hearth, 
 and the old tortoise that lived in his kitchen-garden. 
 
 W. W. Bailey braves the frosts of winter, and ram- 
 bles by the icy brooks, or through the snow-carpeted 
 aisles of the naked forest, to see what Nature does 
 when summer is ended. Hear him : 
 
 " The pretty little stream is bordered by a fringe 
 of white ice, under which we can see great bubbles 
 press, squeezing themselves into very curious forms. 
 The stream murmurs some pleasant story of the
 
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 summer violets. On its still pools float leaf-gondo- 
 las of curious patterns. Great fern-feathers, un- 
 withered by the frost, droop over the brook, and 
 velvety mosses cushion the shores." 
 
 These men understand Nature. They enter into 
 the spirit of her mighty, throbbing life, and inter- 
 pret the secrets of her wondrous love. 
 
 And if you have ever known what it is to feel a 
 great love for the very earth, so that on some sunny 
 day you have wandered off alone, and under the 
 fragrant shade of an ancient pine, have thrown your- 
 self upon her broad bosom, like a tired child; or if, 
 when the wind was bending the long grass, you have 
 lain among the daisies, like Robert Falconer, watch- 
 ing your kite floating far up in the blue sky, and 
 wondering what there is beyond the kite, and be- 
 yond the sky; or if, on some dark day in December, 
 when the gray clouds were skurrying across the sky, 
 you have climbed a hill alone, and from a swaying 
 perch in a leafless beech watched the drifting snow 
 as it wrapped the world in ermine, then you may 
 believe that a portion of the spirit that animated 
 Agassiz, and Edward, and Audubon, and White, and 
 Wordsworth, has fallen upon you.
 
 How to Make a Cabinet. 
 
 CHAPTER IV. 
 
 HOW TO MAKE A CABINET. 
 
 In " Rollo's Museum," a charming little book by 
 Jacob Abbot, we read that Jonas made an excellent 
 cabinet for Rollo, from a large packing-box. He 
 stood it on end, fitted it with shelves, and closed it 
 by doors attached by means of leather hinges, and 
 fastened by a wooden button. Such a cabinet neatly 
 finished, looks very well, and costs almost nothing. 
 To those who would like to try their hands at some- 
 thing a little more elegant, we offer the following 
 simple design: 
 
 The picture 
 shows the cabinet 
 j complete, and the 
 plan following it is 
 ] drawn so that ev- 
 I ery measurement 
 I in it is one - six- 
 
 Jteenth of the cor- 
 I responding meas- 
 urement in the 
 finished cabinet. 
 No nails are used. 
 Wood of light 
 color looks well ; chestnut is easily worked. The 
 ends of the top and bottom are mortised into the 
 sides. Close to the side boards, holes are bored 
 through the projecting parts of the tenons ; and 
 wedges are inserted and hammered tight.
 
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 The frames of the doors are doweled at the cor- 
 ners, each joint being made by boring a hole through 
 one piece into the next, and inserting a dowel coated 
 with glue. The short dotted lines in the plan help 
 to explain this. The glass should not be set with 
 putty, but with narrow strips, beading, or rattan, 
 fastened with brads or " needle points." Butt-hinges 
 may be used, with ornamental hinge-plates set out- 
 side, as shown. Hook one door to the shelf, and it 
 will hold the other door shut. 
 
 The shelves may 
 be made with raised 
 * edges, like trays, 
 the front rims are 
 not shown in the pic- 
 ture. These edges 
 will keep the contents 
 from rolling off when 
 the trays are taken 
 out. The shelves 
 
 Q 
 
 slope forward to 
 show the specimens 
 to better advantage: 
 and they rest on dowels let into auger-holes in the 
 side boards. To prevent them from slipping, pegs 
 are set in them underneath, resting against the 
 backs of the forward dowels. The shelves may be 
 put in flat, and may rest on screw eyes screwed into 
 the sides of the cabinet, 
 
 Metal ears are set on the back, projecting above 
 the top, for hanging the cabinet; in addition, it is 
 well to drive a screw from the inside through the . 
 the back into a stud in the wall. 
 
 The scalloping at the top of the back may be done
 
 How to Make a Chapter. 25 
 
 with a fret-saw. The hole in the center of each scal- 
 lop is bored right through. The ornamental lines 
 across the sides are made with a gouge, and should 
 be covered with two' coats of white shellac varnish. 
 Those skilled in fret-sawing may like to set in the 
 top the letters Jju ^. r in Old English text. If you 
 are puzzled over any of the details, the nearest cab- 
 inet maker will give you a friendly hint. 
 
 Many chapters wishing something still more elab- 
 orate, have given various sorts of entertainments, 
 and earned money to buy them, and in many cases 
 the school authorities have generously furnished our 
 young friends with cabinets, and rendered them 
 other substantial aid. 
 
 One of the most desirable kinds of cabinet, is 
 made like a shallow show-case, and the top is covered 
 with a glass door which may be lifted up. In a case 
 for insects, this top may be tightly fastened down by 
 means of thumbscrews, and may be rendered air- 
 tight by the interposition of a strip of rubber.
 
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 CHAPTER V. 
 
 \Eyihe courtesy of Prof. Gry. ami tin: Pniji 
 <>f these hints on collecting plants, an tah/t fro 
 Lessons in Botany : Icixon. Blakema.n. T<!t/?o/' <! 
 
 HOW TO COLLECT SPECIMENS AND MAKE AX 
 HERBARIUM. 
 
 For collecting specimens the needful things 
 are a large kncfe, strong enough to be used for dig- 
 ging up bulbs, small rootstocks, and the like, as well 
 as for cutting woody branches; and a botanical 
 box, or ^portfolio, for holding specimens which are 
 to be carried to any distance. 
 
 It is well to have both. The botanical box is 
 most useful for holding specimens which are to be 
 examined fresh. It is made of tin, in shape like a 
 candle-box, only flatter, or the smaller sizes like an 
 English sandwich-case; the lid opening for nearly 
 the whole length of one side of the box. Any port- 
 able tin box of convenient 
 k size, and capable of holding 
 1 specimens a foot or fifteen 
 [inches long, will answer the 
 f purpose. The box should 
 shut close, so that the speci- 
 mens may not wilt: then it will keep leafy branches 
 and most flowers perfectly fresh for a day or two, 
 especially if slightly moistened. 
 
 The portfolio should be a pretty strong one, from 
 a foot to twenty inches long, and from nine to 
 eleven inches wide, and fastening with tape, or
 
 How to t Collect Specimens, arc. 27 
 
 (which is better) by a leathern strap and buckle at 
 the side. It should contain a quantity of sheets of 
 thin and smooth, unsized paper; the poorest print- 
 ing-paper and grocers' tea-paper are very good for 
 the purpose. The specimens as soon as gathered 
 are to be separately laid in a folded sheet, and kept 
 under moderate pressure in the closed portfolio. 
 
 Botanical specimens should be either in flower 
 or in fruit. In the case of herbs, the same spec- 
 imen will often exhibit the two; and both should 
 by all means be secured whenever it is possible. Of 
 small herbs, especially annuals, the whole plant, root 
 and all, should be taken for a specimen. Of larger 
 ones branches will suffice, with some of the leaves 
 from near the root. Euough of the root or subter- 
 ranean part of the plant should be collected to show 
 whether the plant is an annual, biennial or peren- 
 nial. Thick roots, bulbs, tubers, or branches of 
 specimens intended to be preserved, should be 
 thinned with a knife, or cut into slices lengthwise. 
 
 For drying specimens a good supply of soft 
 and unsized paper the more bibulous the better 
 is wanted; and some convenient means of applying 
 pressure. All that is requisite to make good dried 
 botanical specimens is, to dry them as rapidly as 
 possible between many thicknesses of paper to ab- 
 sorb their moisture, under as much pressure as can 
 be given without crushing the more delicate parts. 
 This pressure may be given by a botanical press, 
 of which various forms have been contrived; or by 
 weights placed upon a board, from forty to eighty 
 or a hundred pounds, according to the quantity of 
 specimens drying at the time. For use while trav- 
 eling, a good portable press may be made of thick
 
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 binders' boards for the sides, holding the drying pa- 
 per, and the pressure may be applied by a cord, or, 
 much better, by strong straps with buckles. 
 
 For drying paper, the softer and smoother 
 sorts of che'ap wrapping-paper answer very well. 
 This paper may be made up into driers, each of a 
 dozen sheets or less, according to the thickness, 
 lightly stitched together. Specimens to be dried 
 should be put into the press as soon as possible after 
 gathering. If collected in a portfolio, the more del- 
 icate plants should not be disturbed, but the sheets 
 that hold them should one by one be transferred 
 from the portfolio to the press. Specimens brought 
 home in the botanical box must be laid in a folded 
 -sheet of the same thin, smooth, and soft paper used 
 in the portfolio; and these sheets are to hold the 
 plants until they are dry. They are to be at once 
 laid in between the driers, and the whole put under 
 pressure. Every day (or at first even twice a day 
 would be well), the specimens, left undisturbed in 
 their sheets, are to be shifted into well-dried fresh 
 driers, and the pressure renewed, while the moist 
 sheets are spread out to dry, that they may take 
 their turn again at the next shifting. This course 
 must be continued until the specimens are no longer 
 moist to the touch, which for most plants requires 
 about a week; then they may be transferred to the 
 sheets of paper in which they are to be preserved. 
 If a great abundance of drying paper is to be used, 
 it is not necessary to change the sheets even* day, 
 after the first day or two. 
 
 Herbarium. The botanist's collection of dried 
 specimens, ticketed with their names, place, and 
 time of collection, and systematically arranged
 
 How to Collect Specimens, &c. 2p> 
 
 under their genera, orders, &c., forms a Hortus 
 Siccus or Herbarium. It comprises not only the 
 specimens which the proprietor has himself collected, 
 but those which he acquires through friendly ex- 
 changes with distant botanists, or in other ways. 
 The specimens of an herbarium may be kept in 
 folded sheets of neat, and rather thick, white paper; 
 or they may be fastened on half sheets of such pa- 
 per, either by slips of gummed paper, or by glue 
 applied to the specimens themselves. Each sheet 
 should be appropriated to one species; two or more 
 different plants should never be attached to the same 
 sheet. The generic and specific name of the plant 
 should be added to the lower right-hand corner, ei- 
 ther written on the sheet, or on a ticket pasted 
 down at that corner; and the time of collection, the 
 locality, the color of the flowers, and any other in- 
 formation which the specimens themselves do not 
 afford, should be duly recorded upon the sheet or 
 the ticket. The sheets of the herbarium should all 
 be of exactly the same dimensions. The herbarium 
 of Linnaeus is on paper of the common foolscap 
 size, about eleven inches long and seven wide. But 
 this is too small for an herbarium of any magnitude. 
 Sixteen and a half inches by ten and a half, or elev- 
 en and a half inches, is an approved size. 
 
 The sheets containing the species of each genus 
 are to be placed in genus-covers, made of a full 
 sheet of thick, colored paper (such as the strong- 
 est Manilla-hemp paper), which fold to the same 
 dimensions as the species-sheet; and the name of 
 the genus is to be written on one of the lower cor- 
 ners. These are to be arranged under, the orders 
 to which they belong, and the whole kept in closed
 
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 cases or cabinets, either laid flat in compartments, 
 like large " pigeon-holes," or else placed in thick 
 portfolios, arranged like folio volumes, and having 
 the names of the orders lettered on the back. 
 
 It may not be out of place, in connection with 
 rules for preserving plants, to give the following- 
 method of preparing specimens of wood for the 
 cabinet: Cut boards five by eight inches and a quar- 
 ter of an inch thick. Season, and plane smooth. 
 Varnish one-half. Then cut from a sapling, two or 
 three inches in diameter, some pieces one-quarter 
 of an inch thick. Saw these in a square miter-box. 
 
 SPECIMEN OF WOOD. 
 
 Saw off several, as some may warp or split. In 
 summer, the pieces will season without a fire. In 
 winter, a fire is needed, but the wood should not be 
 put too near it. When the end sections are season- 
 ed, smooth one side carefully with a rasp, so as not 
 to mar the bark. Finish with fine sand-paper. 
 Polish, oil, or varnish, being careful not to varnish 
 the bark. When dry, fasten with small screws, from 
 the back, to the center of the boards previously de- 
 scribed.
 
 How to Collect and Preserve Sea-iveeiL 31 
 CHAPTER VI. 
 
 HOW TO COLLECT AND PRESERVE SEA-WEED. 
 
 Louisa Lane Clarke, in "Common Sea-weeds" 
 gives the following suggestions, which are evidently 
 the fruit of experience. Even in these minor de- 
 tails she reveals her true love of nature. "We 
 dabble in the cool, clear tide-pools, and scarcely 
 know what we take up; there is a world of life in 
 each. The speckled prawn is balancing himself, 
 and waving to and fro his sensitive feelers, springing 
 away under the rich foliage that conceals his hiding- 
 place; and the small Blenny darts like a lightning- 
 flash from cranny to crevice, the fear and the dread 
 of man upon it. On the green Ulva creeps the 
 lovely little slug a bright green spotted with white 
 called Acteon viridis, and on darker sea-weeds the 
 great purplish Sea-hare. Sea-spiders lurk amid the 
 coralline; and as we gather a bunch of sea- weed, 
 we shake out dozens of a pretty little snail called 
 Rissoa, besides gathering, if we please, bright yel- 
 low Nerits, the commonest sea-snail of our coast. 
 All these force themselves on the notice of the sea- 
 weed gatherer, as we scramble over the rocks, and 
 pause to consicler where we shall begin. 
 
 I advise taking a little of everything not much, 
 for they so soon spoil in waiting to be mounted 
 and naming each specimen as it is decided by 
 reference to your manual. If you have time to 
 spare, be content to press and arrange the weeds 
 mentioned as belonging to the first tide-pools. If
 
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 you have but a day for a sea-side holiday, go down 
 to the lowest ebb of the tide, in hopes of the best 
 red sea-weeds, and work back to the commoner, but 
 still beautiful, green sea-weeds, Viva and Cladophorcz. 
 
 Suppose now, that we have made our search, and 
 have brought home a tangled mass of olive, red and 
 green sea-weeds. 
 
 We get some soup-plates, fresh water, a bit of 
 alum, some camel-hair pencils, and / use needles, 
 mounted on lucifer matches, to assist in disentang- 
 ling the mass. 
 
 Of course we are prepared with paper cut into 
 large and small squares; and as much of the beauty 
 of the specimens depends on the quality of the pa- 
 per, it should be fine, and at the same time stout, 
 almost as good as drawing paper. 
 
 Now float a piece of weed in fresh water; if very 
 dirty or sandy, wash it first, and in renewed water 
 float it on a piece of paper supported by your left 
 hand, whilst with your right hand you arrange the 
 plant in a natural manner, using a mounted needle 
 or porcupine-quill, and thinning out the supera- 
 bundant branches with a fine pointed pair of scis- 
 sors. When the specimen is placed as you like it, 
 cautiously raise the paper that the position of the 
 plant be not altered, and let it rest somewhere with 
 sloping inclination, that the moisture may run off 
 whilst other specimens are treated in the same way. 
 
 Do not leave them long thus, for they must be 
 pressed before the paper is dry. 
 
 A convenient traveling press consists of two pieces 
 of deal board about two feet long and one foot wide, . 
 a couple of quires of whity-brown paper, and a 
 double strap. Lay blotting paper between the coar-
 
 How to Collect and Preserve Sea-weed. jj 
 
 ser paper, and you can strap them closely, and carry 
 your sea-weed very safely in your hand. 
 
 In drying them, you must have old linen or fine 
 muslin, old and soft, to lay upon the weed and pre- 
 vent its sticking to the upper paper; but do not leave 
 it beyond a day or so, lest it leave chequered marks 
 upon the surface of the weed, especially those with 
 broad fronds, like Delesseria. 
 
 Experience will give the best lessons. Some sea- 
 weeds, such as Melogloia, which are glutinous, must 
 not be pressed at all, but laid out to dry, and when 
 perfectly so, then moisten the under side of the pa- 
 per, and give a gentle pressure only. 
 
 Others will not adhere to paper, and therefore, 
 when dry, brush them over with a little isinglass dis- 
 solved in gin (laid on warm,) and they will then be 
 fixed closely to the cardboard or paper. 
 
 Another preparation is: one ounce oil of turpen- 
 tine, in which some gum mastic the size of a nut- 
 meg has been dissolved. This gives a gloss to the 
 specimen, and helps to preserve the color. 
 
 You must change the blotting paper and muslin 
 at least twice during the process of drying larger 
 sea- weeds; the smaller ones will be ready in a couple 
 of days for the album, on the second day giving 
 heavy pressure by stones and weights besides the 
 strap.
 
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 CHAPTER VII. 
 
 HOW TO COLLECT, STUDY AND PRESERVE INSECTS. 
 
 Of the seven thousand members of the Agassiz 
 Association, more have expressed a preference for f 
 the study of entomology than for almost any other 
 branch. Curiously enough, the girls seem to be 
 quite as fond of insects as the boys are. It is not 
 difficult to account for this preference. The many- 
 hued wings of butterflies flashing in the sun, the 
 metallic gleam of beetles, the feathery grace and 
 rich coloring of moths, the dreamy pinions of drag- 
 on-flies, the excitement of the chase, and above all, 
 the mysterious and symbolic changes which attend 
 insect-life, shed a bright fascination about insect- 
 study. 
 
 Attracted by this light our boys and girls are flut- 
 tering about the homes of bugs and beetles very 
 much in the same manner that bugs and beetles 
 flutter about the lights in our human habitations. 
 Let me, then, hasten to answer the three questions 
 which are puzzling so many of our correspondents: 
 How catch ? how kill ? how keep ? By far the best 
 way to catch a butterfly is to find a caterpillar; keep 
 him in a glass box; feed him with leaves of the 
 plant on which you found him; and watch him day 
 by day, as he changes his various garments, " spins 
 himself up" till he bursts or perforates his cere- 
 ments and unrolls his wings, with every painted 
 shingle in its place, his " feathers" quite unruffled 
 on his head and his six legs under him in unmuti--
 
 How to Collect, Study, &c. 35 
 
 lated entireness. Full directions for raising insects, 
 making glass cases, etc., are contained in a little 
 book called " Insect Lives," published at a dollar by 
 Robert Clarke, Cincinnati, Ohio. 
 
 In addition to this method of capture, you will 
 need a light gauze net. Any boy can make one of 
 these in half an hour. Get three-fourths of a yard 
 of silk veiling; ask Mother to make a bag of it, 
 with a hem around the top wide enough to run a 
 pipe-stem through; pass a thick wire through this 
 and bend it into the shape required; fasten the 
 ends of this wire to a light stick, five or six feet 
 long, and your net is made. A piece of a bamboo 
 fishing rod makes a good handle. You may also 
 need a stouter net for beating about in the bushes. 
 
 A third method of capturing moths is that of 
 painting trees with a mixture of rum, beer and su- 
 gar. This is done in the early evening, and later, 
 lantern in hand, you go about from tree to tree and 
 tap into your net the insects stupefied by the sweet 
 but fatal sirup. 
 
 A very successful lure may be formed by enclos- 
 ing a female moth, alive, in a box covered with 
 gauze. Frequently a large number of moths may 
 be taken in a single evening as they hover about the 
 imprisoned insect. 
 
 For the capture and conveyance of beetles, etc., 
 a good supply of pill-boxes and vials of various si- 
 zes may be .carried in the pockets. Small forceps 
 are convenient for picking up spiders, which, how- 
 ever, are not now classed with true insects. 
 
 These smaller insects maybe dropped at once into 
 a bottle of alcohol, and cared for on reaching home. 
 
 Butterflies are easily killed by a sudden and strong
 
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 compression of the thorax. They are best carried 
 home by folding the wings back and enclosing them 
 in little three-cornered envelopes, not glued, but 
 merely folded over them. 
 
 A vial of chloroform with a camel's hair brush 
 attached to the inside of its rubber cork, is conven- 
 ient. A drop on the head of an insect will render 
 it insensible, and it may be pinned into your collect- 
 ing box. But the best plan for killing large insects 
 is the Cyanide jar. 
 
 Take a wide-mouthed candy jar; get your drug- 
 gist to lay four or five pieces of cyanide of potas- 
 sium, as large as walnuts, in it, and cover them with 
 a layer of sawdust. Over this fit a piece of writing 
 paper. Then pour over all half an inch of liquid 
 plaster of Paris. This will quickly harden, forming 
 a smooth floor, on which any insect when dropped, 
 will quickly and quietly pass away. 
 
 The jar must be labeled poison, and must be 
 kept closed with an air-tight cover. 
 
 A collecting case can be made of any light, shal- 
 low box, by lining it with cork, and affixing straps 
 by which it may be slung around the neck. Com- 
 partments may be made in it, for the cyanide and 
 chloroform bottles, for forceps, insect pins, envel- 
 opes, etc. Having got your insects home, they must 
 be carefully mounted. You should have several 
 'setting-boards.' These are simply thin boards, 
 grooved at intervals so as to admit the bodies of 
 different sized moths and butterflies, in such a way 
 that their wings may be flat on the board. Strips 
 of cork may be glued along the bottom of the 
 grooves to receive the pins. 
 
 Pin your specimens in a groove of proper depth, "
 
 How to Collect, Study, &c. 37 
 
 and spread his wings carefully with your forceps or 
 needles set in wooden handles. 
 
 Fasten them by laying strips of glass over them, 
 or by pinning strips of paper across them. They 
 should be allowed to dry for a week or two accord- 
 ing to size. The bodies of large lepidopera should 
 be brushed with a solution of corrosive sublimate, 
 one-half drachm; arsenic, four grains; alcohol, one- 
 halt pint. This is of course very poisonous, and 
 you should get some older friend to prepare and apply 
 it for you. 
 
 Your insects may now be pinned into cedar cases, 
 made air-tight, and guarded by lumps of camphor 
 gum. In addition to these precautions, all speci- 
 mens should be subjected to a rigid quarantine of a 
 month before being transferred to the collection. 
 Even then, the cases must be carefully examined 
 every month, and any indications of danger must 
 be regarded. If such appear, pour a few drops of 
 chloroform into the case, and close the cover. This 
 will drive the destructive creatures into sight from 
 crack and cranny. Kill them, preserving one or two 
 for specimens, and renew your previous precautions. 
 A simpler and as effectual a method is to give your 
 mounted insects, cases and all, a thorough baking 
 in the oven, but this also requires great care, as the 
 heat will spoil some kinds. 
 
 Mr. E. S. Morse gives probably the best device 
 for arranging an insect box for the cabinet. It con- 
 sists of a light wooden frame like a slate frame, with 
 paper stretched upon the upper and lower surfaces. 
 Dampen the paper and glue it to the frame, and 
 when the paper dries, it will contract and become as 
 tight as a drum head. Inside the box upon two 
 
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 sides fasten cleats and let their top edges be about 
 a quarter of an inch above the bottom. Rest the 
 paper-covered frame upon these cleats. The bot- 
 tom of the box should be covered with soft pine to 
 receive the points of the pins. The space under the 
 frame should be dusted with snuff and camphor to 
 keep out insects. 
 
 But, after having tried many methods, I have ' 
 been best pleased with the appearance of insects that 
 I have set up on separate, papered blocks of wood. 
 such as are used for minerals. Indeed I know of 
 no way of showing any of the smaller specimens, 
 such as shells, bird's eggs, insects, fossils, &c., to so 
 good advantage as to set each by itself on a white 
 block of suitable size. For young entomologists, I 
 know of no better book, on the whole, than " Harris 
 on Insects injurious to Vegetation." 
 
 I will add for the benefit of our young entomolo- 
 gists a few hints on methods of observation fur- 
 nished by Prof. G. Howard Parker of Cambridge, 
 and Prof. Asa Packard, Jr., of Providence. Every 
 naturalist should have a pocket note-book always 
 with him, and make careful entries of such points 
 as are here indicated. Suppose, for example, you 
 take first, butterflies and moths. It would be an ex- 
 cellent plan to prepare a paper, in which you might: 
 
 1. Give a brief but clear description of the order. (Le- 
 pidoptera. 
 
 2. Give a careful report of your own observations on 
 any one species of the order. In this report should be in- 
 cluded : 
 
 A. Description of the insect, accurate as may be. and, if 
 possible, accompanied b}^ drawings, however rude. 
 
 [This description should be made as follows:
 
 How to Collect, Study, &c. jp 
 
 a. If a moth or butterfly, note: 1st. The form of the 
 (iiiteiituv, whether pectinated or simply hairy or spindle- 
 shaped. 2d. The form and size of palpi and length of 
 tongue. 3d. Wings: 1st pair, form, shape of costal, apex, 
 outer edge veins. 2d pair same. 4th. Markings on wings, 
 oth. Feet, spurs. 
 
 b. If a caterpillar, note: 1st. Form of head, wider or 
 narrower than segment next. 3d. Dorsal, subdorsal, and 
 lateral stripes. 3d. Position of tubercles, warts, or spines, 
 and spots. 4th. Spiraculai line. 5th. Supra-anal plate; 
 its form and markings. 6th. Number of abdominal legs 
 and form of last pair. 
 
 c. Difference in coloration of the sexes; varieties ob- 
 served; probable cause of such variation, such as differences 
 of food, location, and time of year.] 
 
 B. Habits. Date of appearance and disappearance of the 
 perfect insect : number of annual broods ; localities most 
 favorable, etc. 
 
 C. Transformations. 1. The egg: description, sketch, 
 duration of this stage; where and how deposited by the fe- 
 male. 2. Larva: number of molts, and changes noticed 
 in these molts; duration of each molt, and entire time con- 
 sumed in this stage; food-plants of the larva; drawings. 
 3. Chrysalis: description; methods of protection and fas- 
 tening; duration of this stage; special observations. 4. Par- 
 asites observed during these stages (ichneumons, chalcids, 
 etc.) 
 
 d. Concluding remarks, with notes drawn from various 
 works on the subject, and a list of such references. 
 
 Having thus worked up a few species of Lepi- 
 doptera, you might, to advantage, take up succes- 
 sively the other orders, Hymenoptera, Coleoptera, 
 Xeuroptera, etc., treating them in the same way, 
 and concluding the course by a careful study of 
 " Insects as a Class." Then you can return to your 
 favorite order or family, and carry on your special
 
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 researches and observations, minutely and intelli- 
 gently. 
 
 We add the following Department directions for 
 sending insects by mail : 
 
 "All inquiries about insects, injurious or otherwise, 
 should he accompanied by specimens, the more the better. 
 Such specimens, if dead" should be packed in some soft, 
 material, as cotton or wool, and inclosed in some stout tin 
 or wooden box. They will come by mail for one cent per 
 ounce. ///.NV/.V should never be inclosed loose in the letter. 
 Whenever possible, larvse (i. e. grubs, caterpillars, maggots, 
 etc.) should be packed alive in some tight tin box, the 
 tighter the better, as air-holes are not needed, along with 
 a supply of their appropriate food sufficient to last them on 
 their journey : otherwise, they generally die on the road and 
 shrivel up. " Send as full an account as possible of the hab- 
 its of the insect respecting which } T OU desire information; 
 for example, what plant or plants it infests: whether it de- 
 stroys the leaves, the buds, the twigs, or the stem: how 
 long it has been known to you; what amount of damage it 
 has done, etc. Such particulars are often not only of nigh 
 scientific interest, but of great practical importance. In 
 sending soft insects or larvae that have been killed in alco- 
 hol, they should be packed in cotton saturated with alcohol. 
 In sending pinned or mounted insects, always pin them 
 securely in a box to be inclosed in a larger box. the space 
 between the two boxes to be packed with some soft or elas- 
 tic material, to prevent too violent jarriuir. P<ick<i<ji'* 
 xlioulil / nmrki-tl iritl the i.ume of the tender."
 
 How to Collect and Preserve Birds. 41 
 
 CHAPTER VIII. 
 
 HOW TO COLLECT AND PRESERVE BIRDS. 
 
 It is not worth while to make a collection of 
 mounted birds. This requires too much time and 
 too much room. But, especially, skins are better 
 and more convenient for study than mounted birds. 
 Skins may be kept in a cabinet with tightly fitting 
 drawers, with plenty of camphor, or infcect powder. 
 The best arm for general purposes is the double- 
 barreled, breech-loading shot-gun. Three-fourths 
 of your cartridges should contain small charges of 
 mustard-seed shot, and the remainder, No. 8 and 
 No. 4. You can indicate the kind of shot in each 
 shell by having numbers on your shot- wads. Early 
 morning and late evening are the best hours, and 
 well-watered and wooded spots the best places for 
 collecting. As each specimen is secured, it must be 
 carefully cleansed and smoothed. Plug mouth, nos- 
 trils, vent, and shot-holes with cotton, and thrust 
 the bird head first into a paper cone, to keep the 
 plumage from injury. 
 
 A fish basket is excellent to carry the birds home. 
 Before skinning, each bird should be measured to 
 determine the total length, and the spread of wings. 
 Note, also, the color of the eyes, bill, and feet, as 
 they may fade. Enter all these memoranda in a 
 note-book, and also on the specimen label. Add 
 also date of capture, sex, locality, name of col- 
 lector, etc., etc.
 
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 See that throat, nostrils, and wounds are well 
 plugged with cotton, and fasten some also around 
 the bill. Should any blood get on the feathers re- 
 move it at once with a damp sponge, and dry with 
 plaster of Paris. Lay the bird on its back, separate 
 the breast feathers right and left, cut from the breast 
 bone to the vent (not cutting the flesh), and raise 
 the skin carefully on each side as far as the legs. 
 Cut off the legs at the knee joints, inside the skin, 
 and afterward skin down to the tarsus, scraping the 
 flesh from the shin bone, but leaving that bone in 
 place. Next skin around the coccyx, or tail bones, 
 and cut off the coccyx inside the skin, leaving 
 enough flesh to hold the feathers. Hang the bird 
 head downward, by a hook inserted in the exposed 
 stump of the rump, and carefully strip off the skin 
 by turning it back like a glove, as far as the wings : 
 cut off the wings, inside the skin, at shoulder joint. 
 Skin the wing bones, and scrape the flesh from 
 them, as from the legs. Skin over the head to the 
 bill, taking especial care not to stretch the skin. The 
 skin above the ears and eyes will have to be detach- 
 ed by cutting. The eyes must now be picked out, 
 and the entire base of the skull removed, together 
 with the brain, and the flesh between the jaws. If 
 the head is too large to be skinned in this way, an 
 incision must be made under the throat, which can 
 afterward be sewed. The skin is now inside out. 
 Powder with arsenic, or soap with arsenic soap, turn 
 it right side out, and allow it to become perfectly 
 dry. Smooth the plumage, set the bones of legs, 
 and wings into proper position, and the bird is ready
 
 How to Collect and Arrange Minerals. 43 
 
 for stuffing. A pellet of cotton, as large as the 
 bird's eye, should be passed into the skin and 
 pressed into each socket. Over this adjust the eye- 
 lids. Wrap a little cotton around the leg bones of 
 large birds. Insert a cylinder of cotton, rather 
 smaller than the neck, into the neck. Mould the 
 body-stuffing into a mass, rather smaller than the 
 bird's body. Bring the edges of the skin nicely to- 
 gether over this, and the stuffing is completed. Fold 
 the wings neatly, adjust the head and neck, bring 
 the feet together, and press the bird into the proper 
 shape. The usual fault is too much stuffing, espec- 
 ially between the shoulders. For mounting spec- 
 imens some knowledge of comparative anatomy is 
 desirable. The habits of each bird must be care- 
 fully studied, as well as its peculiar manner of sit- 
 ting, standing, holding the head, etc. The art of 
 taxidermy should be carefully studied, from such 
 manuals as Swainson's, Brown's, or Sylvester's. Of 
 the other two we cannot speak from observation, 
 but Captain Brown's book, published at $1.50, by 
 Putnam & Co., of N. Y., is excellent and very full. 
 We are indebted for much of the information con- 
 tained in this chapter to Professor Stearns' excellent 
 "Bird Life," and to the kindness of the Manhattan 
 Chaper of the A. A.
 
 44 Hand-Book. 
 
 CHAPTER IX. 
 
 HOW TO COLLECT AND ARRANGE MINERALS. 
 
 Few directions are necessary. Minerals do not 
 have to be pursued over brier and brake as butter- 
 flies, nor are they perishable in their nature. They 
 have not to be pressed nor kept in alcohol. You will 
 need a strong geologist's hammer, a sharp-pointed 
 iron, to pry crystals from the rocks, and a stout bag 
 to carry home your specimens. For the analysis of 
 minerals you will need a simple blow-pipe, a small 
 steel hammer and anvil, a magnet, a knife, a pair of 
 platinum forceps, a clay-pipe, and a few chemicals, 
 all of which are described in Brush's Determinative 
 Mineralogy and Blow-pipe Analysis. Unless, how- 
 ever, you have a competent guide at your elbow, we 
 do not advise you to begin your studies in so diffi- 
 cult a manner. I know of no better plan than to 
 procure from Ginn & Heath, W. O. Crosby's little 
 35 ct. book, "Common Minerals and Rocks," with 
 the accompanying set of labeled specimens, and 
 make yourself master of both. Fortunately the 
 number of distinct types of common minerals is 
 small, and one may easily become familiar with 
 them. Your specimens should be carefully labeled, 
 either by numbers referring to a catalogue, or by 
 cards containing the name, date, locality, etc. Speci- 
 mens of minerals will not bear huddling together 
 Their appearance is greatly enhanced by placing 
 each by itself on a neat block of wood painted white,
 
 What to do in Winter and in the City. 45 
 
 or papered. In making a collection of minerals, as. 
 in all other departments, bear in mind Prof. Agas- 
 siz's excellent advice to the effect that the most 
 valuable work a society can do, is to make a com- 
 plete collection and thorough study of the specimens 
 found near its own home. Do not let visions of 
 sparkling crystals or gleaming ores from distant 
 states blind you to the value and importance of the 
 sand-stone under your feet, the slate on your roof, 
 the coal in your cellar, or the pebbles by the brook,.
 
 46 Hand-Book. 
 
 CHAPTER X. 
 
 WHAT TO DO IX WINTER AND IX THE CITY. 
 
 No questions have been more frequently repeated. 
 None can be more easily answered. 
 
 One of the things which those who live in cities 
 can do, is to make drawings of snow-crystals to ex- 
 change for specimens more easily found in the 
 country. Catch the crystals, as they fall, on a dark 
 cloth. Look at them through a magnifying glass, 
 if you have one, and draw as well as you can from 
 memory. 
 
 The drawings should be made of a uniform diam- 
 eter of half an inch. Six drawings may be made 
 nicely on a card as large as a postal card. For con- 
 venience in exchanging, we all may make them of 
 the same size and arrange them in the same way, 
 as follows : 
 
 SNOW CRYSTALS. DRAWN BY COR WIN LFNSON-
 
 What to do in Winter and in the City. 47 
 
 To have these crystal pictures valuable, we must 
 notice the conditions which prevail as the snowfalls. 
 Look at the thermometer and barometer, and note 
 the strength of the wind, as well as the date. At- 
 tention to these details will enable us to decide 
 whether or not snow-crystals vary in shape with 
 heat and cold and density of air, etc. 
 
 Another thing you of the city can do, is to sus- 
 pend seeds over water in bottles, and study ^he 
 growth of different plants as the tiny leaves unroll. 
 Make neat cases also for insects, or minerals, and 
 exchange them for specimens. Collect specimens 
 of veneers from cabinet and piano shops, and pre- 
 pare them for exchange. Nearly all the grains, and 
 nuts, and spices, and fabrics, and seeds, and barks, 
 and woods, and metals, can be found in city shops, 
 and for these you can readily get anything you may 
 wish from the country. Again, many of you have 
 books or pictures on subjects of natural history 
 which are old to you, but which some member of 
 the Association would be very thankful to get. 
 These, also, can be exchanged. 
 
 Besides these things, we need only mention birds'- 
 nests abandoned in leafless trees, cocoons suspend- 
 ed from bushes and tucked away under fence-rails, 
 beetles burrowing in old stumps, sections of wood 
 and bark, cones and buds, to show that there is 
 plenty of out-door work, even in winter ; while, in- 
 doors, cabinets are to be built, specimens determ- 
 ined, labeled, and arranged, philosophical experi- 
 ments performed, books read, letters written, ex- 
 changes made. 
 
 Many of our members capture caterpillars and 
 other insects in the fall, and keep them during the
 
 48 Hand-Book. 
 
 winter, watching their curious habits, and wonderful 
 transformations, as is detailed in the following 
 bright letter : 
 
 "DEAR MR. BALLABD: I have been reading 'Insect 
 Lives.' It is the nicest book I have ever read. I could 
 read a whole library full of books just like that. I am get- 
 ting on famously with my collection. But one of my cater- 
 pillars does act so funny. It is the caterpillar of that moth 
 the 'Polyphemus,' is it? I found him two days ago, and 
 put him in my box. He seemed very sluggish. If I turned 
 him over, he would very slowly turn himself over back 
 again; but I thought perhaps he was going to change his 
 skin, or something like that. The next afternoon I looked 
 at him, and there were hundreds of little worms coming 
 out of holes in his skin (horrid things !) I was going to 
 burn him up, but decided to wait and see what would come 
 of it. The next morning nearly all of them had changed 
 into little grayish-brown cocoons, and tumbled off, leaving 
 tiny holes in his skin, and now he is twisting about like a 
 good fellow. ANNIE BOSWORTH." 
 
 The sequel to this tragedy was told in a subse- 
 quent letter from the same excellent observer : 
 
 "My poor worm died the day after I wrote you, and a 
 day or two after the little rice-houses began to "open, and 
 hundreds of tiny flies came out from them, but I threw 
 them away in disgust."
 
 Exchanging. 49 
 
 CHAPTER XI. 
 
 EXCHANGING. 
 
 One of the pleasantest features of the A. A. is the 
 exchange of specimens between members. Sonje 
 hints may be helpful. When you have duplicates 
 which you wish to exchange, decide as nearly as 
 possible what you wish in return. Send your re- 
 quest, tersely written, to the President. It will ap- 
 pear in St. Nicholas in either two or three months. 
 The magazine is printed sometime before it is is- 
 sued, so that you must send any notice at least two 
 months before you wish to see it in print. In pre- 
 paring packages for the mail, be sure that you en- 
 close the specimens in a box sufficiently strong to 
 withstand the frequent concussions or" the way, and 
 so securely wrapped and tied that it shall not be- 
 come undone. About one-third of the packages 
 received here, are broken on the way. Minerals 
 should be separately wrapped in paper or cloth be- 
 fore being put into the box. Eggs may safely be 
 sent in augur holes bored in little blocks of wood. 
 Flowers and^ferns should be carefully pressed be- 
 tween strong sides of paste-board. Insects should 
 be pinned with the utmost possible strength and 
 care, into boxes thoroughly lined with cork, very 
 strong, light, and doubly wrapped. Beetles and 
 bugs may be sent in cotton, like eggs. Always pre- 
 pay postage in full. Enclose no writing in the pack- 
 age (except the labels of the specimens; which are 
 allowed) but never neglect to accompany the pack-
 
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 age with a postal card or letter, describing contents, 
 stating from whom it comes, and rehearsing what 
 you expect to receive in exchange. It is often ut- 
 terly impossible to determine the sender of a pack- 
 age, or to know what to send in return. Tie the 
 parcel strongly, but do not seal it, unless you wish 
 to pay letter postage. One or two fine specimens 
 are always more acceptable than several inferior 
 ones. No propositions for exchange can be noticed 
 in the St. Nicholas, excepting from members of the 
 "A. A." For this, among other reasons, it is neces- 
 sary for us to keep a full register of all members, 
 and names of new members should always be sent 
 us at once. 
 
 Finally, we cannot consider propositions to ex- 
 change coins, stamps, autographs, or any other arti- 
 cles, excepting such as properly come under the head 
 of natural objects, or such as have scientific value. 
 Whenever you send specimens as a voluntary con- 
 tribution to the Lenox A. A. Cabinet, kindly state 
 that you require no specimens in exchange. Your 
 name shall be attached to the specimens when they 
 are placed upon our shelves. 
 
 When you write to a sister chapter proposing an 
 exchange, courtesy requires you to enclose a stamp 
 for reply. Requests of this nature should always 
 be promptly answered. Aim to give rather more 
 than you receive. A grasping spirit of trade is ut- 
 terly foreign to the nature of a true scientist.
 
 TJie Badge. 
 
 CHAPTER XII. 
 
 THE BADGE. 
 
 The badge of the A. A. is a Swiss 
 Across, of gold or silver. It is doubly 
 appropriate, because Prof. Louis Agas- 
 Isiz was born in Switzerland, and be- 
 cause we took the hint for our organiz- 
 ation from somewhat similar School 
 Scientific Societies in that country. The number 
 on the badge changes with each chapter, and is 
 the number by which each chapter is known in the 
 general organization. We are fortunate in having 
 secured the services and interest of one of the most 
 widely known badge, medal, and jewel manufac- 
 turers in the U. S., Mr. W. A. Hayward, 202 Broad- 
 way, N. Y. Badges can be obtained directly from 
 him of either style here figured, at the following 
 very low prices : 
 
 No. i or 2, solid silver, engraved, $ .50 
 solid gold, engraved, 2.00 
 
 solid gold, enameled, 3.00 
 
 No. 
 No. 
 
 No. 2 
 No. 2 
 
 solid gold, engraved, 
 solid gold, enameled, 
 
 3.00 
 4.00 
 
 We specially recommend size 
 No. i, in enameled gold. If 
 the chapters wish anything else 
 in Mr. Hayward's line, he will 
 send an illustrated design by 
 return mail.
 
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 CHAPTER XIII. 
 
 REPORTS FROM CHAPTERS AND CORRESPONDING 
 
 MEMBERS. 
 
 Perhaps the actual working of our Society cannot 
 better be illustrated than by giving a few extracts 
 from the thousands of letters that constantly come 
 to us from our friends of the A. A. We shall select 
 such as contain practical suggestions for work ; and 
 the first shows what may be done in the way of out- 
 door excursions : 
 
 SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH. 
 
 I write to inform you of the organization of a Chapter of 
 the Agassiz Association in Salt Lake City. Several of us 
 boys have been more or less interested in natural history 
 for some time, and when we read about the A. A. in St. 
 Nicholas, we thought that it was just what we wanted. So 
 on Wednesday, August 2d, four of us met and organized 
 the Chapter. 
 
 We have already taken several tramps after specimens. 
 On the first one we found the terminal moraine of a glacier, 
 and our honorary member gave us a long description* of 
 glaciers the manner of their formation and movements, 
 and the way in which moraines are formed. Our last trip 
 was to a mining district situated 9300 feet above the sea. 
 It lasted five days, and we walked sixty miles, and found 
 many rare Alpine plants, fossils, minerals, and bugs. 
 
 FRED. E. LEONARD, Box 265. 
 
 The next shows how Boards of Education help us: 
 
 HYDE PARK, ILLINOIS. 
 
 I am happy to inform you that a Xatural History Asso- 
 ciation has been formed In our high school. We have 17 
 members, all of whom are very enthusiastic in their work. 
 We all desire to connect ourselves with the A. A. We had . 
 a cabinet made, which cost $25.00. The Board of Educa-"
 
 Reports from Chapters, or-Y. jj* 
 
 tion has kindly advanced the cost of this, provided we leave 
 our collection in the building. They also allow us to meet 
 in the building. We have an entrance fee of 50c. , in order 
 that none but "workers" may join. We are very careful 
 about electing new members. Address 
 
 W. R. GWYNN, Box 237. 
 
 Among our most delightful branches, are what 
 we call "Family Chapters," in which the members 
 of one family unite to form a little society and study 
 together. 
 
 FLUSHING, L. I. 
 
 I want to tell you how much we enjoy our meetings. 
 The subject of the last meeting was Mistletoe, and here is 
 what was said about it. Mamma said, "The botanical name 
 of the mistletoe is Vise am album. In olden times it was 
 thought to be poisonous, for Shakespeare speaks of the 
 4 baleful Mistletoe. ' The Druids used it in religious rites. 
 It is a parasite, growing chiefly on apple-trees." Miss Scott 
 had tasted the berry, which is sweet and glutinous. She 
 painted me a lovely picture of mistletoe and holly. In the 
 evenings when Papa is at home, we have music, and, if 
 possible, pieces bearing on our subject; for instance, this 
 evening we had a song entitled "The Mistletoe Bough." 
 and an instrumental piece, the "Mistletoe Polka." Mamma 
 plays on the violin, and I on the organ or piano. 
 
 From your friend, F. M. H. 
 
 There is no limit with regard to age. Little 
 children have bright eyes. 
 
 THE OAKS, TIOGA CENTER, X. Y. 
 I am nine, and my sister is five. We have examined a 
 geranium-bug, and it is beautiful. Its body is green, and 
 it has six legs that are clear like crystal. The antenna? are 
 longer than the insect, and are sometimes thrown back- 
 ward. It has a long beak. The body has two horns at the 
 end. The eyes are reddish brown, with tin}' white dots. 
 ANGIE LATTMER, Sec.
 
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 ST. PAUL, MINN.. Sept. 9, 1882. 
 
 DEAR MR. BALLARD: We had a few caterpillars, but 
 they all took off their hair, and lay down in it and died. 
 
 FRANK RAMALEY. 
 
 Several of our Chapters publish local papers. 
 
 MACOMB, ILL. 
 
 Progressing nicely We meet at each other's houses 
 every Friday ^afternoon after school. Almost all of us have 
 been collecting insects during the summer. We have a 
 paper read every two weeks, to which we contribute orig- 
 inal articles on anything pertaining to Natural History. 
 The chapter is divided into two parts, and each part edits 
 the paper alternately. We cannot understand how other 
 chapters have so nice club-rooms and cabinets and micro- 
 scopes, etc. Where do they get their money? We like 
 the A. A. I'crij iiincJi. NELLIE H. TFNMCLIFF. 
 
 The next letter shows how to raise money when 
 it is needed. 
 
 BUFFALO, N. Y. 
 
 Our report is somewhat tardy, owing to an entertainment 
 given for our microscope fund. We realized $8."), which, 
 with the amount on hand, gives us about $100 to invest in 
 a good instrument. Our Chapter has increased to twenty- 
 four active and two honorary members. Owing to the late- 
 ness of the season, we have collectively made but one 
 excursion, though individually we have not been idle. 
 
 CORA FREEMAN, Cor. Sec. B. Chapter A. A. 
 
 The girls are as enthusiastic workers as the boys. 
 
 We are pupils of the Waco Female College, Texas. 
 About four years ago our teacher began to teach us to love 
 nature, and, to keep our eyes and ears open, often took us 
 to the woods. Oh, how we enjoyed those rambles! Such 
 rides to and from the woods! *We soon got a collection, 
 and determined to form a Natural History Society. We 
 were deliberating on a name when, to our great joy, your 
 first article in St. Nicholas was read to us. W'itha'few- 
 vt.riations we forthwith adopted the name, constitution.
 
 Reports from Chapters, &c. 55 
 
 and by-laws. Since then we have varied with wind and 
 weather, but have now launched upon a smooth-sailing sea. 
 We have twenty-six members. Some of our prominent 
 citizens have joined us. By carefully hoarding our dues 
 of admission, etc., we have been able to buy a fine micro- 
 scope, a number of shells, and a few books and pictures. 
 We have a book in which the librarian pastes articles and 
 pictures selected by some one member every week. We 
 have another into which the Secretary transcribes the papers 
 read by the members before the Society, and also articles 
 of interest which can not be cut from valuable books. The 
 President always appoints one member to ask three ques- 
 tions to be answered at the next meeting. The correct 
 answers are copied into our manuscript scrap-book. We 
 often take questions from the St. Nicholas. Oh! we have 
 so much to say to you, and to ask, I hardly know where to 
 begin or leave off. We have a specimen of the Texas centi- 
 pede for exchange, also a stinging lizard and a horned frog. 
 Miss JENNIE WISE, Box 554, Waco, Texas. 
 
 And our ranks are recruited by an increasing 
 number of adult members, who are particularly 
 welcome. 
 
 LAKE CITY, MINN., Oct. 19, 1882. 
 MR. H. H. BALLARD, 
 
 DEAR SIR: I have been deeply interested in your A. A. 
 for some time back, and shall gladly become one of you in 
 earnest. Such a union can not but result in the greatest 
 benefit to our young people, opening, as it does, Nature's 
 book to many of them with its inexhaustible pages, and the 
 release from care in after years that their perusal will give. 
 
 If I remain here throughout the winter, I shall endeavor 
 to bring some of our young folks together as a nucleus for 
 a new Chapter. I can start them, at all events. 
 
 E. A. PATTON, M. D. 
 
 When a wide-awake teacher takes hold of the 
 matter, the most important results follow. 
 
 About six months ago, Chapter 266, A. A., was organ- 
 ized in connection with my school. We have succeeded 
 wonderfully, both in point of numbers and collections. We
 
 56 Hand-book. 
 
 now number thirty-three, and the prospects are that we 
 shall soon have as many more. The boys, some twenty or 
 more, hare over five hundred specimens, consisting of 'fos- 
 sils and insects. The girls, of whom we have lately added 
 a dozen, are busily engaged in gathering leaves, roots, and 
 seeds, and, when they make a report, we will classifiy them 
 botanically. The whole neighborhood has been awakened 
 by the enthusiasm of the boys and girls. All this work is 
 collateral ; that is, no part of school time is taken up. The 
 County Superintendent of Schools was so delighted with 
 the idea, that he has earnestly requested me to bring the 
 matter before our County Institute, the third week in De- 
 cember. The Institute numbers six hundred teachers, and 
 if this is done, the A. A., no doubt, will spread in this 
 county. T. G. JONES, St. Clair, Schuyl. Co.. Pa. 
 
 Another marked instance is that of Chapter 285. 
 Greenfield, Mass., as shown by this extract from 
 the Springfield Republican : 
 
 ' ' Principal Sanderson started a good deal of zeal among 
 the high school pupils, some two years ago. in the study of 
 natural history, and as a result the natural history society 
 was organized. The work began in a small way in the 
 collection of birds, plants, and minerals, until the founda- 
 tion has been laid for a permanent museum. The Society 
 now has one large case of .stuffed birds, containing 150 well- 
 preserved specimens. These are nostly native birds, caught 
 and mounted by members of the Society. Several in this 
 way have become quite expert taxidermists. The Society 
 belongs to the Agassi/ Association, and by exchanges has 
 added to some of Ihe departments. The local organization 
 is made up of thirty-six members, who were "ambitious 
 enough, last fall, to hire of the town the old brick house 
 near the high-school building, paying a rental of $150 a 
 year. ThestT youthful scientific investigators want encour- 
 agement from the citizens at large, and are going to ask the 
 town, at its annual meeting, to contribute the rent of this 
 building. It would seem that the voters could very prop- 
 erly encourage the young people in this way. As the nat- 
 ural history rooms are located close to the high- school . 
 building, it' can very readily be made a beneficial adjunct
 
 Reports from Chapters, &c. 57 
 
 to the public schools. Already the zoological classes have 
 enjoyed the advantages of these rooms and their collec- 
 tions." 
 
 A love for Nature often affects the whole char- 
 acter. 
 
 But the best of all, and that for which I want sincerely to 
 thank the "A. A." and its projector, is the result of the 
 work in one particular case. As a teacher, you know how 
 difficult it is to do just the best thing with a roguish, care- 
 less boy, smart, but caring little for study and with little or 
 no will to work. Geology last year and chemistry this, 
 prepared him for an elementary course in determinative 
 mineralogy. This he has undertaken, under the guise of 
 association work, and to this we largely attribute a most 
 wonderful improvement in the boy. Spare moments are 
 spent in the laboratory instead of in mischief; he has begged 
 to return to Latin, which he had dropped, and bids fair to 
 stand at or near the head of his class in that and other 
 studies. Instead of lawless lounging at recess, he is quiet 
 and gentlemanly. A FRIEND. 
 
 Boys can accomplish excellent results by them- 
 selves. 
 
 Another eventful year has passed, and left "success" 
 written on all our records. During the year, 31 essays 
 have been read, and 21 regularly announced discussions 
 have been successfully held. Our roll of members has been 
 increased from 13 to 18. In our library are 68 bound 
 volumes, and 439 magazines. Besides these, we have a 
 scrap-book, folio, and several charts, and files of essays. 
 We have a balance of $64.83 to our credit. 
 
 A. NEHRBAS, Sec., New York, B. 
 
 Many chapters study animals alive. 
 
 RACINE, Wis. 
 
 A. We intend to begin collecting plants as soon as the 
 snow is oft the ground. We shall also make a collection of 
 the skeletons of the fish we catch next year. We have a 
 place arranged for an aviary, also. We had an aquarium 
 running all last year. JOHN L. McCALMAN, Sec.
 
 j Hand-book. 
 
 Valuable libraries and reading rooms are found- 
 ed in connection with the A. A. 
 
 MONTREAL, CANADA. 
 
 We have a splendid cabinet, 6 feet high, 3 feet wide, and 
 2 feet deep, containing forty-eight drawers, twenty-two of 
 which are allotted to the entomological section. Nineteen 
 of these are already filled with insects. Our library promises 
 to become a great 'success. We are trying to secure a room 
 in the. St. Antoine School for a museum and reading room. 
 We have had two very successful field-meetings, on one of 
 which prizes were offered for the best collection made dur- 
 ing the day. I expect to see the Montreal branch of the A. 
 A. take a leading position among the scientific institutions 
 of Canada. One of our most successful evenings was spent 
 with the microscope. W. D. SHAW. 
 
 In some cases, members take turns in giving 
 lectures. 
 
 We have given a parlor concert. C. K. Liuson gave 
 us a " chalk talk." At one side of the parlor we had a table 
 with some specimens on it; and after the entertainment we 
 invited our friends to inspect them. We have now money 
 enough to get a cabinet. We have decided to have a course 
 of lectures one delivered by each member on his chosen 
 branch. A. ~D. PHILLIPS, Brooklyn, E. 
 
 I append a few 
 
 that have been made by members of the A. A., 
 partly to show what sort of work is being done, and 
 partly to furnish a suggestion to new members of 
 what they can do. These notes, as well as the 
 letters from chapters and friends already given, are 
 taken almost at random from our monthly reports 
 that have appeared in St. Nicholas. Those wishing 
 a full knowledge of our work, must refer to the 
 numbers of that magazine since November, 1880.
 
 Reports from Chapters, c^v. Jp 
 
 I have observed with great interest the rise and pro- 
 gress of the A. A. , and write this note to contribute a sug- 
 gestion for their use. One of the most desirable modes of 
 research would be to raise wild plants from seed, for the 
 purpose of ascertaining the limits of variation in certain 
 groups. Especially interesting for this inquiry are the 
 Canadensis section of Solidayo, Vaccinium Penmylmnicum, 
 Aster corynibosus and Ifvris, and Datura Stramonium. Let 
 each person collect the seeds of a single plant only, which 
 should be carefully identified, and sow and cultivate them 
 till maturity. WM H. SEAMAN, 
 
 Prof. Chem., Washington, D. C. 
 
 Silk worms What they will eat. Not being able to 
 obtain white mulberry leaves, which are, I believe, the 
 only mulberry leaves on which the Bonibyx morivi\\\ thrive, 
 I fed them on leaves of Osage-orange. At the time I was 
 raising about 2000 larva?. These leaves must be plucked 
 sometime before, so as to allow them to wilt before giving 
 them to the worms. This rule must be rigidly observed. I 
 made an experiment to test it. I placed four healthy worms 
 in a sieve by themselves, and fed them exclusively on fresh 
 leaves. They grew wonderfully, and reached their largest " 
 size before the others; but as soon as they began to spin 
 they grew sickly and weak, and after forming slight 
 cocoons, died entangled in the silk. Most of those fed on 
 wilted leaves spun well. If the question were simply, 
 'What will silk-worms eat?" I might answer, with a good 
 degree of accuracy, that they will eat every leaf that grows; 
 but as I know you desire to know what they will thrive on, 
 I highly recommend Osage-orange. A Friend of the A. A. 
 
 Flower x under a handkerchief. We came to a spot 
 which Dr. Hammond covered with his handkerchief, and 
 we guessed how many kinds of plants were growing under 
 it. There were ten: a violet, a dandelion, an aster, a 
 buttercup, a hepatica, a fern, a Mitchella vine, a daisy, a 
 plantain, a veronica. Emily S. Warren. 
 
 Winter. I feel as keen delight in the approach of 
 winter as I should if spring, with all her glories, were at the 
 gate. For me, the vast white carpet, absolutely without 
 a stain, the low-Ranging sun, and the trees that respond to
 
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 the winter wind, have peculiar charms. Linwood M. 
 Howe. Hallowell, Me. 
 
 Cow Blackbird. I found four cow-birds' eggs in a nest 
 with one egg of the Wilson's thrush. Has any one else 
 found so many in one nest ? X. 
 
 Nfght-hawk asleep. Last August, I saw, about seven 
 o'clock one evening, what I took to be a dead bird lying on 
 a stone wall by theT road -side. It was half lying, half lean- 
 ing, against a stone. I clambered up the bank to get it, 
 making some noise. Just as I put out my hand to pick it 
 up. with a great flap and rush by my face, the bird soared 
 up into the air. As soon as it opened its wings, I knew it 
 to be a night-hawk by the white spots on the under side of 
 them, and by the peculiar cry it uttered. Wm. Carter. 
 
 Humming-bird* learn by experience. A young lady 
 watched some humming-birds taking nectar from the 
 flowers of our abutilon. The full-grown birds pushed their 
 bills in between the calyx and corolla, just as the bees I 
 wrote of some months ago, nipped a hole in the petunias, in 
 order to get more easily at the nectar. But the most curious 
 thing is, that the young birds tried to take their drink in 
 the ordinary way. by going inside the bell of the flower, 
 and it was only as they grew in wisdom and stature that 
 they learned from their parents the . shorter way. The 
 young lady is quite confident that the smaller birds were 
 not of a different kind, but the young of the larger 
 birds. C. 
 
 We have received the heartiest sympathy and 
 help from a large number of distinguished and 
 
 GENEROUS SCIENTISTS. 
 
 I shall present later a classified list of these gentle- 
 men, but I cannot forbear giving here a few of their 
 kind letters, to illustrate the utterly unselfish and 
 philanthropic spirit that animates men thoroughly 
 devoted to Natural Science. 
 
 "I have watched, with more interest than I can readily 
 communicate, the genesis and developmenrof the A. A. In
 
 Reports from Chapters, &c. 61 
 
 answer to your call for assistance, I shall be most happy to 
 identify minerals and the commoner forms of paleozoic 
 fossils. WM. M. BOWRON, [F. C. S.] 
 
 South Pittsburg, Tenn." 
 
 "DEPARTMENT OP AGRICULTURE, ) 
 
 "DIVISION OF ENTOMOLOGY, WASHINGTON, D. C. \ 
 ' ' I chanced to pick up a number of St. Nicholas this even- 
 ing, and learned for the first time of the A. A., and saw 
 evidences of its good work. I also noticed your call for an 
 entomologist , and desire to offer my services. Our facilities 
 here for identifying species in the great group of insects are 
 exceptionally good, and I should be very glad if I could 
 help any boy or girl in his or her studies in that direc- 
 tion. LELAND O. HOWARD." 
 
 "CORNELL UNIV., ITHACA, N, Y., Jan. 20, 1883. 
 
 "I have not yet outgrown my sympathy for the younger 
 people. I will gladly answer their questions so far as time 
 will p'ermit, and will make time for their sakes, even when 
 I am busy. My especial department is certain parts of 
 Phsenogamic and Cryptogamic Botany; among other things, 
 the grasses, ferns, and mosses. 
 
 ' ' I shall always be delighted to serve the boys and girls, 
 even at the busiest moments. 
 
 WILLIAM RUSSELL DUDLEY." 
 
 WATERVILLE, MAINE, March 20, 1883. 
 ' ' I read with much interest the account of the Agassiz 
 Association in last St. Nicholas. It is a work that has my 
 heartiest sympathy, and I would like it to have also what 
 little cooperation I may be able to render. I shall be happy 
 to answer questions relating to the mineralogy of Maine. 
 
 CHAS. B. WILSON, 
 " Instructor Nat. Sc., Colby University." 
 
 " If your correspondents desire the names of any ferns, 
 grasses, or plants in general, or any information on the sub- 
 ject of botany, I shall be glad to answer all such, or at least 
 all that come from west of the Mississippi. I realize the 
 value of such work as you are doing. 
 
 "MARCUS E. JONES, Salt Lake City, Utah.
 
 &2 Hand-book. 
 
 ' ACADEMY NATURAL SCIENCE, OF PHILADELPHIA. 
 
 "19th and Race streets, March 1, 1883. 
 "Having seen your call in St. Nicliolfi* of this month, for 
 assistance in answering the many questions brought for- 
 ward by the members of the A. A., I take pleasure in offer- 
 ing my aid. My specialties are entomology and conchology. 
 With earnest desire for the success of the society, 
 
 G. HOWARD PARKER. 
 
 "MILWAUKEE, Wis., March 30, 1884. 
 "I am working on the Jumping Spiders (Attidcp), of the 
 world. I should be very happy to determine spiders in 
 this group from any locality, for members of the A. A. 
 
 GEO. W. PECKHAM." 
 
 " I should be glad to assist the A. A. in any matter re- 
 lating to marine zoology. C. F. HOLDER. 
 
 Am. Museum Xat. Hist.. 
 Central Park (77th St. and 8th Are.). X. Y. 
 
 These gentlemen and the others who have thus 
 freely offered their aid can hardly realize how great 
 a service they are rendering. Here are over 7000 
 young and older amateur naturalists belonging to 
 our society, most of whom, living in remote towns, 
 have few opportunities of instruction in the subjects 
 of their choice. They are now placed in such a 
 position that they can go on with their observations 
 without leaving home ; can be advised as to the 
 best books for consultation in their several depart- 
 ments ; can exchange specimens and thoughts with 
 members in all the different States and Territories ; 
 and can have the assistance of men trained in spec- 
 ial departments of science, and all without expense. 
 May not the A. A. be the means of solving one of 
 the most perplexing educational questions of the . 
 dav ?
 
 Addresses of Specialists. 63 
 
 CHAPTER XIV. 
 
 ADDRESSES OF SPECIALISTS. 
 
 The names and addresses of the gentlemen that 
 have volunteered to aid us by answering questions 
 in their several departments, are here given, and any 
 member of the A. A. is at liberty to consult them 
 regarding whatever perplexity he may meet in his 
 branch of study, special heed being paid to the con- 
 ditions of correspondence added below. 
 
 BOTANY. 
 
 I. X. E. States and Canada Prof. C. H. K. Sanderson, 
 
 Greenfield, Mass. 
 
 II. Middle States Dr. Charles Atwood. 
 
 Moravia, N. Y. 
 
 III. Middle States Prof. W. R. Dudley, 
 
 (Ferns, sedges and grasses), Ithaca, N. Y. 
 
 IV. Middle States Prof, Edw. L. French, 
 
 Wells College, Aurora. N. Y. 
 
 V. Southern States Dr. Chapman, 
 
 Apalachicola, Fla. 
 
 VI. Western states to Colorado Dr. Aug. F. Foerste, 
 
 (Puff-balls a specialty), Dayton, O. 
 
 VII. Far West and North-west Dr. Marcus E. Jones, 
 
 Salt Lake City, Utah. 
 
 ; VIII. In General Prof. W. Trealease, S. B.. 
 
 Univ. Wis., Madison, Wis. 
 
 CONCHOLOGY. 
 
 I. Prof. Bruce Richards, 1726 N. 18th st., Philadelphia. Pa. 
 
 II. Mr. Thomas Morgan, Somerville, N. J. 
 
 III. Mr. H. A. Pilsbry, Davenport, Iowa. 
 
 IV. Prof. C. Howard Parker, 688 Main st., Cambridge, Mass. 
 
 A T . Mr. Harry E. Dore, 521 Clay st., San Francisco, Cal. (Pacific 
 Mollusca). 
 
 ENTOMOLOGY. 
 
 I. Prof. G. Howai-d Parker (address above). 
 II. Prof, C. H. Fernald, State College, Orono, Me. (Lepidoptera). 
 TIT. Mr. H. L. Fernald, Orono, Me. (Hemiptera). 
 IV. Prof. Leland O. Howard, Dep. Agriculture. Entomological 
 Div., Washington, D. C.
 
 6 4 
 
 Hand-book. 
 
 V. Prof. H. Atwoqd, Office Germania Life Ins. Co., Rochester, X. 
 
 Y. (Parasites and micr(^<-njiic infusoria). 
 VI. Dr. Aug. F. Foerste, Dayton, O. (Spiders}. 
 VII. Mr. Fred C. Bowditch, Tappan st., Brookline, Mass. (Co- 
 
 leoptera}. 
 VIII. Mr. A. W. Putman-Cramer, 51 Douglass st., Brooklyn, X. Y. 
 
 (Macro-Lepidoptera). 
 
 IX. Prof. J. A. Lintner (State Entomologist >. Xew Capitol, Al- 
 bany, X. Y. 
 
 ETHNOLOGY. 
 
 I. Prof. H. T. Cresson, Acad. Nat. Sc., cor. 19th and Race sts.. 
 Philadelphia, Pa. 
 
 GEOLOGY. 
 
 I. Mr. Wm. H. Briggs, Columbia, Cal. 
 II. Mr. Jas. C. Lathrop. 134 Park ave., Bridgeport, Conn. 
 
 III. Mr. W. R. Lighten. Ottumwa, Iowa. 
 
 TV. Prof. Wm. M. Bowron, South Pittsburg. Tenn. 
 V. Prof. C. R. Vanhise, M. S., Univ. Wis., Madison, Wis. 
 
 MINERALOGY. 
 
 I. Prof. Wm. R. Bowron (address above). 
 
 II. Mr. Jas. C. Lathrop (address above). 
 
 Ill Prof. F. W. Staebner. Westfield, Mass. 
 
 IV. Mr. Chas. B. Wilson, Colby University, Waterville, Me. i Min- 
 
 eral* of Mai /" i . 
 
 V Mr David Allan, box 113. Webster Groves, Missouri. 
 VI. Prof. S. F. Peckham, Bristol, R. I. 
 
 OOLOGY. 
 
 I. D. H. Eaton, Woburn. Mass., Box 12:35. 
 II. F. H. Lattin, Gaines, X. Y. 
 
 ORNITHOLOGY. 
 
 I. Mr. James De B. Abbott, Germantown, Pa. 
 II. Mr. Arthur P. Chadbourne, 21 Buckingham st., Cambridge, 
 
 Mass. 
 
 i in. Prof. S. W. Willard (Wisconsin Bird*}, West De Pere, Wis. 
 IV. Prof. C. A. Menefee, Los Gatos, California. 
 
 PHYSIOLOGY. 
 
 I. Chas. Everett Warren, M. D., 51 Union Park, Boston, Mass. 
 II. Wm. M. Bail*, M. D., Washington, X. J. 
 
 ZOOLOGY. 
 
 I. Dr. C. F. Holder, American Museum Xat. Hist.. Central Park 
 
 X. Y., 77th st. and Eighth ave. (Marine Life}. 
 II. Dr. Aug. Foerste, Dayton, O. (Mammals). 
 III. Prof. E. A. Birge, Ph.D., Univ. Wis., Madison, Wis.
 
 Conditions of Correspondence. 65 
 
 CONDITIONS OF CORRESPONDENCE. 
 
 The following rules must be strictly regarded 
 not only in corresponding with the gentlemen just 
 named, but also in addressing the President. 
 
 i st. Enclose in each letter requiring an answer, a 
 stamped and self-addressed envelope, or a postal card. 
 ( The envelope is better, as we frequently wish to reply 
 by a circular, or full letter?) 
 
 2d. Do not write for assistance until you have tried 
 your best to succeed without it. That is : Do not 
 ask lazy questions. Consult the index of this book 
 and see if the answer cannot be found within. 
 
 3d. Use the ordinary size and style of writing 
 paper, and write only on one side of the leaf. 
 
 4th. Give your full address in each letter, and give 
 P. O. Box rather than street and number. State also 
 the number of the Chapter of which you are a member. 
 
 5th. Do not waste time by sending letters or notices 
 of exchange to the St. Nicholas. It merely causes the 
 editors the trouble of re- mailing them to the President.
 
 66 tfand-Book. 
 
 CHAPTER XV. 
 
 BOOKS RECOMMENDED. 
 
 (The Roman numerals refer to the Publisher*' aiM )?*&* /-/;/>* //,,//. 
 Sot.** >////"/ in* Illustrated.) 
 
 BIOLOGY. 
 
 Huxley, T. H. Physical Basis of Life. 15c. I. 
 
 Magginley, T. C. *Biology. $1.25. II. 
 
 Stevenson, S. H. *Boys and Girls in Biology. $150. III. 
 Wythe, J. H. Easy Lessons in Vegetable 
 
 Biology/ 40c. XXIV. 
 
 BOTANY. 
 
 Bailey. W. W. ' Collectors Hand-book. (Very 
 
 valuable.) $1.50. XXX. 
 
 Bessey, C. E. Botany. (One of the latest and best.) Till. 
 Brown, D. T. *Trees of America. (Popular and 
 
 Sc.) $5.50. VI. 
 
 Darwin. Chas. Insectivorous Plants. $2.00. III. 
 *Variations of Animals and 
 
 Plants. $5.00. III. 
 
 Goodale. G. L. *A few Common Plants. 2oc. IX. 
 Gray, A. *Manual of Botany, with Lessons. $3.00. IV. 
 
 *School and Field" Botany. $2.50. IV. 
 " Structural and Systematic Botany. $3.50. IV. 
 
 Herrick S. B. *Wonders of Plant Life. $L50. II. 
 Hervev, Rev. A. B. *Sea Mosses. A complete 
 
 Guide. $2.00. . XXX. 
 
 Hooker, Sir W. J. *Every Known Fern. $11.00. II. 
 
 Hough, F. B. Elements of Forestry. $2.00. V. 
 
 Jones, Marcus E. Ferns of the West. 30c. X. 
 
 Pendleton, E. M. Scientific Agriculture, $1.50. VII. 
 Underwood, L. M., Ph. D. *Our Native Ferns. 
 
 $1.50. 
 
 Willis, O. R. Flora of New Jersey. $1.00. 
 
 Wood, A. ^American Botanist and Florist, $2,50. VII. 
 
 *Class Book of Botany. $3.50. VII. 
 
 Wood, H. C. *Fresh Water Algae of K A. $7.50. II." 
 
 Youmans. E. A. *First Book of Botany. 85c. III.
 
 Books Recommended. 67 
 
 ENTOMOLOGY. 
 
 Billiard, J. P. "'Insect Lives. $1.00. V. 
 
 Conant, H. S. *Butterfly Hunters. $1.50. XI. 
 Edwards. Butterflies of N. A. 1st series, $30.00. 
 
 2d series, in parts, each $2.50. XII. 
 Harris, T. W. *Insects Injurious to Vegetation. 
 
 $4.00 and $6.50. XIV. 
 Lubbock, Sir John. *Ants, Bees and Wasps. $2.00. III. 
 
 Manton. How to Catch Insects. 50c. XXII. 
 Packard, A. S. Jr. *Guide to Study of Insects. 
 
 $5.00. VIII. 
 
 Richmond, G. II. Insect Collecting. lOc. XV. 
 
 Agassiz, L. Sketches. 2 yols. Each $2.50. XII. 
 Crosby, W. Common Minerals and Rocks. 35c. 
 
 (With 50 labeled specimens, $1.50.) IX. 
 
 Dana, J. D. *Manual of Geology. $5.00. IV. 
 
 Geological Story, briefly told. $1.50. IV. 
 
 Geikie, A. Geology. 50c. III. 
 Hovey, H. C. *Celebrated American Caverns. $2.00. V. 
 
 Huxley, T. H. Geology. 50c. III. 
 
 Kingsley, Chas. Town Geology. 15c. I. 
 Mantell, G. A. Petrifactions and their Teachings. 
 
 $2.50. XVIII. 
 Shaler, N. S. *Fossil Branchiopods of tlie Ohio. 
 
 $2.50. V. 
 
 Tyndall, J. *Forms of Water. 15c. I. 
 
 Winchell, Alex. * World Life. $2.50. XVII. 
 " Sparks from a Geologist's 
 
 Hammer. $2.00. XVII. 
 Winchell, Alex. *Geological Excursions (for 
 
 young learners). XVII. 
 
 MICROSCOPY. 
 
 Davies, T. -Preparation of Objects. $1.50. II. 
 
 Gosse, P. H. '^Evenings at the Microscope. $1.50. III. 
 
 Phin, J. *Practical Hints on Selection and use of 
 
 a Microscope. 75c. (abridged 80c.), XIX. 
 
 Wood, J. G. Common Objects. 400 illustra- 
 tions. 50c. XIX.
 
 68 Hand-book. 
 
 MINERALOGY. 
 
 Brush, G. J. *Manual of Determinative Mineralogy 
 
 and Blow-pipe Analysis. $3.00. XX. 
 
 Dana, J. D. Manual of Mineralogy. $1.50. XXXII. 
 Hyatt, A. Pebbles. 35c. XI. 
 
 NATURAL HISTORY. 
 
 Agassiz, Mrs. *First Lesson in Nat. Hist. 30c. IX. , 
 
 Agassiz, L. Methods of Study. $1.50. XI. 
 
 Albertsen, F. *Four-footed Lovers. (For children). 
 
 $1.00. XXII. 
 
 Chadbourne, P. A. Lectures. 7oc. VII. 
 
 Cecil's *Natural History. 85c. XXI. 
 
 Darwin, C. Vegetable Mould and Earthworms. 
 
 $1.50. III. 
 
 Harris, A. B. *Door Yard Folks. $1.00. XXIII. 
 
 Hinlon, J. *Life in Nature. 15c. I. 
 
 Hooker, W. *Child's Book of Nature. 3 parts. 
 No. 1, 60c. ; 2 and 3, each 65c. ; bound 
 
 in one, $1.60. VI. 
 
 Huxley, T. H. *Physiography. An introduction 
 to the study of Nature. (Very valuable.) 
 
 $2.50. III. 
 
 Ingersoll, Ernest. *Old Ocean $1.00. XXIII. 
 
 Kingsley. ^Naturalists' Assistant. A complete 
 
 fide to the care of the cabinet. XXXI. 
 
 *A Natural History Reader. $1.25. III. 
 
 White, G. Selborne. 75c. VI. 
 
 ORNITHOLOGY. 
 
 Austin. *Taxidermy without a Teacher. 50c. XXII. 
 
 Baird, S. F. *Land" Birds of California. $10.00. XXV. 
 
 Brown, T. ^Manual of Taxidermy. $1.50. II. 
 
 Coues, Elliott, *Birds of the Northwest. $4.50. XXXI. 
 Coues, Elliott. *Key to North American Birds, 
 
 including "Field Ornithology." $10.00. XXVI. 
 Jasper, T. Birds of N. A. Col. plates, in 40 
 
 parts at $1.00 each, or 2 vols. ; royal 4to. 
 
 Half morocco, $50; full morocco, $60. V:
 
 Books Recommended, 69 
 
 Minot, H. D. *Land and Game Birds of K E. 
 The birds, their nests, eggs, habits and 
 
 notes. 1 vol. [An excellent book.] XXVI. 
 
 Stearns, W. A. *Bird Life ; a Manual of Orni- 
 thology. $5.00. XXII. 
 
 Willard, S. L. *Manual of Oology. $1.50. XIII. 
 
 ZOOLOGY. 
 
 Buckland, F. T. *Log-book of Zoologist. $3.00. XVIII. 
 
 Buckley, A. B. *Life and her Children. $1.50. III. 
 
 * Winners in Life's Race. $1.50. III. 
 
 Butler, H. D. Family Aquarium. 75c. I. 
 
 Check-list of North American Shells. 25c. XXVII. 
 
 Darwin, Chas. Origin of Species. $2.00. III. 
 
 *Descent of Man. $3.00. III. 
 
 Emerton, J. H. Structure and Habits of Spiders. 
 
 $1.50. XIII. 
 Garman, Samuel. *Reptiles and Batrachians of N. 
 
 A. 4to. pp. 185, 9 pi. paper. $4.00. V. 
 
 Girard, C. *Fresh Water Fish of N. A. $1.50. XXVII. 
 
 Gosse, P. H. *Romance of Nat. Hist. XVIII. 
 Huxley, T. H. *The Crayfish. An introduction 
 
 to the study of Zoology. 82m. $1 75. III. 
 Huxley, T. H. Origin of Species. 15c. 
 
 Lectures on Evolution. 15c. I. 
 
 Hyatt, A. *Oyster, Clam, etc. 30c. IX. 
 
 *Hydroids, Corals, etc. 25c. IX. 
 
 *Sponges. 25c. IX. 
 
 Mivart. The Cat. [For advanced students.] XVI. 
 
 Morse, E. S. *First book of Zoology. , III. 
 Mulertt, Hugo. *The Goldfish and its Culture. 
 
 $1.00. V. 
 
 Steele, J. D. *14 weeks in Zoology. $1.50. VII. 
 Tenney, S. *Mauual of Zoology. $3 and $4 XXVIII. 
 Wilson, Andrew. Ph. D. Facts and Fictions of 
 
 Z. 15c. I. 
 
 Wood, J. G. *Homes without Hands. $4.50. VI. 
 
 Woodward. Manual of Mollusca. XXVII. 
 
 MISCELLANEOUS. 
 
 Agassiz, L. *Journey in Brazil. $3.00. XII. 
 Bright well, C. L. Lives of Labor. $1.25.
 
 ~o Hand-Book. 
 
 Gatty, Mrs. A. *Parables from Nature. Toe. XXIX. 
 
 Huxley. T. H. Darwin and Humboldt. 15e. I. 
 
 Ingersoll, Ernest. *Friends worth Knowing. $1. VI. 
 
 Manton. Hand-book for Water Drinkers. 50c. XXII. 
 
 Mudie, R. Observations of Nature. Toe. VI. 
 
 Smiles, Samuel. ^Scotch Naturalist. $1.50. VI. 
 
 ^Robert Dick ; Baker, Geologist 
 
 and Botanist. $1.50. VI. 
 
 The Naturalist's Directory : containing an alphabetical list 
 of nearly all the Naturalists of the U. S., with their 
 specialties and addresses. XIII. 
 
 Herbarium Ballard, H. H., and Thayer, S. P. For the 
 convenient preservation of flowers, ferns and leaves. 
 $1 to $3.50. Contains directions for collecting and 
 preserving plants; Blanks for an Analytical Record of 
 each specimen, pages for mounting plants, and gummed 
 paper to fasten them. 20 per cent, discount to members of 
 the A. A. Address the Author. 
 
 PUBLISHERS' ADDRESSES. 
 
 I. J. Fitzgerald, 20 Lafayette place, N. Y. 
 
 II. G. P. Putnam's Sons, 27 W. 23d street, N. Y. 
 
 III. D. Appleton & Co., 1 Bond street. N. Y. 
 
 IV. Ivison, Blakeman, Taylor <fc Co., 138 Grand 
 
 street, Ne.w York. 
 V. Robert Clarke & Co., 61 W. 4th street, 
 
 Cincinnati. Ohio. 
 
 VI. Harper & Brothers, Franklin Square, X. Y. 
 VII. A. S. Barnes & Co., 1 William st., N. Y. 
 VIII. Henry Holt & Co., 29 W. 23d St., X. Y. 
 IX. Ginn & Heath, 9 Tremont PI., Boston. Ma. 
 X. Dr. Marcus E. Jones. Salt Lake City, Utah. 
 XI. James R. Osgood & Co., 211 Tremont street. 
 
 Boston, Mass. 
 
 XII. Houghton, Mifflin & Co.. 4 Park street, 
 Boston, Mass. 
 
 XIII. S. E. Cassincxtfc Co., 41 Arch St., Boston, Mass. 
 
 XIV. Orange Judd Companv, 245 Broadway, N. Y." 
 XV. G. H. Richmond, Northfield. Vt.
 
 Publishers' Addresses. 71 
 
 XVI. MacMillan & Co., 112 4th ave.. N. Y. 
 
 XVII. S. C. Griggs & Co. , 87 Wabash ave. , Chicago, 111 . 
 
 XVIII. J. B. Lippincott & Co., 715 Market street, 
 
 Philadelphia, Pa. 
 
 XIX. Industrial Publication Co., 176 Broadway, N. Y. 
 
 XX. John Wiley, 15 Astor place, New York city. 
 
 XXI. John B. Alden, 393 Pearl street, N. Y. 
 
 XXII. Lee & Shepard, 47 Franklin st., Boston. Mass. 
 
 XXIII. D. Lothrop & Co. , 32 Franklin st. , Boston. Mass. 
 
 XXIV. Phillips <fc Hunt (headquarters of C. L. S. C., 
 
 Pubs.), 805 Broadway, New York. 
 XXV. Little, Brown & Co., 254 Washington street, 
 
 Boston, Mass. 
 
 XXVI. Estes &. Lauriat, 303 Washington street, Bos- 
 ton, Mass. 
 
 XXVII. Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D. C. 
 XXVIII. Scribner & Welford, 745 Broadway, New York. 
 XXIX. Th. Nelson & Son, 42 Bleecker st,, N. Y. 
 XXX. E. A. Bates, Salem, Mass. 
 XXXI. Frank H. Lattin, Gaines, Orleans Co., N. Y. 
 XXXII. Henry W. Peck, New Haven, Ct. 
 
 As some may be bewildered by the great number 
 of books here named, we will mention a few that 
 seem to us especially adapted to the wants of the 
 majority of the members of the A. A. 
 
 /;/ Botany, if we could have only one book, we 
 would take Gray's Manual and Lessons; but Prof. 
 Wood gives fuller descriptions, and his " Class-book 
 of Botany "works in" very conveniently with Gray's. 
 Both these books lead rapidly to analysis and clas- 
 sification. 
 
 Youman's Lessons and Bessey's Botany lead rather 
 to personal observation, and to a plan of study more 
 in accord with modern methods in Biology. 
 
 " Wonders of Plant Life" shows many of the 
 beauties revealed by the microscope, and is fully il- 
 lustrated.
 
 72 Hand-Book. 
 
 In Entomology, we recommend for the first choice, 
 " Harris, on Insects injurious to Vegetation," as we 
 know of no better general work on insects; Pack- 
 ard's Guide, perhaps, comes next, and in some re- 
 spects, such as anatomical detail, is much fuller. It 
 is not quite so simple for the tyro. 
 
 Insect Lives, gives the life history of many of our 
 common Lepidoptera, with hints on the rearing of 
 larvae, etc., and has proved wonderfully stimulating 
 to many of the A. A. It is published by Robert 
 Clarke of Cincinnati, who has just completed the 
 publication of Jasper's magnificent work on the 
 Birds of North America. 
 
 Lubbock's book on Ants, is a fascinating record 
 of the observations and experiments of that distin- 
 guished naturalist. 
 
 In Geology, Dana's are the standard text-books. 
 Nothing can be better for beginners, however, than 
 Common Minerals and Rocks, with the accompany- 
 ing set of specimens. It is wonderfully cheap. 
 
 Every one should read at least one of Huxley's 
 books, and with whichever he begins, he is pretty 
 sure to get the others afterward. 
 
 Chas. Kingsley's "Town Geology" is popular and 
 valuable, and as it can be gotten for 15 cents, being 
 one of the famous " Humboldt Library," which has 
 done so much to make science popular in America, 
 there is no reason why ever}' one should not buy it, 
 as an experiment if nothing more. The same is 
 doubly true of Tyndall's " Forms of Water." 
 
 Prof. Winchell's three books, from the elegant 
 press of Griggs & Co., do not aim at systematic 
 teaching; they are not text-books: but they are . 
 thoroughly interesting and instructive. " Geologi-
 
 Notes. 73 
 
 cal Excursion is charming, and we confidently rec- 
 ommend them all for every Naturalist's library. 
 
 In Natural History, there is nothing for the 
 price, to compare with "Cecil's." For the little 
 folks, Four-footed Lovers; Door-yard Folks; Old 
 Ocean, are excellent, while for those a little older 
 we recommend Hooker. 
 
 Darwin's book on Worms, is even more valuable 
 as illustrating the accurate and patent methods of 
 work that made its author the greatest Naturalist of 
 his age, than for the wonderful facts it narrates. 4 
 
 If only one book, however, can be chosen from 
 the list, and you are too old for Hooker, try Huxley. 
 You will read ' Selborne' as a matter of course. 
 
 In Ornithology, price must guide you. The books 
 are all excellent. 
 
 In ^Zoology, for a general manual, get Tenney; for 
 pleasant reading, Wood; for guide to methods of 
 scientific work, Mivart, Huxley, or Hyatt. The 
 special works speak for themselves. 
 
 Among the miscellaneous books, you would de- 
 rive most pleasure and lasting benefit from " Para- 
 bles from Nature." Mr. Smiles' books illustrate his 
 favorite subject, * Self-help,' and show how much 
 young people can accomplish alone, if they will. 
 
 It will be noted that Appleton & Co. publish 
 books whose prices average about $2 or $3. They 
 are beautifully printed and bound, and it pays to 
 get them. 
 
 Ginn & Heath have done the public a great ser- 
 vice by their elegant series of cheap books. These 
 are cheap only in price, for they are thoroughly well 
 printed, on excellent paper, and richly illustrated.
 
 74 Hand- Book. 
 
 They are small, and in heavy paper covers. You 
 can well afford the entire series. 
 
 Fitzgerald & Co. bring the choicest works of the 
 greatest thinkers of Europe, within reach of the 
 poorest boy among us. Every chapter of the A. A. 
 should get the catalogue of the Humboldt Library, 
 and keep it for reference. We advise you to buy 
 finely bound books, it you can afford it, but if you 
 cannot, you will rejoice at this opportunity of get- 
 ting them in paper. 
 
 If any of you wish to take regular courses of 
 study together, you will do well to write to A. S. 
 Barnes & Co., and get some of Prof. Steele's " 14 
 weeks" series. This includes, besides the '-Zoology,' 
 "14 weeks in Geology, Physiology, Botany, Chem- 
 istry, Astronomy, and Physics." 
 
 Whenever you w-rite to any of these firms for 
 books* you should state that you are a member of 
 the Agassiz Association. 
 
 Doubtless very many books have been omitted 
 from our list that would have been included, had 
 they been brought to our knowledge, and we shall 
 esteem it a favor if our friends will, from time to 
 time, send us the names, prices, and Publishers' ad- 
 dresses of such books as may seem to them specially 
 worthy of recommendation. 
 
 MAGAZINES AND PAPKRS. 
 
 The Auk, is a quarterly journal of Ornithology, 
 published at $3.00 a year by Estes & Lauriat, Bos- 
 ton, Mass. Mr. J. A. Allen and Dr. Elliot Coues, 
 are on the editorial staff. Each number contains 
 about 100 pages, and, occasionally, colored plates.
 
 Magazines and Papers. 75 
 
 The American Naturalist, is a monthly devoted 
 to the Natural Sciences in their widest sense. It is 
 published by McCalla & Stavely, 257 Dock Street, 
 Philadelphia, Pa., at $4. It is rather scientific than 
 popular, but not so technical as to be ' hard read- 
 ing,' and numbers among its contributors many of 
 our most distinguished naturalists. 
 
 The Ornithologist and Oologist, is published month- 
 ly, at $i per year, by Frank B. Webster, Pawtucket, 
 R. I. It is well illustrated, wide awake, and not 
 beyond the comprehension of our young bird-lovers 
 and egg-hunters. 
 
 Science Record, S. E. Cassino c^ Co., 41 Arch 
 Street, Boston, Mass., is a monthly journal of Notes 
 and News in all departments of Science. It costs 
 only a dollar a year, is illustrated, handsomely print- 
 ed, and popular. 
 
 The Microscopical Bulletin, is a valuable little bi- 
 monthly paper, published at 25 cents a year, by 
 James W. Queen & Co., 924 Chestnut. Street, Phil- 
 adelphia. [" Bi-monthly" means once in two months, 
 not twice in one month.] 
 
 Science. Science Co., Cambridge, Mass. $5.00. 
 Best adapted to the wants of professional Scientists, 
 it contains also many articles of general interest, 
 popularly written. It is a weekly illustrated maga- 
 zine. 
 
 Nature. A weekly illustrated journal of Science. 
 MacMillan &: Co., Publishers, 112 4th Avenue, N. 
 Y. This is an English journal, and corresponds in 
 its leading features to "Science." It is perhaps not 
 quite so technical, and the price is $6 per annum. 
 "Nature," A Science," and "The American Natu-
 
 J6 Hand-Book. 
 
 ralist," stand in the front rank of Scientific period- 
 icals. 
 
 Popular Science News, is a i monthly, published 
 by the Popular Science News Co., at 19 Pearl-st, 
 Boston, Mass. ''The end and aim of 'Science 
 News,' is to furnish a cheap journal of reliable sci- 
 entific information." It is illustrated, and good. 
 Dr. Nichol's new book, "Whence, What, Where?" 
 is given as a premium to each new subscriber. 
 
 Forest and Stream, published weekly at $4.00 a 
 year, " is the recognized medium of entertainment, 
 instruction, and information between American 
 Sportsmen." It is a very large paper, and among its 
 regular departments are "Natural History," " Sea 
 and River Fishing," "The Kennel," "Rifle Shoot- 
 ing," and "Canoeing." 39 Park Row, N. Y. City. 
 
 Bulletin of Massachusetts Natural History, is a 
 monthly journal edited and published at Amherst, 
 Mass., by Prof. W. A. Stearns, author of "Bird- 
 life," the popular manual of Ornithology. It is spe- 
 cially devoted to the Natural History of Massachu- 
 setts, but contains much of general interest. It 
 costs only $i a year. 
 
 The Kansas City Review of Science and Industry. 
 ""This is a strictly popular magazine, perhaps better 
 adapted to family reading than any other scientific 
 journal in the country." It comprises original arti- 
 cles by the best writers, and selections from the best 
 periodicals of this country and Europe, upon Geol- 
 ogy, Mining, Archaeology, Meteorology, Biography, 
 etc. Monthly, 64 pp. octavo, $2.50 per year. Clubs 
 of four or more allowed a discount of 25 per cent. 
 Theodore S. Case, Kansas City, Mo. 
 
 The Naturalist's Journal, a monthly, for 50 cents
 
 Magazines and Papers. 77- 
 
 a year, is published by Mr. R. T. Taylor, Frankford, 
 Pa. It is an admirable paper, and represents the local 
 interests of the A. A. 
 
 The Young Naturalist, a 50 cent monthly, is pub- 
 lished by another of our enterprising members, in 
 Galesburgh, 111! The Editor, Mr. C. F. Gettemy, 
 modestly disclaims attempting to represent the A. A., 
 but his paper is, after all, a good representative of 
 the energy and enthusiasm of our Illinois Chapters. 
 
 The Amateur Naturalist, is published monthly, 
 for 30 cents a year, by still another of our young 
 friends, Mr. Elliston J. Perot, 5103 Main Street, 
 Germantown, Pa. It is an excellent paper, and has 
 our best wishes. 
 
 The Young Oologist, is published by Mr. Frank 
 H. Lattin, Gaines, Orleans Co., N. Y. It is a 
 bright paper, which gives in popular language, a 
 great amount of useful information about bird's- 
 eggs, nests, and collecting. 
 
 The Young Scientist, published at $i per year, by 
 the Industrial Publishing Co., 294 Broadway, N. Y., 
 contains among other things an exchange column, 
 and a column of notes and queries. 
 
 Random Notes is a bright little paper published 
 by Southwick & Jencks, Providence, R. I. See next 
 chapter. 
 
 ST. NICHOLAS, Union Square, N. Y. $3 a year. 
 This is the leading Magazine for young people. It 
 is replete with stories by the best authors, and pic- 
 tures by the best artists. It is the " Official Organ" 
 of the Agassiz Association.
 
 - 78 Hand- Book. 
 
 CHAPTER XVI. 
 
 WHERE TO GET SUPPLIES. 
 
 In response to often repeated inquiries, we pre- 
 sent a directory of leading and reliable dealers in 
 everything a Naturalist can need. In ordering sup- 
 plies, state that you are a member of the A. A. 
 
 All Naturalists Supplies, including books and 
 specimens, can be ordered of Prof. A. E. Foote, 
 1223 Belmont Ave., Philadelphia, Pa. He has a 
 large and valuable collection of Natural objects, ac- 
 curately labeled. Prof. Foote is very courteous, 
 and treats young members of the A. A. as patiently 
 and generously as men that send him thousand dol- 
 lar orders. Since our first edition, we have heard 
 good words of Prof. F. from many members. His 
 set of 100 minerals for $i, is a wonder of excellence 
 and cheapness. 
 
 Chemicals and Chemical Apparatus. Many of our 
 members are especially interested in Chemistry. 
 They will be glad to know that Bullock <S: Crenshaw, 
 528 Arch Street, Philadelphia, are manufacturers 
 and importers of both the chemicals and the appa- 
 ratus, suitable for Analytical, Technical and Exper- 
 imental use. You can get a descriptive priced cat- 
 alogue free on application. 
 
 Microscopes and Accessories. Perhaps we have 
 had more queries about microscopes than any other 
 one thing. As you can get a microscope at almost 
 any price from 30 cents to $1650.00, you should 
 send 10 cents to W. H. Walmsley & Co., 1016 Chest- . 
 nut Street, Phila., and get their illustrated catalogue.
 
 Where to get Supplies. 79 
 
 part first. Then with the advice of that firm, you 
 can select just what you want. 
 
 After you get your Microscope, you can find 
 nothing so good or so cheap to keep your slides in 
 as what is called " Pillsbury's Cabinet." It consists 
 of a finely polished cherry cabinet, containing twenty 
 boxes, grooved on the insides to receive twenty-five 
 slides each, and provided with a lock. One of these 
 cabinets holding 250 slides, can be gotten for only 
 $2,50, from Mi-lton Bradley & Co., Springfield, Mass. 
 Send for their illustrated circular. 
 
 Our young ornithologists want good shot-guns. 
 The Parker Top-Action, breech-loader, has been 
 recommended to us by one who ought to know, as 
 one of the very best. At the International Gun 
 Trials, held at Bergen Point, N. J,, April 3, 1884, 
 " It won the admiration of all by its fine shooting 
 qualities. Parker Brothers, Makers, Meriden, Conn. 
 
 Taxidermy and Entomological and Oological Sup- 
 plies. After you have your birds, you may want 
 them mounted; and after you have' your insects, you 
 need to pin them into cases. Ellis & Webster, Paw- 
 tucket, R. I., are reliable dealers, and will either pre- 
 pare your specimens for you, or put you in the way 
 of doing it yourself. Send for their catalogue. 
 
 Southwick 6 Jencks keep an excellent Natural 
 History store in Providence, R. I. Birdskins, eggs, 
 minerals, shells, supplies for Ornithologists, Taxider- 
 mists, Oologists and Botanists, including publica- 
 tions. Send for specimen number of their monthly, 
 " Random Notes on Natural History," at 50 cents 
 per year, and for circulars of catalogues. 
 
 Philosophical Apparatus, such as Electrical ma- 
 chines, Air-pumps, Magnets, Magic Lanterns, etc.,
 
 8o Hand-Book. 
 
 Chemical apparatus of all sorts, and sets of Geo- 
 logical instruments for analysis, may be gotten of 
 the best quality from J. & H. Berge, 191 Greenwich 
 Street, New York City. Send for catalogue. 
 
 Frank H. Lattin, Gaines, Orleans Co., New York, 
 is a young man who, by his unaided efforts, has 
 built up a large and increasing trade in Birds' Eggs, 
 Shells, Minerals, Scientific books, and Naturalists * 
 supplies in general. His prices for eggs seem to be 
 lower than any we have seen. Price-lists and circu- 
 lars sent on application. 
 
 The Young Scientists, is the name of a firm of 
 which Mr. C. F. Gettemy, one of our A. A. mem- 
 bers, is an officer. They are prepared to fill orders 
 for Taxidermists' and Naturalists' supplies. Ad- 
 dress: Galesburg, Illinois. 
 
 For Entomological Supplies, address the Natural- 
 ists' Supply Co., Box 469, Philadelphia, Pa. They 
 carry a large stock of Nets, Pins, Cork, Setting- 
 blocks, Killing-jars, and everything pertaining to 
 Entomology. Also a full line of Egg-drills, Blow- 
 pipes, and Ornithological supplies. Price lists may 
 be had on application. 
 
 Printing. Every Naturalist finds it convenient 
 now and then, to have a little printing done. It may 
 be only labels for his specimens, or exchange lists 
 of his duplicates; or he may wish to print a mono- 
 graph on some subject of investigation, or perhaps 
 he has written a book. Chapters of A. A. often 
 wish to see their By-laws, etc., in type. To all such 
 we recommend as thoroughly reliable, the printers 
 of this Hand-book, The Sun Printing Company, 
 Pittsfield, Mass.
 
 Alphabetical List of Chapters. 
 
 81 
 
 CHAPTER XVII. 
 
 ALPHABETICAL LIST OF CHAPTERS CLASSIFIED BY 
 STATES. 
 
 [In the middle column, the first figures show the number of active, 
 and the following figures, of honorary members. Under these figures, 
 the initials show the special departments of study. The abbrevia- 
 tions are 
 
 A. Anatomy. 
 B. Botany. 
 Bi. Biology. 
 C. Conchology. 
 
 Ch. Chemistry. 
 E. Entomology. 
 G. Geology. 
 M . Mineralogy. 
 Z. Zoology. 
 
 Mic. Microscopy. 
 Or. Ornithology. 
 O. Oology. 
 Phys. Physiology. 
 
 The P esident's name is above the Secretai-y's. When only one is 
 given it is usually that of the Secretary.] 
 
 CALIFORNIA. 
 
 No. of Name and 
 Chap. Address. 
 
 621. Garden Grove, A. 
 
 608. Los Gatos, A. 
 
 Santa Clara Co. E.M.Or. 
 131. Nevada City, A. 
 41. Oakland, A~ 
 
 1305 Broadway '. 
 102. Oakland, B. 
 421. Petaluma, A. 
 
 179. Sacramento, A. 
 
 166. St. Helena, A. 
 Napa City. 
 49. San Francisco, B. 
 
 1626 Tark st. Miss M. T. Vandenburgh. 
 
 296. San Francisco, D. 8 Sewall Dolliver. 
 
 Miss Bertha L. Rowell. 
 
 No. of 
 Mem. 
 
 Pres. and Sec. 
 
 3-1 
 E. 
 
 Mrs. M. E. Head. 
 Horace C. Head. 
 
 I.M.Or. 
 
 Geo. Francis. 
 E. L. Menefee. 
 
 20 
 
 Miss Maude Smith. 
 
 7 
 5 
 
 Henry C. Converse. 
 Geo. S. Meredith. 
 
 12-1 
 
 15-5 
 B., E. 
 
 Jonathan Green. 
 Miss Cora Derby. 
 Newton Tyburn. 
 Chas. Mier. 
 
 6 
 B., G. 
 5 
 
 P. S. King. 
 Mrs. E. H. King,
 
 Hand-Book. 
 
 No. of Name and 
 Chap. Address. 
 
 No of 
 Mem. 
 
 Pres. and Sec. 
 
 321. 
 
 San Francisco, E. 
 
 6 
 
 Augustus B. Tavlor. 
 
 
 1330 Suiter *t. 
 
 
 Win. F. Breeze. 
 
 333. 
 
 San Francisco, F. 
 
 12 
 
 Miss Estelle Miller. 
 
 
 1416 GktcTwnento 
 
 st. Phys. 
 
 Mi<s Bertha L. Rowell. 
 
 527. 
 
 San Francisco, G. 
 
 ' 6 
 
 
 
 633 7>//r *f. 
 
 
 Norman Sinclair. 
 
 335. 
 
 San Jose, A. 
 
 8 
 
 F. R. Gamier, Ifo* isl. 
 
 59. 
 
 Santa Cruz. A. 
 
 2 
 
 Mi- C. W. Baldwin. 
 
 
 
 B. 
 
 
 564. 
 
 Santa Rosa, A. 
 
 6-1 
 
 Louis M. Kin*:-. 
 
 LockborW. E.Mic.M. 
 
 Wilbur M. Swett. 
 
 318. 
 
 Sweetland, A. 
 
 7 
 
 >Iiss K. M. Fowler. 
 
 COLORADO. 
 
 584. 
 
 Col. Springs. A. 
 
 4 
 
 E. B. McMorris. B. 
 
 122. 
 
 Denver. A. 
 
 6 
 
 
 
 476 Cl.'mi'.' - 
 
 ,7. 
 
 Miss Cora Moore. 
 
 262. 
 
 Denver. B. 
 
 4 
 
 Mrs. E. M. Roberts. 
 
 
 fax 2272. 
 
 
 Ernest L. Roberts. 
 
 413. 
 
 Denver, C. 
 
 7-2 
 
 W. J. Denchfield. 
 
 
 Hoyt<k Drl<i n'>*t*. 
 
 E.O.Or. 
 
 H. G. Smith, Jr. 
 
 425. 
 
 Greely, A. 
 
 7 
 
 Louis L. Haynes. 
 
 311. 
 
 San Juan, A. 
 
 5 
 
 Mrs. L. J. Brewster. 
 
 CONNECTICUT. 
 
 624. 
 
 Abington. A. 
 
 13 
 
 Miss Marv R. Allen. 
 
 
 
 Z. 
 
 Miss J. E. L. Dennis. 
 
 61 s. 
 
 Central Village. A 
 
 40-4 
 
 X. W. Sanborn, M. D. 
 
 
 
 
 Mi-s Minnie French. 
 
 100. 
 
 Hartford, B. 
 
 25-1 
 
 Miss Annie K. Bunce. 
 
 
 55 Pi:,*i><''-t */. 
 
 E., Or. 
 
 Francis Parsons. 
 
 274. 
 
 Hartford, D. 
 
 5 
 
 C. H. Dav. 
 
 
 2 F<ir,i>''i'f/t<>i, ,11 
 
 E. 
 
 W. R. Rbyce. 
 
 40S. 
 
 Hartford. E. 
 
 12 
 
 
 
 11J4 F.tnutHttt, 
 
 n */'. 
 
 W. H. St. John. 
 
 64:1. 
 
 Higffannm. A. 
 
 5 
 
 Mrs. Walter K Gay. 
 
 
 E 
 
 .. ().. M. 
 
 Miss Estella E. Clark.
 
 Alphabetical List of Chapters. 
 
 No. of Name and 
 Chap. Address. 
 
 354. Litchfield, A. 
 101. Middletown, A. 
 
 Box 1414. 
 462. New Haven, A. 
 
 Skinner ScJiool. 
 171. New London, A. 
 
 No. of 
 Mem. 
 
 Pres. and Sec. 
 4 L. B. Woodruff. 
 10-8 John A. Dodd. 
 
 Lewis G. Westgate. 
 13-11 H. R. Northrup. 
 E. M. J. H. Haydon. 
 8-7 W. D. Young. 
 R. L. Crump" 
 616. Norwich, A. 22-1 A. N. Burke. 
 
 Box 1086. B. O. Or. Z. A. L. Aiken. 
 237. Plantsville, A. 7 H. C. Shepard. 
 
 257. Plantsville, B. 9-2 G. M. Smith. 
 
 E. B. Or. C. H. Banning. 
 
 165. Plymouth, A. 4-4 Joseph Langdon. 
 
 O. Or. W. G. Talmadge. 
 
 590. Pomfret Centre, A. 4 Miss Emily S. Warren. 
 
 B. E. Mrs. S. O. Marsh. 
 7 Rev. A. P. Chapman. 
 
 H. W. Chapman. 
 16-12 Willard Baker. 
 B. E. M. Miss C. S. Roberts. 
 268. Thompsonville, A. 32 Miss Alice Briscoe. 
 
 Box- 11. 
 637. Putnam. A. 
 
 522. Sharon. A. 
 
 325. Torrington, A. 
 123. Waterbury, A. 
 
 Lock box 756. 
 415. Waterbury, C. 
 
 52 Grove St. 
 
 Or. M. 
 
 6 J. F. Alldis. 
 
 2 Edward Lampson. 
 
 Herbert N. Johnson . 
 2 W. C. Carter. 
 
 DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. 
 
 109. Washington, C. 17-6 G. F. Weld. 
 
 1600 13th st. , N. W. A. B. E. Ch. Alonzo H. Stewart. 
 
 460. Washington. D. 7 Vernon Dorsey. 
 
 3038 Pst., W. M. Z. F. A. Reynolds. 
 
 275. Washington, E. 4 G. Wilson Beatty 
 
 204 4th *t., S. E. E. Alonzo H. Stewart. 
 
 448. Washington, G. 18-3 
 
 1727 Fst.. N. W. B. E. M. Miss Isabelle McFarland.
 
 Hand-book. 
 
 No. of 
 Chap. 
 
 Name and 
 Address. 
 
 No. of 
 Mem. 
 
 Pres. and Sec. 
 
 400. Fargo, A. 
 
 DAKOTA TERRITORY. 
 
 14-1 Nath. Stephenson. 
 E. Frank Brown. 
 
 DELAWARE. 
 
 J. H. Rollo. 
 
 152. Wilmington, A. 1 
 
 700 King st. Min. 
 439. Wilmington, B. 9-1 Malcolm MacLear. 
 
 417 Washington st. E.M. Percy C. Pyle. 
 562. Wilmington, C. 8 A. E. Keigwin. 
 
 FLORIDA. 
 
 411. Blackwater, A. 
 
 567. Fort Meade, A. 
 
 (fbrmeriy Sigourney, la.) 
 22. Grahamville, A. 2 
 
 3-8 Miss Alice A. Chandler. 
 B. E. Miss Kittie C. Roberts. 
 5 Carl M. Keck. 
 Irving Keck. 
 Miss Edna Pearl Lisk. 
 
 ILLINOIS. 
 
 10. Aurora, A. 
 
 3 
 
 Miss Lilian L. Trask. 
 
 108. Chicago, D. 
 Hodge's block, 22d st. 
 153. Chicago, E. 
 15325^^. E. 
 
 4 
 O.Or. 
 .5-3 
 G. Or. 
 
 D. A. French. 
 Ch. W. Sprague. 
 Grafton Parker. 
 E. W. Wentworth. 
 
 229. Chicago, F. 
 2546 S. Dearborn 
 
 7-5 
 . All. 
 
 Graham Davis. 
 E. R. Lamed. 
 
 313. Chicago, H. 
 51 8. Sheldon. 
 
 13 
 
 O. J. Steiner. 
 
 342. Chicago, I. 
 1212 Wabash av. 
 383. Chicago, L. 
 1236 Wabash av. 
 
 4 
 6 
 
 E. Shepherd. 
 W. B. Jansen. 
 
 419. Chicago, M. 
 107 Sedgwick st. 
 523. Chicago, O. 
 334 Monroe st. 
 
 84-6 
 G. 
 5-6 
 /M. Z. 
 
 Geo. Lynne. 
 Geo. Lynne. 
 A. W. Glover. 
 A. L. Baxter.
 
 Alphabetical List of Chapters. 
 
 No. of Name and 
 
 No of 
 
 Chap. Address. 
 
 Mem. P 8 - aud Sec - 
 
 531. Chicago, P. 
 
 6 
 
 3011 Midi, av. 
 
 Hany Hirsch. 
 
 541. Chicago, Q. 
 
 4 0. E. Taft. 
 
 3014 Midi. m. 
 
 M. 
 
 583. Chicago, R. 
 
 8 W. E. Hale. 
 
 96 Drexel .' 
 
 Mic. G. E. Hale. 
 
 588. Chicago, S. 
 
 7-2 W. G. Jen-ems, Jr. 
 
 41~ Aldine sq. 
 
 W. A. Wilkins. 
 
 596. Chicago, T. 
 
 6 W. L. Dawson. 
 
 50 8. Ada *t. 
 
 B. W. Peck. 
 
 603. Chicago, U. 
 
 3 
 
 3120 Cahimet ar. E. C. F. McLean. 
 
 649. Chicago, V. 
 
 6-3 Harry Crawford. 
 
 242 Bu&el at. 
 
 M. E. Harvey Murray. 
 
 12. Forreston, A. 
 
 5 C. M. Winston. 
 
 
 Pare Winston. 
 
 25. Freeport, A. 
 
 5 Miss Anne Jenkins. 
 
 388. Galesburgh, A. 
 
 10-3 E. C. Lambert. 
 
 
 B. E. G. W. S. Nash. 
 
 550. Galesburgh, B. 
 
 9-1 Ernest E. Calkins. 
 
 208 N. Academy sf. 
 
 E. G. Or. C. F. Gettemy. 
 
 466. Golconda, A. 
 
 13 Oscar Rauchfuss. 
 
 
 Robert Galbraith. 
 
 365. Hyde Park. A. 
 
 24-4 Sidney H. West. 
 
 Box 292. 
 
 Or. E. W. Potter. 
 
 95. Joliet, A. 
 
 16 Miss Addie W. Smith. 
 
 430. Kinmundy, A. 
 
 5 Bertie Squire. 
 
 105. Limerick," A. 
 
 13 John W. Jordan. 
 
 509. Macomb, A. 
 
 10 Miss G. VanHoesen. 
 
 
 Or. Miss Nellie Tunniciiff. 
 
 525. Monmouth, A. 
 
 4 J. A. Dose. 
 
 
 B. Phys. D. E. Waid. 
 
 641. Normal Park. A. 
 
 Edward Colegrove. 
 
 B*:r 173. 
 
 Or. M. Miss Charlotte Putnam.
 
 86 
 
 Hand-book. 
 
 No. of Name and 
 
 Xo of 
 
 
 Chap. Address. 
 
 Mem. 
 
 Pres. and sec. 
 
 287. Ottawa, A. 
 
 --4 
 
 
 
 B. E. 
 
 Ray Hoffman. 
 
 1.56. Peoria, A. 
 
 12 
 
 Edgar Eldridge. 
 
 104 P<(. ,tc. 
 
 
 Tobey Van Buskirk. 
 
 184. Peoria, B. 
 
 6 
 
 
 1142 N. Atl'i.m* 
 
 it. 
 
 Eddie Smith. 
 
 320. Peoria, C. 
 
 6 
 
 
 311 .V. Eil-.rfM.i, 
 
 
 J. A. Smith. 
 
 648. Peoria, D. 
 
 4 
 
 Frank Cobleigh. 
 
 302 Mo** */. 
 
 Or. 
 
 H. J. Woodward. 
 
 346. Princeton, A. 
 
 4 
 
 R. C. Trimble. 
 
 
 M. 0. 
 
 W. K. Trimble. 
 
 499. Princeton, C. 
 
 6 
 
 Harry Bailey. 
 
 515. Rogers Park, A. 
 
 4 
 
 Mrs. E. S. Gridlev. 
 
 
 E.M. 
 
 C. B. Coxe. 
 
 393. S. Evanston. A. 
 
 17 
 
 C. B. Atwell. 
 
 
 B. Bi. 
 
 Miss C. B. Adams. 
 
 65. Wright's Grove, A 
 
 4-2 
 
 Mrs. Brown. 
 
 4802 L >v///, a 
 
 
 W. B. Greenleaf. 
 
 
 INDIANA 
 
 
 606. Evansville, A. 
 
 5-2 
 
 Cvrus K. Drew. 
 
 421 Chandler <ic. E. 
 
 G.Or.Z. 
 
 Clarence D. Gil ckrist. 
 
 358. Green Castle, A. 
 
 1 
 
 Joseph H. Earp. 
 
 420. Hanover, A. 
 
 5 
 
 Box 1. 
 
 528. Huntingsburg, A. 
 
 7 
 
 C. H. Behrens. 
 Hugh C. Rothert. 
 
 145. Indianapolis. A. 
 
 11 
 
 
 265 E. X. Y. st 
 
 
 F. Bildenmeister. 
 
 265. Indianapolis, B. 
 
 7 
 
 
 156 A*h ft. 
 
 
 Miss Cornelia McKay. 
 
 558. Indianapolis, C. 
 
 12 
 
 Henry Dithmer. 
 
 303 T. J. *t. 
 
 E. 
 
 Russell Robinson. 
 
 574. Indianapolis. D. 
 
 8 
 
 Tom Moore. 
 
 332 Ain. *t. 
 
 
 John Schramm.
 
 Alphabetical List of Chapters. 
 
 No. of Name and 
 Chap. Address. 
 
 No. of 
 .Mem. 
 
 I'res. and Sec. 
 
 195. Kentland, A. 
 
 8 - 
 
 Mrs. C. P. Boswell. 
 
 
 
 Miss Birdie Blye. 
 
 103. La Porte, A. 
 
 7 
 
 Frank Eliel. 
 
 4'26. La Porte, B. 
 
 4 
 
 Leo B. Austin. 
 
 491. Rochester, A. 
 
 11-1 
 
 Miss Tina Smith. 
 
 lio.t- S. 
 
 A. 
 
 Miss Nellie Scull. 
 
 636. Rockville. A. 
 
 5 
 
 Edwin C. Thurston. 
 
 
 M. 
 
 Miss Lilla Moore. 
 
 431. Terre Haute, A. 
 
 17-2 
 
 Ed. Thurston. 
 
 629 Mulberry st. 
 
 E. 
 
 B. M. Condit. 
 
 633. Terre Haute, B. 
 
 7-1 
 
 Arthur McKeene. 
 
 622 Clwdruit *t. 
 
 
 O. C. Mewhinney. 
 
 
 IOWA. 
 
 
 118. Bristow, A. 
 
 1 
 
 J. B. Playter, Mic. 
 
 64. Cedar Rapids, A. 
 
 14-21 
 
 R. C. Greene. 
 
 M ai\ <k oth ftt. E 
 
 M. G. 
 
 E. P. Boyntou. 
 
 330. Cedar Rapids, B. 
 
 12-25 
 
 E. C. Clark. 
 
 
 E. G. 
 
 C. R. Eastman. 
 
 551. Clinton, A. 
 
 6 
 
 Miss Mabel E. Loveder. 
 
 Bx 486. 
 
 E. 
 
 Henry Towle. 
 
 158. Davenport, A. 
 
 15 
 
 E. K. Putnam. 
 
 632. Davenport, B. 
 
 6-2 
 
 
 Grixwold Colkye. 
 
 
 Miss Sarah G. Foote. 
 
 285. Dubuque, A. 
 
 8 
 
 Alvin S. Wheeler. 
 
 20. Fail-field, A. 
 
 12-23 
 
 Miss Carrie A. Lamson. 
 
 Box 213. 
 
 E. G. 
 
 Miss Sue Blair. 
 
 514. Iowa City, A. 
 
 5-1 
 
 H. F. Wickham. 
 
 
 E. Or. 
 
 W. M. Clute. 
 
 327. Muscatine, A. 
 
 4 
 
 Glenn A. Gordon. 
 
 578. Osceola, A. 
 
 9 
 
 Mrs. L. E. Banta. 
 
 Box 744. 
 
 
 Harlan Richards. 
 
 540. Oskaloosa, B. 
 
 20-8 
 
 A. C. Scott. 
 
 Box 682. 
 
 
 O. D. McMains. 
 
 15. Ottumwa, A. 
 
 21-35 
 
 Miss Belle Foster. 
 
 
 
 W. R, Lighten.
 
 Hand-book. 
 
 No. of Name and 
 Chap. Address. 
 
 546. Palo, A. 
 
 No. of 
 Mem. 
 
 10 
 
 Pres. and Sec. 
 Miller Barnhill. 
 
 56. 
 
 Pine Croft. 
 Greene. 
 
 6 
 
 Miss Lida Price. 
 Miss Lavenia Price. 
 
 233. 
 
 547. 
 
 238. 
 
 Sydney. A. 
 B 
 Shellsburg, A. 
 Winterset, A. 
 
 4 
 M. Z. 
 
 25 
 3 
 M. 
 
 Mrs. W. H. Trites. 
 Mr. Geo. Trites. 
 O. H. Thompson. 
 Mott Wheelock. 
 Harry Wallace. 
 
 
 
 KANSAS. 
 
 
 225. 
 
 Burlington, A. 
 O. 
 
 4 
 Or. E. 
 
 A. M. Hendee. 
 P. M. Floyd. 
 
 304. 
 
 Emporia, A. 
 Bo* 1186. 
 
 10 
 
 L. O. Perley. 
 
 292. 
 519. 
 
 Independence, A. 
 Lawrence, A. 
 
 18 
 5 
 
 W. H. Plank. 
 F. H. Bowersock. 
 
 597. 
 
 Lawrence, B. 
 Box 89. E. 
 
 10-4 
 0. M. 
 
 Pliny Allen. 
 Albert Garret. 
 
 142. 
 
 Leavenworth, A. 
 327 Delaware *t. 
 
 14 
 
 W. L. Burrell. 
 
 526. 
 
 Leavenworth, B. 
 616 Walnut st. B. 
 
 9-1 
 O. G. 
 
 W. P. Brown. 
 H. P. Johnson. 
 
 270. 
 
 Severance. A. 
 
 9 
 
 W. S. Franklin. 
 
 301. 
 
 Topeka, A. 
 218 Polk st. 
 
 5 
 
 C. A. Dai ley. 
 
 308. 
 
 Wellington. A. 
 Bite 804 
 
 5 
 
 J. T. Nixon. 
 
 KENTUCKY. 
 
 207. 
 
 Bowling Green, A. 
 
 3-1 
 G. 
 
 J. W. Durkee. 
 Miss Jessie Glenn. 
 
 133. 
 
 Erlanger. A. 
 
 5 
 
 Alex. Bedinger. 
 L. M. Bedinger. 
 
 
 
 MAINE. 
 
 
 332. 
 
 Augusta. A. 
 "f !<>.i- 231. 
 
 UMB 
 
 Mrs. H. A. Hall. 
 G. C 1 . Libby.
 
 Alphabetical List of Chapters. 
 
 No. of Name and 
 Mem. Address. 
 
 Mem' Pres.andSec. 
 
 443. Brunswick, A. 
 
 6 E. B. Young. 
 
 263. Gardner, A. 
 
 14 A. C. Brown. 
 
 484. Oldtown, A. 
 
 6 Miss Mabel Waldron. 
 
 651. Portland, A. 
 
 4 P. E. Perry. 
 
 717 Congress st. 
 
 E. M. Or. W. H. Dow. 
 
 444. Rockland, A. 11 
 
 B. K H. 
 
 468. Saco, C. 18 
 
 Care L. F. Brdhury. 
 442. Waldoboro. A. 5 
 
 138. Warren. A. 
 
 B. G. 
 
 465. Waterville, A. 8-3 
 
 E. O. Or. 
 
 J. P. Cilley. Jr. 
 Miss Grace T. Cilley. 
 Edward Goshen. 
 Miss Genie Preble. 
 Allen R, Benner E". &G. 
 L. J. Hills. 
 A. M. Hilt. 
 C. B. Wilson. 
 C. W. Spencer. 
 
 MARYLAND. 
 
 635. Annapolis, A. 
 
 St. John's College. E. 
 
 7. Baltimore, A. 
 
 73. Baltimore, B. 
 
 76 Md. av. 
 
 368. Baltimore, D. 
 
 223 Md. w. 
 387. Baltimore, E. 
 
 2 Denmead st. Or. B. 
 480. Baltimore, F. 
 
 222 McCulLoli st. 
 614, Baltimore, H. 
 
 211 Pre*8tnum st. 
 598. St. George's, A. 
 
 Refttertown- P. 0. 
 
 6-1 Harry C. Hopkins. 
 
 O. M. A. H. Hopkins. 
 
 1 J. H. Hughes, 238 Mad.av. 
 
 6-12 Miss H. C. Allnutt. 
 
 Miss Susie H. Keith. 
 6 
 
 Miss Fannie Wyatt. 
 
 15-2 Miss Rebecca F. Clark. 
 
 Phys. Helen C. Coale. 
 
 12-1 Miss M. Reinhardt. 
 
 E. Miss R. Jones. 
 
 8-2 J. B. Rollins. 
 
 B. M. R. S. Hart. 
 
 17-2 C. H. T. Lowndes. 
 
 B. Mrs. Marj r B. Kinear. 
 
 149. Abington, A. 
 
 MASSACHUSETTS. 
 
 12-1 E. W. Blake. 
 
 C. A. Cushman.
 
 9 
 
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 No. of Name and 
 
 Xo of 
 
 Chap. Address. 
 
 Mem. 1>res - Mld * ec - 
 
 352. Amherst, A. 
 
 18-2 W. B. Greenough. 
 
 E. 
 
 B. Or. Miss E. S. Field. 
 
 379. Andover, B. 
 
 5 
 
 348. Ashland, A. 
 
 20-7 
 
 AV-174. 
 
 W. G. Whittemore. 
 
 24. Boston, A. 
 
 6-1 A. P. Stone. 
 
 52 HW//,//,, rf. 
 
 B. M. F. A. North. 
 
 162. Boston, B. 
 
 2 A. C. Chamberlain. 
 
 99 Re-ff,',: St. 
 
 Z. 
 
 367. Boston, C. 
 
 4 Miss Alice M. Gay. 
 
 47 C.JH.'.,,;1 ,,. 
 
 Miss Annie Darling. 
 
 496. Boston. E. 
 
 6 
 
 (Xneyst., WardM. G. A. Orrok. 
 
 593. Brookline, A. 
 
 6 
 
 E. B. 
 
 Or. M. Geo. L. Brigg*. 
 
 224. Canibridgeport, B. 
 
 5 F. L. Hammond. 
 
 390. Chester, A. 
 
 20 Rev. A. E. Todd. 
 
 
 Wm. Stanton. 
 
 629. Chicopee. A. 
 
 24 R. E. Bemis. 
 
 B.i- 200. B. M. Z. Miss E. L. Mitchell. 
 
 658. Chicopee, B. 
 
 10 A. C. Towne. 
 
 
 Miss E. B. Bullens. 
 
 218. Clinton, A. 
 
 10 Gerald Alley. 
 
 516. Dighton, A. 
 
 16 W. A. Reade. 
 
 429. Dorchester, A. 
 
 10-2 W. H. Tenuey, Jr. 
 
 15 t, ol< i ni}) it .<<{. 
 
 Miss Miriam Badlam. 
 
 261. E. Boston, A. 
 
 10 Miss Emma Bates. 
 
 118 Lexington *t. 
 
 Z. Miss Ruth A. Odiorne. 
 
 351. E. Boston, B. 
 
 25 
 
 203 Saratoga st. 
 
 W. D. Clark. 
 
 143. E. Bridgewater, A. 
 
 5 G. S. Young. 
 
 545. Fall River. A. 
 
 8 F. H. Young. 
 
 Bo* 275. 
 
 O. K. Hawes. 
 
 48. Fitchburgh, A. 
 
 4 J. W. Richmond. 
 B. E. A. B. Simonds.
 
 Alphabetical List of Chapters. 
 
 No. of Name and 
 
 No. of 
 
 
 Chap. Addivss. 
 
 Mem. 
 
 Pros, and >>ec. 
 
 173. 
 
 Fitchburg, B. 
 
 13-3 
 
 F. J. Perkins. 
 
 
 
 
 Miss Mary Garfield. 
 
 201. 
 
 Fitchburg, C. 
 
 12-2 
 
 Thornton M. Ware. 
 
 
 
 
 Miss Ellen A. Snow. B 
 
 450. 
 
 Fitchburg, D. 
 
 13 
 
 G. V. Upton. 
 
 
 Bo.r 1335. 
 
 Z. 
 
 G. F. Whittemore. 
 
 642. 
 
 Florence, A. 
 
 23 
 
 Prof. G. A. Hoadly. 
 
 
 Box 22. 
 
 Or. }I. 
 
 A. T. Bliss. 
 
 282. 
 
 Greenfield, A. 
 
 6 
 
 Prof. C. H. K. Sanderson. 
 
 579. 
 
 Hadley, A. 
 
 6 
 
 Miss Julia Dwight. 
 
 
 Box 229. 
 
 G. Or. 
 
 Miss Mary A. Cook. 
 
 458. 
 
 Haverhill, A. 
 
 2 
 
 F. H. Chase. 
 
 
 2 Arrh *t 
 
 
 
 217. 
 
 Hyde Park, A. 
 
 14 
 
 
 
 Bo* 405. . 
 
 
 
 124. 
 
 Jamaica Plain, A. 
 
 4 
 
 R. W. Wood, Jr. 
 
 
 Glen Road. G. 
 
 Or. M. 
 
 G. W. Wheelwright, Jr. 
 
 1. 
 
 Lenox, A. 
 
 10-6 
 
 Oakleigh Thorne. 
 
 
 B.r 178. 
 
 220* 
 
 H. H. Ballard. 
 
 210. 
 
 Lowell, B. 
 
 7 
 
 
 
 Bo.r 155. 
 
 
 G. A. Whitmore. 
 
 586. 
 
 Lowell, C. 
 
 5 
 
 C. S. Hutchinson. 
 
 
 127 yexiiiith st. 
 
 M. Z. 
 
 H. C. Rogers. 
 
 297. 
 
 Maiden, A. 
 
 6 
 
 
 /fa/- 131 Faulkner. 
 
 C. C. Beale. 
 
 111. 
 
 Milford. A. 
 
 5 
 
 C. F. Hicks. 
 
 
 Box 643. 
 
 
 
 72. 
 
 Need ham, A. 
 
 7 
 
 Gilbert Maun. 
 
 281. 
 
 Newburyport, B. 
 
 6 
 
 R. E. Curtis. 
 
 411. 
 
 New Salem, A. 
 
 1 
 
 D. F. Carpenter. 
 
 481. 
 
 Newton, A. 
 
 12-10 
 
 E. L. Douglass. 
 
 
 
 Z. 
 
 F. M. Elms. 
 
 47. 
 
 Newton Centre, A. 
 
 4 
 
 John Bond. 
 
 
 
 
 Philip Britchett. 
 
 *Corresponding members.
 
 Hand-book. 
 
 No. of Name and No. of 
 Chap. Address. Mem. 
 
 256. Newton Up. Falls, A. 7-3 
 B. M. Or. 
 355. X. Adams, A. 13-3 
 B. G. Z. 
 
 Pre*. and pee. 
 
 .1. F. Hopkins. 
 Mis^ Josie M. Hopkins. 
 Miss E. H. Brewer. 
 Miss Louise Radio. 
 
 17. Northampton. A. 
 
 3-4 
 
 M. Allie Maynard. 
 Mis* Florence Maynard 
 
 435. Northampton. B. 
 Bo.r 756. 
 
 4 
 
 H. L. Billiard. 
 
 170. N. Brookfield. A. 
 Box 310. 
 
 13 
 
 E. P. Jenks. 
 H. A. Cooke. 
 
 92. N. Cambridge. A. 
 
 4 
 E. 
 
 H. A. Seasrrave. 
 F. E. Keay. 
 
 492. Peru, A. 
 
 6 
 B. E. 
 
 C'. B. Cone. 
 Miss Hyla A. Stowell. 
 
 60. Pigeon Cove. A. 
 
 11-4 
 11 
 
 C. C. Fears. 
 C. H. Andrew^. 
 
 183. Salem, A. 
 4 Cherry *t. 
 438. Somerville. A. 
 
 5 
 
 6 
 
 M. E. Burrill. 
 Harrv G. Sear-. 
 
 112. S. Boston. A. 
 37 G-<tte* *t. 
 
 11 
 N. H. 
 
 W. 6. Hersey. 
 H. E. Sawyer. 
 
 212. S. Boston. B. 4-4 
 729 E. 4t/> *t. M. O. Or. 
 580. S. Boston, C. 5-3 
 777 /?> E. M. 
 617. S. Willmmstown, A. 27 
 Greylort Int. B. M. Or. 
 575. Spencer, A. 14-5 
 
 G. H. Chitteuden. 
 H. C. Clapp. 
 P. C. Sheldon. 
 F. M. Spaulding. 
 X. P. Goodell. 
 R. C. Campbell. 
 G. A. Drurv. 
 Miss May B. Ladd. 
 
 500. Stockbridge. A. 
 219. Taunton, B. 
 E. 
 
 
 18-5 
 Or. M. 
 
 Miss Bessie Chaffee. 
 Miss Edith Loverinir. 
 A. C. Bent. 
 
 66. Waltham. A. 
 Box 1339. 
 
 7 
 
 H. Hancock. 
 
 269. Wareham. A. 
 Ilif.il /W/W. 
 
 11-1 
 M. 
 
 Miss Alice M. Guernsey. 
 G. W. Dempsey.
 
 Alphabetical List of Chapters. 
 
 No. of Name and 
 Mem. Address. 
 
 No. of 
 Mem. 
 
 Pres. and Sec. 
 
 338. Wareham, B. 
 
 6-3 
 
 Arthur Hammond. 
 
 281. Webster, A. 
 
 4 
 
 R. G. Leavitt. 
 
 464. Westboro, A. 
 
 30 
 
 Miss Kitty A. Gage. 
 
 189. W. Medford, A. 
 
 2 
 
 Miss Isabel G. Dame. 
 
 Box 197. 
 
 B. E. 
 
 Miss Gertrude Dame. 
 
 MICHIC4AN. 
 
 384. Ann Arbor, A. 
 
 6 
 
 D. H. Browne. 
 
 328. Buchanan, A. 
 
 4 
 
 Willie Talbot. 
 
 14. Detroit, A. 
 
 16 
 
 A. S. Wiley. 
 
 
 E. 
 
 Miss Bertha Wiley. 
 
 120. Detroit, B. 
 
 8 
 
 
 62 Miami ai\ 
 
 
 Miss Ella M. Leggett. 
 
 157. Detroit, C. 
 
 8-7 
 
 George W. Kelley. 
 
 26 Henry st. 
 
 
 E. M. Raynale. 
 
 652. Dowagiac, A. 
 
 11-4 
 
 V. M. Tuthill. 
 
 
 E. 
 
 E. F. Perry. 
 
 50. Flint, A. 
 
 1 
 
 
 Box 1425. 
 
 
 Miss H. A. Lovell. 
 
 71. Grand Rapids, A 
 
 4 
 
 Willie G. Allyn. 
 
 571. Grand Rapids, B 
 
 15 
 
 Geo. C. Hollister. 
 
 Old Nat. Bank. 
 
 Or. M. E. 
 
 Louis Carpenter. 
 
 135. Jackson, A. 
 
 17-4 
 
 E. D. Warner. 
 
 228 Main st. 
 
 
 J. O. D. Bennett. 
 
 164. Jackson, B. 
 
 17 
 
 
 Cor. Main & 
 
 ith sts. 
 
 Mrs. Norah Gridley. 
 
 96. Lansing, A. 
 
 6 
 
 Rodman H. Cary. 
 
 
 M. 
 
 James P. Edmonds. 
 
 569. Ludington, A. 
 
 15 
 
 Ch. T. Sawyer. 
 
 626. Petoskey, A. 
 
 10-2 
 
 Mrs. Watson Snyder* 
 
 
 O. Or. 
 
 W. B. Lawton. 
 
 607. Union City, A. 
 
 9 
 
 Miss Minnie Drum. 
 
 
 
 Carl Spencer. 
 
 237. Ypsilanti, B. 
 
 2-1 
 
 Louis B. Hardy, E. G.
 
 94 
 
 No. of 
 Chap- 
 
 Hand-book. 
 
 Name and 
 Address. 
 
 No. of 
 Mem. 
 
 26. Detroit City. A 
 542. Faribault. A. 
 
 ft. Mry* I 
 178. Farmingtou. A. 
 117. Minneapolis, A. 
 
 1816 Fourth < 
 194. Minneapolis. B. 
 
 1016 Wrvf,-;*,, 
 386. Pine City. A. 
 
 121. St. Paul. A. 
 
 139. St. Paul, B 
 
 5Dftri<l*o;, 
 
 428. St. Paul. C. 
 
 r, Laura ws, 
 369. St. Paul, D. 
 
 Box 5. 
 
 565. Waseca. A. 
 128. 
 
 573. Moss Point. A. 
 544. Oxford. A. 
 
 601. West Point, A. 
 
 Pres. and Sec. 
 MINNESOTA. 
 
 5 C. C. Dix. 
 
 10 Miss Eva Whipple. 
 
 II. Miss E. M. Blvtue. 
 
 8 H. X. Win- ' 
 
 20 
 
 c. N. Miss Jennie Hughos. 
 
 ". Burtie W. McCracken. 
 
 4 E. L. Stephan. 
 B. E. Miss L. M. Stephan. 
 14-1 Mrs. J. DeGraw. 
 Frank "Ramaley. 
 6 
 
 W,. Sidney E. Farwell. 
 
 6 
 
 P. C'. Allen. 
 6 
 
 Fred Spauldinir. 
 
 6 E. A. Everett. 
 J. F. Murphy. 
 
 MISSISSIPPI. 
 
 12 Miss Bessie Burden. 
 6-2 Mrs. M. L. Hutson. 
 
 C'. Woodward Hutson. 
 16-5 Judge B. F. Owen. 
 E. Z. R. does. 
 
 276. Kansas City. A. 
 
 114 w.m */ 
 
 634. Macon. A. 
 
 Box 876. 
 33. St. Louis, A. 
 
 1818 in/ A/I. * 
 
 F. M. Pea*-. 
 5 Maj. A. C. Longden. 
 G. Z. Lieut. C. W. Kimball. 
 
 4 Wm. S. Love. 
 M. Miss Maud M. Love.
 
 Alphabetical List of Chapters. 95 
 
 No. of Name and No. of p., ptj 
 
 Chap. Address. Mem. 
 
 46. St. Louis. B. 2 H. B. Cmcknell. 
 
 1233 N. 30M t. C. F. Haanel. 
 
 202. St. Louis, C. 12 
 
 1014 C<i* ac. Miss L. M. Follet. 
 
 638. St. Louis, D. 7 W. C. Watts. 
 
 3857 Wash. ,w. M. G. E. Frank M. Davis. 
 366. Webster Groves, A. 39 
 
 Box 113. Edwin R. Allen. 
 
 NEW HAMPSHIRE. 
 
 587. Concord, A. 4-2 Rev. H. P. Lamprey. 
 
 So.v42l. G. B. Miss Lunette E. Lamprey. 
 
 440. Keene, A. 6-1 H. S. Foster. 
 
 Sox 307. E. F. H. Foster. 
 
 391. Meredith, A. 10-1 H. M. Robinson. 
 
 N. Snnborntoti. B. Ch. F. Robinson. 
 
 21. Nashua. A. 13-27 J. W. Thurber. 
 
 Box 757. E. Bi. Or. M. F. W. Greeley. 
 
 125. Nashua, C. 4 Charles Howard. 
 
 181. Nashua, E. 1 
 
 M. Geo. M. Tinkei. 
 
 294. Swanzey, A. 4 
 
 Marlboro Depot. Miss L. A. Whitcomb. 
 
 NEW JERSEY. 
 
 518. Bergen Point, A. 5 
 
 Box 69. Miss Alida Conover. 
 
 372. Beverley, A. 7-4 H. B. Carpenter. 
 
 Box 88. E. Miss Alice T. Carpenter. 
 
 373. Beverley, B. . 6-4 J. P. Street. 
 
 Bo.rU. P. S. Clarkson. 
 
 437. Burlington, A. 4 Natalie McNeal. 
 
 560. Cambridge, A. 10 Miss M. M. McGonigal. 
 
 Riverside, box 19. E. C. M. G. Morrison Taylor. 
 
 113. Camden, A. 6 
 
 307 N. M *t. Miss Mabel Adams.
 
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 No. of Name and 
 Mem. Address. 
 
 No. of 
 Mem. 
 
 Pres. and sec. 
 
 548. Crawford, A. 
 
 6-1 
 
 Miss Katie Ells. 
 
 Box 106. 
 
 
 Miss Maud A. Cox. 
 
 461. East Orange, A. 
 
 12-4 
 
 Miss Sarah R. Adams. 
 
 Brick Church P. 
 
 0. 
 
 Miss Stella L. Hook. 
 
 605. East Orange, B. 
 
 5-2 
 
 F. H Chandler. 
 
 f^roi-esteml. 
 
 E. M. 
 
 Alfred E. Horan. 
 
 570. Hackensack, A. 
 
 4 
 
 A. J. Voorhis. 
 
 O. B. M. 
 
 Z. Or. 
 
 Philander Betts. 
 
 417 Keyport, A. 
 
 7 
 
 Win. Van Geison. 
 
 
 B. Z. 
 
 Phelps Cherry. 
 
 349. Linden, A. 
 
 6 
 
 E. H. Schram. 
 
 640. Milville, A. 
 
 9 
 
 Herbert Westwood. 
 
 
 Or. 
 
 Carder Hazard. 
 
 639. Montclair, A. 
 
 6-6 
 
 Marion Bedell. 
 
 .R>xl47. 
 
 B. Z. 
 
 Miss Lucy B. Parsons. 
 
 74. Moorestown, A. 
 
 7 
 
 
 Box 115. 
 
 
 Miss Anna F. Thomas. 
 
 337. Newark, A. 
 
 9-5 
 
 Fred. W. Neiman. 
 
 164 Mulberry st. Or. 
 
 O. E. 
 
 Chas, Wegle. 
 
 403. Newark, B. 
 
 2-3 
 
 Frank Lynch. 
 
 687 Broad st. 
 
 Or. 
 
 Chas. Barrows. 
 
 572. Newark, C. 
 
 10 
 
 Max Farrand. 
 
 611 High st. E. M 
 
 . O.B. 
 
 L. M. Passmore. 
 
 249. Orange, A. 
 
 
 Geo. M. Smith. 
 
 423. Perth Amboy, A. 
 
 30-5 
 
 Miss Bessie Yoconi. 
 
 
 Z. B. 
 
 Miss Bertha Mitchell. 
 
 398. Roseville, A. 
 
 20 
 
 Sara Darrach. 
 
 13. Trenton. A. 
 
 8-1 
 
 Miss Anna B. Newbold. 
 
 154 W. State st, 
 
 B. 
 
 Miss M. S. Mcllvaine. 
 
 497. Trenton. B. 
 
 4-3 
 
 Harry Archer. 
 
 Box 424. A. O. 
 
 E.M. 
 
 Joseph Archer. 
 
 543 Washington, A. 
 
 5 
 
 Mrs. Wm. M. Baird. 
 
 Lock box 6. 
 
 
 Dr. Wm. M. Baird.
 
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 97 
 
 No. oi 
 Chap. 
 
 f Name and 
 Address. 
 
 No. of 
 Mem. 
 
 Pres. and Sec. 
 
 NEW YORK. 
 
 187. 
 
 Albanj 7 , A. 
 
 6-2 
 
 F. P. Huested. 
 
 
 3 LaFayette at. 
 
 E. 
 
 John P. Gnvit. 
 
 288. 
 
 Albany, B. 
 
 7 
 
 
 
 10 Hawk t. 
 
 
 Win. R. Nichols. 
 
 457. 
 
 Albany, C. 
 
 7-8 
 
 J. P. Rvan. 
 
 
 240 Clinton- ar. 
 
 
 W. L. Martin. 
 
 226. 
 
 Alfred Centre, A. 
 
 16 
 
 C. A. Davis. 
 
 114. 
 
 Auburn, A. 
 
 8 
 
 
 
 7 Franklin st. 
 
 
 Miss Mamie L. Kimberly. 
 
 336. 
 
 Auburn, B. 
 
 12 
 
 J. L. Hickok. 
 
 
 13 AiireUu* av. 
 
 
 E. L. Hickok. 
 
 476. 
 
 Aurora, A. 
 
 27 
 
 E. L. French. 
 
 559. 
 
 Bath, A. 
 
 4-2 
 
 Friend Miller. 
 
 
 Steuben. Co. 
 
 Z. E. 
 
 Percy C. Meserve. 
 
 645. 
 
 Bath, B. 
 
 6-3 
 
 W. H. Chamberlain. 
 
 
 M. E. 
 
 Or. B. 
 
 Chas. L. Kingsley. 
 
 295. 
 
 Boohville, A. 
 
 3 
 
 S. W. Nelson. 
 
 
 
 G. 
 
 F. C. Johnson. 
 
 19. 
 
 Brooklyn, A. 
 
 7 
 
 
 
 171 Clinton st. 
 
 
 Miss Lucy Tupper. 
 
 82. 
 
 Brooklyn, B. 
 
 6-2 
 
 James M. Patten. 
 
 
 11 Garden pi. 
 
 Z. M. 
 
 Chas. B. Davenport. 
 
 364. 
 
 Brooklyn, D. 
 
 3-1 
 
 Harry Ager. 
 
 
 6 St. James place. 
 
 M. B. 
 
 J. K Drake. 
 
 374. 
 
 Brooklyn, E. 
 
 11 
 
 F. K Cheshire. 
 
 
 136 1th st. Z. B 
 
 . G. C. 
 
 Frank E. Cocks. 
 
 382. 
 
 Brooklyn, F. 
 135 Henri/ st. 
 
 8-9 
 G. E. 
 
 Miss Alice Van Ingen. 
 Dudley A. Van Ingen. 
 
 422. 
 
 Brooklyn, G. 
 
 9 
 
 John Walsh. 
 
 
 98 2d plate. 
 
 B. Z. 
 
 R. C. A very, Jr. 
 
 609. 
 
 Brooklyn, H. 
 
 10 
 
 Miss Alice Van Ingeu. 
 
 
 122 Reinxen st. 
 
 
 Philip Van Ingen. 
 
 91. 
 
 Buffalo, A. 
 
 22-8 
 
 H. A. Stahl. 
 
 
 960 Wash st. B. 
 
 E. Or. 
 
 Miss C. Freeman.
 
 Hand-Book. 
 
 No. of Name and 
 Chap. Address. 
 
 132. Buffalo, B. 
 117 Uth *t. Arch. 
 
 No of 
 Mem. 
 
 14-2 
 G. E. 
 
 Pres. and Bee. 
 
 A. W. Thaver. 
 Chas. W. Dobbins. 
 
 168. Buffalo, C. 
 3 Cottage at. B. 
 
 5 
 Phys. 
 
 Miss Eva Smith. 
 Miss Jennie K. Doyle. 
 
 228. Buffalo, D. 
 103 TremontpL 
 
 9 
 
 Percy Scharff. 
 
 317. Buffalo, E. 
 523 Main st. 
 
 10 
 
 W. L. Koester. 
 
 493. Buffalo, F. 
 105 14-th st. B. 
 
 18-1 
 M. E. 
 
 A. C. Brown. 
 Miss Clara A. Manser. 
 
 529. Buffalo, H. 
 
 44 No. Pearl st. 
 
 7 
 
 Miss Margaret Evans. 
 
 585. Buffalo, I. 
 Box 185. 
 334. Chappaqua, A. 
 447. Chittenango. A. 
 
 11-1 
 
 4 
 
 8-4 
 
 Jos. C. Pfeiffer. 
 F. M. Moody. 
 M. Wright Barnum. 
 John Flaherty. 
 Chas. A. Jenkins. 
 
 137. Clyde, A. 
 478. Comstocks, A. 
 
 6 
 
 4 
 
 Geo. S. Morley, O. 
 Miss L. B. Culver. 
 Geo. C. Baker. 
 
 479. Durhamville, A. 
 
 5 
 
 Arthur Fox. 
 
 146. Ellington, A. 
 513. Far Rockaway. A. 
 Long I*la iid. 
 150. Flushing, A. 
 Djng Island. 
 604. Fredonia, A. 
 
 20 
 
 8 
 
 2-1 
 
 6 
 B.E. 
 
 W. H. Van Allen. 
 
 L. I. Carleton. 
 Mrs. F. R. L. Heaton. 
 Miss F. M. L. Heaton. 
 Miss Mary E. Bemis. 
 Mrs. Jennie N. Curtis. 
 
 254. Fulton, A. 
 
 3-1 
 C. 
 
 C. Bennett. 
 H. C. Howe. 
 
 294. Garden City, A. 
 Long Island. 
 186. Geneva, A. 
 
 4 
 39 
 
 Dr. J. S. Hawley. 
 Win. R. Kitchen. 
 Lansing Stebbins. 
 Miss Nellie A. Wilson.
 
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 99 
 
 No. of Name and No. of 
 Chap. Address. Mem. 
 594. Granville, A. 7-2 
 Uox72N. Granville. G.O.B.Z.E. 
 
 Pres. and Sec. 
 
 E. L. Smith. 
 James E. Rice. 
 
 502. Herkimer, A. 
 
 8-1 
 Or. 
 
 Peter F. Piper. 
 Geo. W. Nellis, Jr. 
 
 172. Hoosac, A. 
 Box 53. 
 625. Hudson, A. 
 M, 
 
 89. Hull's Mills, A. 
 
 DutcJiess Co. 
 
 12 
 
 4-1 
 G. Or. 
 
 7 
 
 Miss F. G. Langdon. 
 H. W. George. 
 Robt, E. Terry. 
 
 Miss Alice Brower. 
 
 37. Kingsboro, A. 
 Fulton Co. 
 
 12 
 
 M. W. Thomas. 
 
 106. Lebanon Springs, A 
 85. Leroy, A. 
 
 79. Lockport, A. 
 563. Lyons, A. 
 Box 428. G 
 
 7 
 
 13 
 M. 
 140 
 6-2 
 . O.W. 
 
 Mrs. M. K. Harrison. 
 W. H. Harrison. 
 
 Miss C. A. Talmage. 
 Geo. W. Pound. 
 Charlie Ennis. 
 Leroy Ostrander. 
 
 620. Manlius, A. 
 St. John's. 
 
 10-4 
 
 Robt. W. Bowman. 
 Geo. C. Beebe. 
 
 623. Manlius, B. 
 St. John's. 
 
 9 
 
 C. H. Cuvler. 
 
 556. Moravia, A. 
 
 6 
 
 Chas. L. Atwood. 
 
 144. Mt. Veruon, A. 12 
 
 503. Nassau, A. 6 
 
 252. Nanuet, A. 3-2 
 
 Box 19. Or. M. G. 
 
 67. New York, A. 4 
 
 12 Lexington av. 
 87. New York, B. 18-2 
 
 244 Madison st. 
 116. New York, D. 5-2 
 
 223 E. 18th st. Mic. B. 
 
 F. S. Curtis. 
 
 Aubrey Tyson. 
 
 Miss Emily P. Sherman. 
 
 C. Hasbrouck Wells. 
 
 Oscar D. Dike. 
 
 James Robb. 
 A. C. Rudischhauser. 
 Edward B. Miller. 
 Albert Tuska. 
 Gustav R. Tuska.
 
 Hand-book. 
 
 Xo. of Name and 
 
 No. of 
 
 
 
 Chap. Address. 
 
 Mem. 
 
 Pres. and sec. 
 
 161. Xew York. E. 
 
 4 
 
 
 224 ir. 34tf/ *'. 
 
 
 C. R. Burke. 
 
 191. Xew York. F. 
 
 o 
 
 H. L. Mitchell. 
 
 51 E. Mf/t xf. 
 
 
 Buckuor Van Amrinuv. 
 
 234. New York, G. 
 
 3 
 
 R. Moeller. 
 
 335 ir. 27/7/ xf. 
 
 G. E. 
 
 F. W. RODS. 
 
 312. New York, H. 
 
 2 
 
 Edward H' 
 
 249 H'. 26tf< *t. 
 
 
 Geo. Wildey. 
 
 407. New York, J. 
 
 
 
 120 Broadway. 
 
 
 A. C. Week>. 
 
 414. New York, K. 
 
 6 
 
 
 139 ir. 49/// 8t. 
 
 
 Heinrieh Rio. 
 
 477. New York. M. 
 
 .-> 
 
 
 200 W 57/76 st. 
 
 
 A. C. P. Opdyke. 
 
 490. New York. N. 
 
 10 
 
 Stephen D. Sammis. 
 
 670 E. 142-'/ st. E 
 
 . Phys. 
 
 Stephen D. Sammis. 
 
 592. Xew York, P. 
 
 " 4 
 
 H. A. Elsberc. 
 
 1101 Le.rtngto/1 nr. E. 
 
 C. Elsberg. 
 
 630. New York. Q. 
 
 4 
 
 J. C. Rowe. 
 
 106 Varicicrt. 
 
 
 W. T. Demarest. 
 
 595. Oneonta, A. 
 
 4 
 
 Miss N. S. Van Woret. 
 
 
 B.As. 
 
 Miss Jessie E. Jenks. 
 
 433. Oswego, A. 
 
 7 
 
 W. A. Burr 
 
 504. Osweso. B. 
 
 28 
 
 
 108 TF. 111, *t. 
 
 
 Miss Alice T. Weed. 
 
 316. Palmyra, A. 
 
 8 
 
 Jarvis Merick. 
 
 243. Peekskill, B. 
 
 7 
 
 Austin D. Mabie. 
 
 808. Peekskill, C. 
 
 7-8 
 
 Gilbert H. Anderson. 
 
 Box 465. 
 
 M. E. 
 
 Geo. E. Briggs. 
 
 506. Port Henry, A. 
 
 5 
 
 John Witherbee. 
 
 
 M. Or. 
 
 John Thomas. 
 
 2. Potsdam. A. 
 
 6 
 
 Miss Annie Usher. 
 
 491. Rochester. A. 
 
 11-1 
 
 Miss Tina Smith. 
 
 Bo.r $. 
 
 A. 
 
 Misx Xollie Scull.
 
 Alphabetical List of Chapters. 
 
 No. of Name aud 
 Chap. Address. 
 
 No. of 
 Mem. 
 
 Pres. and Sec. 
 
 454. 
 
 Rochester, B. 
 
 10 
 
 Miss Cornelia M. Ely. 
 
 
 263 N. St. Paul *t. 
 
 E. Or. 
 
 
 577. 
 
 Rochester. C. 
 
 12-1 
 
 Miss Bessie Kingman. 
 
 
 no.r 604. 
 
 Or. 
 
 Charley Boswell. 
 
 579; 
 
 Roxburv, A. 
 
 10 
 
 Arthur Boiiton. 
 
 
 Bta?85. 
 
 E. 
 
 Henry G. Cartwright. 
 
 409. 
 
 Sag Harbor, A. 
 Lock box 44. 
 
 12-5. 
 B. 
 
 Ivon C. Byram. 
 Cornelius R. Sleight. 
 
 580. 
 
 St. Jolmland, A. 
 
 4-1 
 
 John H. Hennessey. 
 
 
 Suffolk Co. 
 
 E. 
 
 Wm. H. White. 
 
 396. 
 
 Springville, A. 
 
 8 
 
 E. Everett Stanbro. 
 
 286. 
 
 Stockport, A. 
 
 13-5 
 
 Albert E. Heard. 
 
 
 
 
 Willard J. Fisher. 
 
 412. 
 
 Syracuse, C. 
 
 8 
 
 B. Burrett Nash. 
 
 215. 
 
 Tioga Centre, A. 
 
 4 
 
 A. R. Latimer. 
 
 
 " TJie Oaks." 
 
 B.E. 
 
 Miss Angie Latimer. 
 
 507. 
 
 Tonawanda, A. 
 
 5 
 
 Miss Maud Hittel. 
 
 
 
 
 Miss Jennie Faulkner. 
 
 533. 
 
 Trov. A. 
 
 7 
 
 Eugene A. Darling. 
 
 
 52 th st. 
 
 
 Robert Cluett, Jr. 
 
 232. 
 
 Utica, A, 
 
 45-1 
 
 C. Baker. 
 
 
 11 Co art st. E. B. 
 
 M. C. 
 
 Miss Frances E. Newland. 
 
 622. 
 
 Utica, B. 
 
 5 
 
 Wm. C. White. 
 
 
 52 Spring st. 
 
 G. Z. 
 
 Benj. C. George. 
 
 51. 
 
 Utopia, A. 
 
 9-2 
 
 Robt. E. Kenyon. 
 
 
 
 B. 
 
 S. Oila Willard. 
 
 299. 
 
 Watertown, A. 
 
 5 
 
 
 
 Care Hon. A. W. 
 
 Cln-k. 
 
 Nicoll Ludlow. 
 
 272 
 
 Westtown, A. 
 
 7 
 
 Lloyd Fisher. 
 
 
 
 
 W. Evans. 
 
 659. 
 
 Williamsville, A. 
 
 6 
 
 N. S. Hopkins. 
 
 
 Erie Co. 
 
 
 H. E. Heir. 
 
 NEW MEXICO. 
 
 483. Albuquerque, A. 12-5 E. C. Hall. 
 
 Box 91. G. C. Z. B. M. Miss M. E. Whitcomb.
 
 Hand-book. 
 
 No. of Name and 
 Chap. Address. 
 
 306. Belmont. A. 
 
 No. of 
 Mem. 
 
 Pres. and Sec. 
 
 NEVADA. 
 
 30 C. L. Deady. 
 
 NORTH CAROLINA. 
 
 30. Newberne. A. 
 ('n>e Geo, 
 
 16 
 
 :f- ('. Mrs. E. C. Gaskins. 
 
 6-4 AVm. J. Battle. 
 B. E. Miss C'lara J. Martin. 
 OHIO, 
 
 14 Miss Xellie A. Prentice. 
 Miss May H. Prentice 
 
 5 Mivs Fannie Rathbone. 
 485. Brooklyn Village. A. 32-2 W. P. Cope. 
 
 B. E. Miss Helen E. Barnard. 
 
 6 R. Kopheudorfer. 
 Mi- Ethel Gillis. 
 
 3 Wm. H. Crane 
 E. Gaylord Mile-. 
 8 Alphonse Heuck. 
 
 J. A. Giebel. 
 6 
 
 535. Chapel Hill. A. 
 
 185. Ashtabula. A. 
 
 310. Belpre. A. 
 485. Brooklyn ^ 
 
 323. Bryan. A 
 302. Cincinnati, A. 
 
 561. Cincinnati, B. 
 
 21 Olii<> (if 
 147. Cleveland. A. 
 
 768 #;>//>,. v* 
 
 589. Cleveland, B. 
 
 501 FranJMn 
 307. Columbus. A. 
 
 135 P,-irl-*1. 
 361. Columbus. B. 
 196. Dayton, A. 
 463. Dayton, B. 
 
 233 C'VIHII'H I'i'i 
 
 553. Defiance, A. 
 
 Lock ///>./ 234. 
 128. Eaton. A. 
 
 566. Elmore. A. 
 Ji".r 100. 
 
 F. Kendall. 
 90 A. J. Marvin. 
 
 E. Mi>< Josie Granni>. 
 
 E. G. Rice. 
 s Cha-. G. Smith. 
 24 Mi Abbie L. Dyer. 
 6 E. H. Faurer. 
 .las. H. Jones. 
 9-2 Emmet Slouirh. 
 
 Emmett B. Fisher. 
 4-1 G. E. Reusmaii. 
 E W. E. Loy. 
 11 Fred. W.Jaeger. 
 G. H. Rvmer>.
 
 Alphabetical List of Chapters. 
 
 103 
 
 No. of Name and 
 Chap. Address. 
 
 631. Fremont, A. 
 Box 327. 
 
 No. of 
 Mem. 
 
 10-3 
 Or. M. 
 
 Pres. and Sec. 
 
 D. S. Gessner. 
 V. D. Butman. 
 
 371. 
 
 Granville, A. 
 
 6 
 
 Miss Ida M. Saunders. 
 
 445. 
 
 Hamilton. A. 
 Box 198. 
 
 10 
 
 Rev. E. W. Abbey. 
 E. M. Traber. 
 
 154. 
 537. 
 
 Jefferson. A. 
 A*htabnla Co. 
 Mansfield, A. 
 
 78 W. Blnnn) .v/, 
 
 11 
 E. 
 
 Miss Clara L. Northway. 
 D. J. W. Craig. 
 E. Wilkinson, Jr. 
 
 655. 
 
 New Lynne. A. 
 
 7 
 
 G. O. Beede. 
 W. H. Cook. 
 
 650. 
 
 Sanduskv, A. 
 418 FfankKn *i 
 
 7-3 
 
 Fred Marshall. 
 John Youngs. 
 
 160. 
 
 Toledo. A. 
 409 Ontario f. 
 
 12 
 G. Z. B. 
 
 Clarence C. McKecknie. 
 Miss Katherine Scott. 
 
 360. 
 
 Urbana, A. 
 
 Lock Ijn.v 857. 
 
 9-2 
 
 Jno. C. Moses. 
 Wm. V. Moses. 
 
 581. 
 
 Urbana. B. 
 Drawer 3. 
 
 7-2 
 
 Murray Allison. 
 Samuel Stone. 
 
 612, 
 
 Urbana. C. 
 
 13 
 
 E. M. S. Houston. 
 
 129. 
 
 Zanesville, A. 
 
 6 
 
 Miss Lulu Lillibridge. 
 
 
 
 OREGON 
 
 
 340. 
 
 Portland. B. 
 395 4tf/ .s-/. 
 
 15-3 
 
 B. 
 
 Miss Lixxie Ley. 
 H. W. Cardwell. 
 
 PENNSYLVANIA. 
 
 277. 
 
 Altoona. A. 
 (P/vrf.) Hn.r 384. 
 
 10-5 
 
 Geo. Piper. 
 W. C. Boult. 
 
 378. 
 
 Ambler, A. 
 
 48-2 
 M. 
 
 W. Warren Funk. 
 Miss Jessie P. Smith. 
 
 455. 
 
 Bedford. A. 
 
 1 
 
 W. C. Langdmi, Jr. 
 
 11. 
 
 Berwyu. A. 
 
 Cli-xter Co. 
 
 7-1 
 
 J. F. Glosser. 
 Miss Carrie H. Glosser. 
 
 246. 
 
 Bethlehem. A. 
 
 14-2 
 
 Harry L. Walters. 
 
 7(X;. Or. E. B. M. Harry Wilbur.
 
 104 
 
 Hand-book. 
 
 No. of Name and 
 
 Xo. of 
 
 
 Chap. Address. 
 
 Mem. 
 
 l'i'r>. and Sec. 
 
 599. Bethlehem. B. 
 
 4-1 
 
 Herman S. Borhek. 
 
 Kn. t - 401. Or. M 
 
 . B. C. 
 
 Eric Doolittle. 
 
 300. Brvn Mawr, A. 
 
 12 
 
 
 * Rnwnmnt. 
 
 Or. B. 
 
 Miss Mary R. Garrett. 
 
 289. Cambria Station, A. 
 
 6-4 
 
 Mrs. S. L. Oberholt/cr. 
 
 
 Or. C. 
 
 Ellis P. Oberholtzer. 
 
 2oo. Chester, A. 
 
 ~> 
 
 Frank R. Gilbert. 
 
 136. Columbia, A. 
 
 23 
 
 Ewin-r Mittiin. 
 
 
 
 Alex. R. Craig. 
 
 190. Duncan non, A. 
 
 12 
 
 Miss Annie J. Jackson. 
 
 279. Eastou. A. 
 
 4-1 
 
 W. Fred Keller. 
 
 131% Ferry at. 
 
 G. B. 
 
 Augustus A. Tyler. 
 
 3. Frankford, A. 
 
 76 
 
 John Shallcross. 
 
 4701 Laperst. (Phila.) 
 
 E. M. 
 
 Robert T. Taylor. 
 
 326. Freeland. A. 
 
 11 
 
 Sam). C'askey. 
 
 200. Germantowu, B. 
 
 2:5-19 
 
 Joseph Head. 
 
 133 Prirr *f. 
 
 G. Z. 
 
 Franklin Baclie. 
 
 ") S 2. Germantown, C. 
 
 3-1 
 
 Miss Zuell Preston. 
 
 127 W. Penn. at. A. 
 
 Phys. 
 
 Mis. Ada M. Wheeler. 
 
 489. Gettysburg. A. 
 
 2-1 
 
 H. A. Stewart. M. Z. E. 
 
 482. Buckingham, A. 
 
 18 
 
 J. Willis Atkinson. 
 
 Holieonff. 
 
 
 Miss Elizabeth Lloyd. 
 
 472. Hazletou, A. 
 
 4-2 
 
 J. Edward Waaser. 
 
 L"Zi rut <'. 
 
 G. E. 
 
 Thos. F. McXair. 
 
 314. Lancaster, A. 
 
 5-a 
 
 Theo. B. Appel. 
 
 322 TK James st. 
 
 E.Ch. 
 
 Edw. R. Heitshu. 
 
 397. Mansfield Valley, A, 
 
 . 3-1 
 
 J. L. Prestley, G. 
 
 434. Meadville, A. 
 
 9-3 
 
 Miss Harriet Reitze. 
 
 Box 39. 
 
 B.E. 
 
 Miss Laurena Streit. 
 
 .->6s Meadville, B. 
 
 8 
 
 C. F. Weber. 
 
 Star 29. Or. 
 
 M. E. 
 
 Frank L. Armstrong. 
 
 260. Mercer. A. 
 
 4 
 
 Mrx. H. M. Magoffin. 
 
 240. New Mil ford. A. 
 
 1 
 
 W. D. Ainey. 
 
 169. Norristown, A. 
 
 40-3 
 
 A. D. Eisenhower. 
 
 E. 
 
 B. M. 
 
 Wm. White.
 
 Alphabetical List of Chapters. 
 
 105 
 
 No. of Name and No. of 
 Mem. Address. Mem. 
 
 Pres. and Sec. 
 
 36. Philadelphia, B. 
 
 8-1 
 
 Ed. R. Graham. 
 
 1015 Vine st, 
 
 
 H. Taylor Rogers. 
 
 36. Philadelphia, C. 
 
 7 
 
 
 1926 N. llt/i st. 
 
 
 Miss Eleanor J. Crew. 
 
 58. Philadelphia, D. 
 
 6-1 
 
 Milton J. Rosenau. 
 
 1314 FrnnkUn st. 
 
 E. 
 
 Joseph McFarland. 
 
 140. Philadelphia, E. 
 
 
 
 5103 Germantown a 
 
 V. 
 
 Elliston J. Perot. 
 
 126. Philadelphia, F. 
 
 1 
 
 
 2014 Ridge av. 
 
 M. 
 
 Raymond P. Kaign. 
 
 197. Philadelphia, G. 
 
 5 
 
 
 Floitlioir/t. 
 
 
 B. Sliser. 
 
 198. Philadelphia, H 
 
 6 
 
 
 2016 Arch st. 
 
 
 W. R. Nichols. 
 
 242. Philadelphia, I. 
 
 4 
 
 Albert Hill. 
 
 1127 J//. Vu'non sf. M.B. 
 
 J. Frank Stevens. 
 
 353. Philadelphia, K. 
 
 8-3 
 
 Henry Kiersted. 
 
 VV& Park 0,9. 
 
 
 Wm. Yerker. 
 
 385. Philadelphia, L. 
 
 8 
 
 
 1723 N. 22d &t. 
 
 
 C. R. Woodruff. 
 
 394. Philadelphia, M. 
 
 4 
 
 
 1823 Vine st. 
 
 
 Isaac Ford. 
 
 459. Philadelphia, N. 
 
 4 
 
 
 1520 Wilmington st. 
 
 
 Harry Colby. 
 
 501. Philadelphia, O. 
 
 
 
 625 N. I5t?i st. 
 
 
 Mrs. E. P. McCormick. 
 
 539. Philadelphia, West, P. 
 
 23 
 
 Robt. R, Truitt. 
 
 3406 Hamilton st. 
 
 
 Chas. M. List. 
 
 554. Philadelphia. Q. 
 
 9 
 
 C. D. Harris. 
 
 2229 Ml. Vernon st. 
 
 
 J. Edgar McKee. 
 
 556. Philadelphia, R. 
 
 6-2 
 
 Edw. J. Wheelock. 
 
 2206 Green st. 
 
 
 Paul T. Brown. 
 
 557. Philadelphia, S. 
 
 7 
 
 Wm. Walter. 
 
 1704 Pine st. E 
 
 . z. 
 
 Miss Bessie P. Pearsall. 
 
 619. Philadelphia, T. 
 
 5-1 
 
 Jas. A. Brown. 
 
 520 N. 21st st. 
 
 B. 
 
 Jas. McMichael.
 
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 No. of Name and No. of 
 
 Chap. Address. Mem. 
 
 644. Philadelphia, U. 4 
 
 470 N. 1th #. 
 
 27. Pittsburgh, A. 2 
 
 5th ar., Wait End. E. Phys. 
 
 273. Pittsburgh, B. :',<) 
 
 2Qt?< and .?/>//</// */*. 
 278. Pittsburgh, East. C. 4 
 298. Pittsburgh, D. 10 
 
 23d arid Liberty */*. 
 498. Pittsburgh, E. 3-1 
 
 23d d Liberty. M. G. 
 258. Reading, A. 25-17 
 
 Bawthmrne. 
 266. St. Clair. A. 30-54 
 
 532. Sewickley. A. 14-2 
 
 Box 41. 
 
 206. State College. A. 5-1 
 
 E. 3. O. 
 
 591. Tioga, A. 17 
 
 Box 255. B. M. 
 
 141. Titusville, A. 5 
 
 B. O. 
 
 199. Wellsboro, A. 11 
 
 231. Wiconisco, A. 6 
 
 RHODE ISL 
 
 188. Newport, A. 4 
 
 15 Purl; xt. 
 362. Newport, B. 
 
 Pres. and See. 
 
 4 
 15 AyrfHilttt. Or. 
 
 (515. Newport, C. 6 
 
 15 Park st. E. 
 
 653. Providence. C. > 4-4 
 65 Mr. .< E. O. M. G. 
 
 182. Warren. A. 5-2 
 
 Mrs. E. M. Ickes. 
 Martin Knabe, Jr. 
 Mrs. Rachel H. Mellon. 
 Miss Mary McM. Jones. 
 
 F. K. Gearing. 
 J. F. McCune. 
 
 E. H. Henderson. 
 Chas. A. Creesran. 
 Wm. H. Searight. 
 W. E. Howe. 
 
 Miss Helen B. Baer. 
 James Carter. 
 Miss Mary Burwell. 
 Miss Eva"T. Miller. 
 Marshall A. Christy. 
 J. Price Jackson. 
 Geo. C. McKee. 
 Miss Winnie Smith. 
 Herbert Kequa. 
 
 F. S. Bates. 
 Chas. G. Carter. 
 Mi Mary Rockwell. 
 Miss Margaret S. Potter. 
 J. R. Englebert. 
 
 AND. 
 
 Fred. J. Cotton. 
 Clark Burdick. 
 Frank Holt. 
 Thos. Crosby. Jr. 
 Jos. R. P. Weaver. 
 Jos. P. Cotton. 
 W. A. Dyer. 
 F. S. Phillips. 
 N. R. Hall. 
 Miss Marv Merchant.
 
 Alphabetical List of Chapters. 
 
 No. of Name and No. of p..^ aru1 
 
 Chap. Addrtss. Mem. 
 
 TENNESSEE. 
 
 55. Nashville. A. 20 
 
 117 Monroe st. R. I. Tucker. 
 
 433. Dallas, A. 6 D. G. Hinckley. 
 
 406. Fort Elliot, A. 5 
 
 Care C'apf. Hood. Thos. S. Hood. 
 
 600. Galveston, A. 5-3 Miss Anna L. Tucker. - 
 
 Av. Pand 36M st. C. B. E. Philip C. Tucker, Jr. 
 
 32. San Antonio, A. 7-2 Miss P. G. Stevenson. 
 
 225 Mdrtin *t. E. Miss P. G. Stevenson. 
 
 205. Waco, A. 30 
 
 'Box 454. Miss Mary J. Wright. 
 
 UTAH TERRITORY. 
 
 339. Salt Lake City, A. 6-1 Walter H. Nichols. 
 
 Or. O. B. E. G. Fred. E. Leonard. 
 
 487. Salt Lake City, B. 9 Wm. W. Brown. 
 
 495. Salt Lake City, C. 8-2 Fred. A. Stevens. 
 
 B. G. E. Arthur Webb. 
 
 VERMONT. 
 
 343. Brandon, A. 28 H. F. Copeland. 
 
 452. Burlington, A. 4 
 
 253 S. Unfo/> xf. Harry B. Shaw. 
 
 359. Castleton, A. 16 Miss Fannie C. Taylor. 
 
 236. Factory Point, A. 4 Chas. L. Bench. 
 
 Jesse D. Nichols. 
 
 508. Middlebury, B. 4 Miss May H. Bolton. 
 
 494. Northtield, A. 10-4 J. M. Hitt. 
 
 B. E. Or. Miss Clara E. Harwood. 
 
 486. Rutland. A. 15 S. W. Merril, Z. 
 
 536. St. Jolmslmry. B. 11-1 Ozorah S. Davis. 
 
 B.r 861. G. Thornton B. Penfield. 
 
 613. Winooski, A. 4-1 F. S. Paddock. 
 
 G. M. S. G. Ayres.
 
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 No. of Name and 
 Chap. Address. 
 
 Xo. of 
 Mem. 
 
 VIRGINIA. 
 
 i2S. Ilarrisonlmrg. A. 10 Mrs. F. A. DaiuirerrieM. 
 
 />/./ 66. " G. B. Miss M. M. Davis. 
 
 248. Richmond, A. 5 
 
 302 W. Grntce st. Mrs. James 13. Marshall. 
 
 449. Richmond, B. 4 
 
 707 E. Frank ft. W. O. English. 
 
 ooo. Olympia, A. 
 
 " TJi'ii-xl'Hi Co 
 303. Vancouver. A. 
 
 X TERRITORY. 
 
 IS Wiiilock Miller. 
 
 Robt. L. Blankenship. 
 4 Miss Julia De X. Beeson. 
 Lawson Nicholson. 
 
 404. Bamboo, A. 
 
 35. Cedar Creek. A. 
 42. Columbus, A. 
 134. DePere, A. 
 
 148. DePere, B. 
 
 -> 
 
 220. DePere, C. 
 
 221. DePere, D. 
 646. Jnnesville. A. 
 
 B;.r 1644. 
 18. Kenosha, A. 
 
 322. Madison, A. 
 
 228 Limgdon st. 
 524. Milwaukee, A. 
 
 MPratpecta*. 
 
 344. Monroe. A. 
 
 13 Xoble Thompson. 
 E. Miss Marie McKennan. 
 8 Dow Maxon. 
 8 Miss F. T. Griswold. 
 18-8 Geo. T. Marston. 
 
 Miss Annie S. Gilbert. 
 23-7 Miss J. White. 
 . B. Z. Miss Lilian Childs. 
 
 16 Miss Jessie R. Jackson. 
 7 Miss Carrie Dubois. 
 7 A. L. Prichard. 
 
 Miss Abbie E. Prichard. 
 6 Mrs. M. A. Baker. 
 M. E. Myron E. Baker. 
 14-4 Miss Georgie Sheldon. 
 
 Andrews Allen. 
 9-4 Philip S. Abbot, 
 
 Arthur E. Campbell. 
 23-1 J. J. Schindler. 
 G. C. M. Craven.
 
 Alphabetical List of Chapters. 
 
 No. of Name and No. of 
 Mem. Address. Mem. 
 
 350. Neillsvillc. A. 4 
 E. G. 
 253. Poynette, A. 2 
 B. 
 416. Racine, A. 6-1 
 926 Main st. Or. B. E. 
 610. Racine, B. 5 
 Ratine CoUege. Or. E. G. A. 
 97. St. Croix, A. 8 
 469. West DePere, A. 15-4 
 
 470. West DePere, B. 25 
 
 Pres. and Sec. 
 
 C. B. Bradshaw. 
 M. F. Bradshaw. 
 
 Hairy Russell. 
 Geo. L. Ains worth. 
 J. L. McCalman. 
 Samuel G. Welles. 
 Chas. S. Lewes. 
 Ray S. Baker. 
 A. R. DeLaney. 
 Miss Margaret Ramsay. 
 Miss Sara Ritchie.
 
 Hand-book. 
 FOREIGN CHAPTERS. 
 
 No. of Name and No. of 
 
 Chap. Address. Mem. 
 
 (327. Brighton, A. 10-2 Miss Rose Kemp. 
 
 Ontario. E. O. Miss Lizzie Squier. 
 
 602. Guelph, A. 15-7 Miss Alice 31. Petrie. 
 
 Ontario, box 213. Miss Daisy M. Dill. 
 
 395. Montreal, A. 52-8 J. J. Procter. 
 
 34 St. Peter rf. E. W. D. Shaw. 
 
 451. Sydney Mines, A. 4 
 
 Cape Breton Island. />"7> Miss I. B. Hanington. 
 
 Hill. E. B. M. S. Brown. 
 
 CHILI. 
 
 441. Valparaiso, A. 7 W. Sabina, care Rev. A. 
 
 Camilla, 904. M. Merwin. 
 
 ENGLAND. 
 
 2-22. London, A. 1-7 Lister Hayter. 
 Highqate, Glertggle, Wood- 
 lane. E. M. Or. G. S. Hayter. 
 305. London, B. 8 
 
 10 St. MidiaeVs, Wood Green. Miss Leila A. Mawer. 
 534. London, C. 5 
 
 52 Tacistock *'/. Montague Gunning. 
 611. London, D. 4 
 
 19 Queen's Gardens, W. R. T. Walker, E. 
 
 23. Stroud, A. 26-8 Mrs. Coley. 
 
 Cattle Bank. B. E. Miss Gertrude C. Ruegg. 
 
 SCOTLAND. 
 
 475. Dundee, A. 12-1 Miss Henderson. 
 
 Tat/side House. B. Or. Miss Keiller. 
 
 549. Linlithgow, A. 4 Wm. Wardrop, B. S. 
 
 Gowan Cottage. B. E. G. Ost.
 
 Alphabetical List of Chapters. 
 
 No. of Name and No of 
 
 Chap. Address. Mem. Pres - and Sec -
 
 112 Hand-book. 
 
 No. of Name and No. of 
 
 Mem. Address. Mem.
 
 Alphabetical List of Chapters. n 3 
 
 Mem f
 
 H4 Hand-Book. 
 
 Name and , No. of 
 
 Address. >rni.
 
 Conclusion. nj 
 
 CHAPTER XVIII. 
 
 CONCLUSION. 
 
 What, after all, is our purpose in studying Nature ? 
 Is it to get for ourselves collections of rare and 
 beautiful objects ? Is it to amuse us during our 
 leisure hours ? Is it to train our powers of observa- 
 tion and strengthen our minds by careful discipline ? 
 Is it to satisfy our natural thirst for knowledge, and 
 to become familiar with all the little strangers of 
 the roadside and the wood ? It is all this, but it 
 should be much more. We ought to be learning 
 the grand and solemn lesson that a Divine mind is 
 showing its wisdom in every leaf and pebble, and 
 that a Divine heart is expressing its love in every 
 rain-drop and in every flower. This was the truth 
 that filled the heart of him for whom our Associa- 
 tion is named this was the secret of his untiring 
 zeal, and the key to his deep love of Nature. It 
 has grown to be a pleasant custom for our chapters 
 to celebrate Prof. Agassiz's birthday (May 28), by 
 means of an excursion or picnic, combined with 
 appropriate literary exercises ; and perhaps on such 
 an occasion nothing will more truly bring home to 
 us the sweet spirit of the great Naturalist than 
 Whittier's poem, "The Prayer of Agassiz ;" or 
 Longfellow's lines on his fiftieth birthday, which, 
 by the courtesy of his publishers, we are able to 
 reproduce.
 
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 THE FIFTIETH IUKT1II>AY OF AGASS1Z. 
 MAY ay, Lsor. 
 
 It was fifty yea is ago 
 
 In the pleasant month of .May, 
 
 In the beautiful Pays tie Valid, 
 A child in its cradle lay. 
 
 And Nature, the old nurse, took 
 
 The child upon her knee, 
 Saying: " Here is a story book 
 
 Thy Father has written for tliee." 
 
 " Come, wander with me," she said, 
 
 ' ' Into regions yet untrod ; 
 
 And read what is still unread 
 
 In the manuscripts of God. 
 
 And he wandered away and away 
 With Nature, the dear old nurse, 
 
 Who sang to him night and day 
 The rhymes of the universe. 
 
 And whenever the way seemed long, 
 
 Or his heart began to fail, 
 She would sing a more wonderful song, 
 
 Or tell a more marvellous tale. 
 
 So she keeps him still a child. 
 
 And will not let him go, 
 Though at times his heart beats wild 
 
 For the beautiful Pays de Vaud ; 
 
 Though at times he hears in his dreams 
 
 The Ranz des Vaches of old, 
 And the rush of mountain streams 
 
 From glaciers clear and cold ; 
 
 And the mother at home says, " Hi 
 For his voice I listen and yearn ; 
 
 It is growing late and dark, 
 And my boy does not return." 
 
 Hark!
 
 Requests for further information may be addressed 
 to the President of the Association, 
 
 
 MK. HARI.AN H. HAM.AKD, 
 
 Principal of Lenox Aeadem\\ 
 
 Lenox, Her ks/urc Co., Mass.
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Abbot, .Jacob. . . '-'I 
 
 Agassiz Association, Advantage* <>f. 
 
 F" under, .... 3 
 
 Membership, ... G 
 
 Plou, .... 7 
 
 Scfwo! ^K-I'I ti< .v. . (j & 55 
 
 Site-cud Gltussex, . . .7 
 
 Airassiz, Prof. Louis. ///* HW.-. ... 5 
 
 ffis knowledge of Fisha, . . '21 
 
 ' . 11 
 
 Audubon, ...... 
 
 Bsulge of A. A., ... .51 
 
 Birds, //o/r to Collect, 
 
 Books, Notes on, ... .71 
 
 2V^ ne>rx*"ryf"r NaturftUttLi, 
 Reco'in mciiilcij. ... .00 
 
 Botanical box, . . - (( 
 
 By-laws. .... 
 
 Cabinet, . 
 
 California chapters, 
 
 Canada chapters, . 
 
 Chapters, oorretpondenoe between, 
 
 Family, ..... 53 
 
 How Mined ...... 9 
 
 How to organize, .... 12 
 
 Liatof, ' ...... 31 
 
 Number of, . . . . . & 
 
 Reportoof, .... 15. ','5 A: 5J) 
 
 Chili chapter, 110 
 
 City, work in a, .46 
 
 Clarke, Louisa Lane, . 31 
 
 Classification vfanumii.*, 17 
 
 of mineral*, .... 
 of regetftbley, . . .18 
 
 Colorado chapters. 
 
 Conclusion, 
 
 Connecticut chapter-. 
 
 Constitution of A. A.,
 
 Index. ii 
 
 PAGE. 
 
 Correspondence, conditions of, 65 
 
 Ouvier, . . . . . .1? 
 
 Dana, Prof., .... 18 
 
 Dakota Territory chapters, 
 
 Delaware chapters, . . . . . 84 
 
 District of Columbia chapters, 
 
 Drying paper, ... 
 
 Edward, Thomas. . . . . .20 
 
 Eggs, lloir to mail simplex, .... 49 
 
 England, chapters of. . . . . .110 
 
 Exchanging, .... 
 
 Expenses, . ..... 16 
 
 Florida chapters, . .... 84 
 
 Gray, Prof. Asa. . . . . 18 & 26 
 
 Herbarium. ... . . . 28 
 
 History of A. A., . . . . .3 
 
 Illinois chapters, 
 
 Indiana chapters, . . . . .86 
 
 Individual members, .... 16 
 
 Insects, cabinets for, . . . . .87 
 
 Cotte-ctiiiff cam for, .... 36 
 
 How to collect, .... 34 
 
 Methods of observation, ... 38 
 
 Iowa chapters, . . . . .87 
 
 Jones, Dr. Marcus E. , . . . . 7 
 
 Kansas chapters, ... . . .88 
 
 Kentucky chapters, 
 
 Lenox, Mass., ... . . .3 
 
 Libraries and reading rooms of chapters. . 58 
 
 Magazines and papers, . . . . .74 
 
 Maine chapters, 
 
 Maryland chapters, . . . . . . 89 
 
 Massachusetts chapters. .... 89 
 
 Members, names of, . . . . 50 
 
 Reports from ..... 52 
 
 Michigan chapters, . . . .93 
 
 Minerals, How to collect and arranye. 9 . 44 
 
 Minnesota chapters, ... .94 
 
 Mississippi chapters. .... 94 
 
 Missouri chapters, ... .84 
 
 Morse, E. S., . . . . 37 
 
 New Hampshire chapters. .... 95 
 
 New Jersey chn piers. .... 95
 
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 N<sw Mexico chapter, . . . 101 
 
 New York chapteis. {)? 
 
 Nevada chapters,, . 1<>2 
 
 North Carol ina chapters, . 102 
 
 Notes, .... ,58 
 
 Official organ of A. A., .... M & 77 
 
 Ohio chapters. ...... 102 
 
 Order, Rule* of, . . . . r.\ 
 
 Oregon chapters, . . . . . .10:5* 
 
 Packard, Prof. Asa, .... :'* 
 
 Parker, Prof. G. Howard, .... 3S 
 
 Parliamentary law, . . . . . 13 
 
 Pennsylvania chapters. . . . . 108 
 
 Plan of work. ... . . . 17 
 
 Plants. ll,,,r tn ,;,lli. .... 20 
 
 President nf A. A.. . . . . :',. IT, & 114 
 
 Presidents of chapters, . . . 15 A: 17 
 
 Publishers' addresses, . . . . . 70 
 
 Red Cross Class. . . . . . .7 
 
 Reports from chapters and members. . . 52 
 
 Rhode Island chapters. . . . .100 
 
 S/. AY--//'//,/*. . . . 3, 8, 9. 15, 20. 40. 50 ,V 77 
 
 St. Pierre. . ... . . .21 
 
 Scientist. . . . . . . 00 
 
 Si-.- (weed. //"// t<> <'olli, . . . . .81 
 
 Secretaries of chapters. . . . . 15 
 
 .Specialists. Jf/f//r.xwx nf, .... fi?> 
 
 Specimens, Ih.r i,, collect, .... 2 
 
 Supplies. H7///v tnttrt. . . 78 
 
 Switxerland, . .... 3 
 
 Taxidermy, . . .... 41 
 
 Tennessee chapters, .... 107 
 
 T--xa< clia)>tcr-. .... in? 
 
 Vermont chapters, . . . . 10? 
 
 Virginia chapters, . .... 108 
 
 t'tah Territory chapters. . . . . in? 
 
 Warren. Dr. Tims. E.. . . .'.*.' 7 
 
 Washington Territory chapters. . . 108 
 
 White. Gilbert. . ..... .21 
 
 Winter. \V1uil /" tl ///, . . . . 4<I 
 
 Wi<con>in ehaptei-x. -; . ^QS 
 
 Wood. Ilmr tn ;>/< /><!/< */>/', ,<fnJ< of, 3() 
 
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