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kept flying when we have our meetings. Several of the meetings 

 of the Boston Assembly have been held at the Chapter House. We 

 have quite a collection of minerals, and are adding to it all the 

 'time. We built a piazza in front of our house ourselves. We 

 opened it with a reception, June 4, to which about seventy of our 

 friends came not all at once, but between 4.30 and 8.30 We 

 have just had a stove put in, and are preparing for cold weather. 

 Wishing the A. A. success, 



C. S. GREENE. 



Chapters in which both sexes, young and old, teach- 

 ers and pupils, unite, have been equally successful. 

 Witness the following report from our largest chapter, 

 which has grown up under the affectionate care of 

 Professor E. Adams Hartwell : 



FITCHBURG, Mass. 



We organized, as you know, in January, 1886, our present 

 chapter being formed by the union of four smaller chapters pre- 

 viously existing here, and on February 5 held our first regular 

 meeting. With one exception, meetings have been held once in 

 two weeks since then. Fourteen members were registered at our 

 organization, and since that time our growth has been steady. 

 We have registered on our books up to date one hundred and forty- 

 two names. At first our meetings were held in a room in the high- 

 school building ; but, as our membership increased, we felt the 

 need of more convenient quarters, and accordingly in September 

 we hired a hall on Main Street, where we have our cabinets and 

 hold our meetings. We have had built two cabinets 4' x 7' x 12", 

 to hold our large collections of minerals, shells, birds, bottled 

 specimens, etc. We have also a valuable herbarium of over five 

 hundred specimens. In addition to these we have a few maga- 

 zines and pamphlets, and hope some day to own a good library. 

 On May 28 we celebrated with appropriate exercises and great 

 success the birthday of Agassiz. On that occasion we had on 

 exhibition our collections, both individual and collective. At our 

 meetings members are encouraged to bring in reports of observa- 

 tions, items of scientific interest found in papers and magazines, 

 specimens of various kinds, etc. The principal exercises of the 

 evening consist of essays or debates, varied occasionally by the in- 

 troduction of a mock trial or a mock senate. Last autumn a com- 

 mittee was appointed to investigate the mineral wealth of Rollstone, 



