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also articles of interest which cannot be cut from valuable books. 

 The president always appoints one member to ask three questions 

 to be answered at the next meeting. The correct answers are 

 copied into our manuscript scrap-book. 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 centipede for exchange, also a 

 stinging lizard and a horned frog. JENNY WISE. 



LEDYARD, Conn. 



We live far apart from one another, and on cold winter evenings 

 it is quite an effort to drive two or three miles to a meeting ; but 

 we have held them just the same, with hardly an exception. We 

 bought a mineral collection, and studied the specimens in order, 

 bringing our own specimens to compare with them. Memorial 

 Day we celebrated by an excursion to Lantern Hill. Twenty-two 

 of us reached the foot of the hill before noon, and there had sing- 

 ing and select readings from The Swiss Cross. After dinner we 

 climbed the hill. Orchids, star-flowers, and ragwort excited re- 

 mark among our botanists. \Ve chiselled ' A. A. '87 ' upon the 

 bark of a chestnut oak, gave three cheers for Agassiz and three 

 for our chapter, and then wended our way to the silex-works. 

 Here each member tried to find a large crystal, several succeeding 

 in getting them as large as a man's thumb. Besides these we 

 brought home handfuls of the powdered silex, which is sent to 

 New York to be made into crockery, paint and sttgar. In the 

 fall we hope to purchase books, and raise money for a course of 

 scientific lectures. " So, high in hope, we wait the summer 

 through." MARY A. AVERY. 



And our ranks are recruited by an increasing 

 number of adult members, who are equally welcome. 



NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J., Oct., 1887. 



MY DEAR SIR, We are now under full steam ; eighty-eight 

 members ; list increasing rapidly. We have organized sections 

 under which the members register a la the American Association 

 for the Advancement of Science, as follows : Microscopy, Dr. A. 

 V. N. Baldwin ; Botany, Dr. N. Williamson ; Photography, P. 

 T. Austen, Ph.D. ; Zoology, Professor Van Dyck ; Astronomy, 

 Professor Merriman ; Natural Philosophy, Mr. Ranney ; Geology, 

 Professor Cook ; Meteorology, Professor McGann ; Ornithology, 

 Dr. C. H. Voorhees. Membership will probably strike about 200. 



Yours, very truly, 



PETER T. AUSTEN. 



