THE AGASSTZ ASSOCIATION. 



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Our plan of work is this: we intend 

 to get as complete a collection as pos- 

 sible of all the land and fresh-water 

 univalves in and about Chicago, and 

 to exchange with every country in the 

 world. Mr. Hand, our faculty repre- 

 sentative, has already received letters 

 from Japan and California and other 

 places, asking us to exchange, and we 

 expect to make a big success of our 



hundred feet high. We "Park Life" 

 boys are not particular, you see, about 

 our mode of eating while in camp. 

 There are no tables, no damask linen, 

 no fine dishes ; yet it matters nothing 

 to us, for we like to take our fare as 

 the aborigines took theirs, and enjoy 

 it as much, perhaps more than if it 

 were a sumptuous banquet. 



During our excursions we were af- 



THE A.\ BUTTONS, AXD THE PIX DESIGNED BY THE CHICAGO CHAPTER. 



(Enlarged in the illustration.) 



plan. The reason for our doing this is 

 that no one else has accomplished it as 

 yet and we wish to be the first to do it. 



I am sending you our Agassiz pin 

 and hope you will like it. The head is 

 that of an owl. The price of the pins 

 is one dollar and fifty ($1.50) cents 

 each. 



If yon could offer any suggestions 

 regarding our shell plan, we should all 

 be most thankful for them. 

 Yours respectfully , 

 Dorothy Dexxstaedt, Secretary 



Report of "Park Life" Chapter. 



P.Y ROBERT E. YOUNG, JR., SECRETARY, 

 DUBUQUE. IOWA. 



The accompanying photograph is of 

 a group of Professor Horchem's "Park 

 Life" boys, a Chapter of The Agassiz 

 Association, doing what they most 

 like to do — eating. The photograph 

 was taken from a high place at 

 a distance of several miles from Du- 

 buque,, Iowa, and overlooking the 

 beautiful Mississippi, where at the rear 

 towers in lofty grandeur a bluff three 



forded many opportunities for nature 

 study, and many of our boys came 

 back to the city feeling as important 

 with their newly acquired knowledge, 

 as if it were the wisdom of Solomon 

 himself. 



The many trees, oak, elm, ash, hard 

 and soft maple, birch, honey-locust, 

 coffee-bean hackberry, walnut, butter- 

 nut, bass, catalpa, peach, cottonwood 

 and six varieties of evergreens, which 

 grow on the "Park Life" grounds, en- 

 abled us to become experts on the tree 

 question, while more botany, observa- 

 tion of plants in their natural habitat, 

 was absorbed by the "Park Life" 

 "fellows" in a day than the most enter- 

 prising teacher could have drilled into 

 them in three weeks. 



Birds also came within sight of our 

 eager eyes. Quail were studied in their 

 native haunts, and . in connection with 

 this, there was an interesting incident 

 which took place on one trip. A little 

 farmer boy found a quail's nest con- 

 taining fourteen eggs. Of course he 

 told of his discovery to his friends and 



