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THE GUIDE TO NATURE 



AGASSIZ ASSOCIATION' 



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Established 1*75 



Incorporated, Massachusetts, 1892 



Incorporated, Connecticut, 1910 



From the Breckinridge Chapter, Louis- 

 ville, Kentucky. 



We received our charter and the copy 

 of "Three Kingdoms" several weeks 

 ago. We have already found the book 

 useful, and have decided to have the 

 charter framed and hung in chapel of 

 the Normal School. We appreciate 

 very much your welcome. 



We would appreciate it very much if 

 you would send a sample of the AA pin 

 so that the Chapter can vote on getting 

 it. 



We have an indoor meeting of the 

 Chapter on the second Thursday of 

 each month. At this meeting we have 

 a programme relating to our work, at- 

 tend to our business, and decide on the 

 place and purpose of that month's out- 

 ing. We do not intend though to limit 

 the jaunts to one a month when it is 

 possible to have more. 



We have taken trees as an appropriate 

 study for winter. On our first outing 

 we devoted the trip to discovering what 

 we would like to study further. The 

 Vice-President then made a report of 

 the jaunt to the Normal classes in a 

 body. At the indoor meeting following 

 we had two papers read — "Trees in 

 General" and "Trees in Winter." The 

 aim of the next jaunt was tree recog- 

 nition and we went to a park where 

 there is the greatest variety of trees in 

 this vicinity and the trees are labelled, 

 so we will know our trees for future 

 work. We will continue the study of 

 trees for the whole year unless the 

 members find something of more im- 

 mediate importance at a certain time, 

 and in addition to the trees will study 

 rhe spring flowers when their season 

 comes. 



We are very much interested in the 

 work and have found it very pleasant. 



Celeste Dempf, 



Corresponding Secretary. 



Putnam Chapter, Greenwich, Connect- 

 icut. 



Officers : President, Dorothy Thorp , 

 Vice-President, Marion Look; Record- 

 ing Secretary, Constance Taylor, Cor- 

 responding Secretary, Marion Carson ; 

 Treasurer. Janet Warford. Number of 

 members, twelve. 



Report of the Johnstown (Pennsyl- 

 vania) Chapter. 



Officers : President, Virginia Lewis ; 

 Vice-President, Stanley Noffsinger ; 

 Treasurer, Magdalene Yoder ; Secretary, 

 Ida Weisberg; Reporter, Sanford Cable; 

 Faculty Adviser, Miss Krebs. Number 

 of members, twenty-one. 



The year has been a very busy one for 

 the Johnstown Chapter of The Agassiz 

 Association. Last spring we built bird 

 boxes, especially for the wrens. Many 

 of the members succeeded in getting the 

 birds to come to the boxes and build 

 their nests. The Chapter is now building 

 martin boxes. We expect to have these 

 boxes out before spring to be weathered, 

 and expect to be successful in enticing 

 the birds to them. 



In the fall we had a number of excur- 

 sions to study the medicinal weeds. One 

 of the most interesting excursions of the 

 year was a trip up the mountain. When 

 we reached the highest point we were 

 able to look down into the valleys of 

 four different counties. 



A new. large aquarium has been 

 placed in the High School building. The 

 members of the Agassiz Chapter are 

 very much interested in the goldfish and 

 aquatic insects. The aquarium is di- 

 vided into two parts, and the goldfish 

 and aquatic insects are kept separate. 



The members of the Chapter are ex- 

 perimenting with the "dwarf trees," but 

 as yet we have had no success. 



Ida E. Weisberg, Secretary. 



