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THE GUIDE TO NATURE 



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AGASSIZ ASSOCIATION' 



Rwtablishecl 1875 Incorporated, Massachusetts, 1892 Incorporated, Connecticut, 1910 



Our Meriden High School Chapter. 



[Held over from last issue.] 

 This Chapter does things in the 

 right way. We are pleased by their 

 success. It seems difficult to get some 

 persons to recognize the fact that 

 there is a difference between AA work 

 and that of the regular class room 

 science work. We are not to dupli- 



THE CHAPTER HAS ITS OWN ROOM. 



cate class room science, but to supple- 

 ment it. 



This Chapter under the excellent 

 leadership of Miss Caroline J. Hitch- 

 cock has entered into the right spirit 

 of work supplementary to the regular 

 science work of a high school. The 

 leader writes, "Each member has been 

 expected to specialize. The committee 

 have urged this and have given advice 

 on the choice of subject for study." 

 That is the true keynote to the situa- 

 tion. A class works together, an AA 

 Chapter works individually; the AA 

 Chapter stimulates individual speciali- 

 zation. 



E. Gardner, Chairman of the Mu- 

 seum Committee of our Meriden 

 Chapter, gives an extended report of 

 what has been done in arranging the 

 laboratory and describes in detail the 

 various collections that have been 

 added. He shows that the museum has 

 grown rapidly in the past year. He 

 also tells what he has done individu- 

 ally in the study of trees. 



E. Norma Doolittle investigated 

 moths and butterflies and then turned 

 her attention to trees. She relates in- 

 teresting experiences also in studying 

 porpoises and her unsuccessful at- 

 tempts to photograph them. The re- 

 port shows that she has her eyes in 

 readiness for all nature because she 

 mentions many things of interest. 



Anita E. Balzer has carefully studied 

 the spring flowers of New England 

 and collected thirty-five kinds. She 

 tells how she mounted them. Then 

 her work was contributed to the Chap- 

 ter. She had six varieties of blue vio- 

 let. She also reports regarding pho- 

 tography. 



Sara A. Elmendorf has done ex- 

 tended work on seaweeds and makes 

 an interesting report telling how she 

 studied the fine branching by the aid 

 of a lens. She notes the colors and 

 characteristics and has learned most 

 of the scientific names. 



Doris Parker has carefully studied 

 the birds, noting especially their 

 colors. 



Elma Risley McLean has devoted 

 attention to the mosses and pressed 

 and mounted several different kinds in 

 their sporophyte state. She has studied 

 the structure and made drawings of 

 the archegonium. She intends to con- 

 tinue the study this spring, and also to 

 note some of the common ferns. She 

 has raised a brood of caterpillars and 

 "found it far more interesting than 

 reading about them,' and states that 



