CHAPTER XIV. 



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. , we thought that it was just what 

 we wanted. So on Wednesday, August 2nd, 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 9,300 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. 



The next shows how Boards of Education help us : 



HYDE PARK, Illinois. 



I am happy to inform you that a Natural History Association 

 has been formed in our High School. We have seventeen mem- 

 bers, all of whom are enthusiastic in their work. We all desire to 

 connect ourselves with the A. A. We had a cabinet made, which 



