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where the granite-quarries are, and they presented not long since 

 a very interesting report of their researches. In the spring we 

 shall expect a similar report from a committee appointed to inves- 

 tigate Pearl Hill, another of our landmarks. During the spring 

 and summer, in addition to our bi-weekly meeting, we had sev- 

 eral field excursions, when we took long walks into the country. 

 Early in July a picnic was held at a lake a few miles from here. 

 While the greater part of our members are young people from the 

 schools, mostly the high-school, however, we have several teachers 

 and some of the city's merchants in our ranks. 



NELLIE F. MARSHALL, Secretary. 



Valuable libraries and reading-rooms are founded 

 in connection with the A. A. 



MONTREAL, Canada. 



We have a splendid cabinet, six feet high, three feet wide, and 

 two feet deep, containing forty-eight drawers, twenty-two of which 

 are allotted to the entomological section. Nineteen of these are 

 already filled with insects. Our library promises to become a 

 great success. We are trying to secure a room in the St. Antoine 

 School for a museum and reading-room. We have had two 

 very successful field-meetings, on one of which prizes were offered 

 for the best collection made during the day. I expect to see the 

 Montreal branch of the A. A. take a leading position among the 

 scientific institutions of Canada. One of our most successful 

 evenings was spent with the microscope. 



W. D. SHAW. 



Mr. Shaw, who was one of the brightest and most 

 promising young men in the Association, died about a 

 year ago, at the early age of nineteen, leaving a name 

 beloved and honored wherever it was known. 



GREENUP, Ky., December, 1887. 



The Public Library formed here under our auspices has now a 

 thousand volumes, and we are busy cataloguing them. 



Mrs. GEORGE GIBBS. 



