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Several of our chapters publish local papers. 



MACOMB, 111. 



Progressing nicely. We meet at each other's houses e%ry 

 Friday afternoon after school. Almost all of us have been collect- 

 ing insects during the summer. We have a paper read every two 

 weeks, to which we contribute original articles on anything per- 

 taining 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 

 microscopes, etc. Where do they get their money ? We like the 

 A. A. very much. 



NELLIE H. TUNNICLIFF. 



The next letter shows how to raise money when it 

 is needed. 



BUFFALO, N. V. 



Our report is somewhat tardy, owing to an entertainment given 

 for our microscope fund. We realized $85, 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 lateness of the season, we have collec- 

 tively made but one excursion, though individually we have not 

 been idle. 



CORA FREEMAN. 



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 was read to us. We forthwith 

 adopted the name, constitution, 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 microscope, 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 



