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AGASSIZ ASSOCIATION 



Entablished 187.i Incorporated, Maasachii setts, lxo? Incorjiorntpfl. Connecticut, 1910 



Chapter of Louisville Girls' High 

 School. 



Officers : President, Elvira Randle ; 

 Vice-President, Ruth M. Duckwall ; 

 Recording Secretary, Kathryne Sik- 

 king; Corresponding Secretary, Dor- 

 othy Shelley ; Treasurer, Mary Vir- 

 ginia Howard. Number of members, 

 fifty-three. 



If it were possible, every girl and 

 woman belonging to the Louisville 

 Girls' High School Chapter of The 

 Agassiz Association would visit you at 

 ArcAdiA to personally thank you for 

 the lectures you gave in Louisville this 

 fall. As we cannot do that, we take 

 this means of showing our appreciation 

 of the two free lectures given by you 

 at the Louisville Girls' High School. 



Our Chapter has been revivified. 

 New plans of progress are maturing, 

 and interest in furthering those plans 

 has greatly increased. The call of the 

 road now before us is alluring and ir- 

 resistible. 



Every week we go for a walk in 

 some one of the suburbs of Louisville. 

 Our AA Members do not believe in 

 riding any more than is absolutely nec- 

 essary, and we enjoy the freedom from 

 city traffic. Besides, we want to get 

 as close to the trees and flowers, and 

 little wood people as we can. It is the 

 tree that we intend to learn about this 

 year. Our botany teacher here at the 

 High School points out to us the differ- 

 ent varieties of trees which grow in 

 Kentucky. We are learning their 

 names and ways, and their uses. 

 Whenever an especially good specimen 

 of a tree is found we carefully take it 

 from its native home and place it in 

 our specimen case. This is going to 

 be the most important and most de- 

 lightful study of our hikes. But the 

 flowers, the mosses, the fungi and the 

 ferns are hunted from underneath the 

 dry brown leaves. The berries and the 

 nuts, too, receive due respect and love, 

 and often suffer dire destruction at the 

 hands of the hungry Agassiz girls. 



THE LOUISVILLE (KENTUCKY) GIRLS' HIGH SCHOOL CHAPTER. 



