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and exhibit by and by. Some chapters offer little prizes 

 for the best summer work, to be awarded after due ex- 

 amination of specimens and note-books. It is well, too, 

 to remember the General Association, and to strive to 

 make its aims and methods more widely known as we 

 journey from place to place. Some of our young 

 friends establish chapters in almost every place they 

 visit, maintaining also during their absence regular 

 correspondence with their companions who are de- 

 tained at home. In this way the close of the vacation 

 finds increased, rather than diminished, interest in 

 nature, and the chapter gains a new impulse and 

 enters upon its work with fresh elasticity and vigor. 



