TOO THREE KINGDOMS. 



In some cases members take turns in giving lec- 

 tures. 



We have given a parlor concert. C. K. Linson 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. D. 



A love for Nature often affects the whole character. 



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, careless 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. 



