THE AGASSIZ ASSOCIATION 



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The Wykagyl Chapter, New Rochelle, 

 New York. 



Officers : May Hoffman ; Vice-Presi- 

 dent, Henriette Hoffman ; ' Recording 

 Secretary, Frances Barker; Corres- 

 ponding Secretary, Anita Peck ; Treas- 

 urer, Helen C. Levine. Number of 

 members : sixteen. 



Our Third Louisville (Kentucky) 

 Chapter 



Officers : George White, President ; 

 Richard Peter, Vice-President ; Kath- 

 erine Schachner, Secretary; Letitia 

 Lawrence, Corresponding Secretary ; 

 Thurman Cast, Treasurer ; Nellie 

 Starks, Chairman of Library Commit- 

 tee ; Nancy Starks, Chairman of Pro- 

 gram Committee ; Walton Small, Ser- 

 geant-at Arms. Number of Members, 

 seventy-four. 



The Chapter of The Agassiz Associa- 

 tion in The Monsarrat School w 1-- or- 

 ganized this week. I am enclosing a list 

 of members and officer j. The young 

 people are very enthusiastic about it and 

 are anxious to begin work at once. The 

 day we organized was warm and sun- 

 shiny and the odor of growing things 

 was in the air. We expect to have many 

 field trips in the country, but when this 

 is impossible we have our parks that will 

 furnish us with abundant material for 

 our studies. Birds and spring Mowers 

 will be our special work for the next two 

 months. 



We hope to send you gratifying ac- 

 count^ of our Chapter in the near fu- 

 ture. 



JENNIE C. BakEwEel, 

 Teacher of English, 

 Monsarrat school. 



The Supreme Agassiz Idea. 



The summer school of Agassiz at 

 Penikese had a great influence upon 

 nature-study in the schools and univer- 

 sities and paved the way for the nature- 

 study idea. While the purpose of 

 Agassiz was to study marine life in a 

 truly scientific manner, yet the fact that 

 he took his pupils to the place where the 

 life was growing was revolutionary as 

 an educational idea. Although as a 

 teacher he was devoted to pure science, 

 yet many of his maxims have become 

 the slogans of the nature-study van- 

 guard. — Anna Botsford Comstock in 

 the "Nature-Study Review." 



A Report of Geological Observations. 



Winona, Ohio. 



To The Agassiz Association : 



1 hereby submit the following brief 

 report of observations taken during the 

 past year along the lines of local glacial 

 geology. 



Northern Columbiana County, Ohio, 

 lies just inside the southern limits of the 

 last great glacier. It is covered with a 

 sheet of drift varying from three to 

 three hundred feet in thickness. This 

 lies in long slopes of hill and valley, 

 gently undulating, with a general 

 drainage to the Great Lakes. Imme- 

 diately south of the terminal moraines 

 the creeks run in a general southerly 

 direction with rather steep and abrupt 

 slopes and only a very thin covering of 

 residual soil. The drift country is char- 

 acterized by its numerous large granite 

 boulders, its great variety of sandstones 

 —often containing many valuable fos- 

 sils, and the frequent occurrence of 

 marshy land. Swamps are almost un- 

 known south of this belt, while igneous, 

 metarmorphic, or a variety of sedimen- 

 tary rocks are entirely replaced by the 

 coarse red sandstone which under- 

 lies most of the southeastern part 

 of the state. This alternates with 

 shale, limestone, and coal, which are 

 usually found only at a consider- 

 able depth here. In drilling for oil 

 in the western part of the county, a 

 large pre-glacial valley of uncertain ex- 

 tent has been discovered. It appears 

 to run at a considerable angle to the 

 present drainage slope. It has been 

 estimated to be about three hundred feet 

 in depth. Crossing it lies the present 

 valley of the Mahoning river, which 

 widens out into a large, level, dried-up, 

 glacial lake bottom. This is now occu- 

 pied by only a small lake at the north- 

 eastern end. The region is almost too 

 flat to farm, owing to its resultant poor 

 drainage, but the land is rich and almost 

 totally free from stones of any kind. 

 East of this old lake bed we find several 

 eskers of considerable extent which are 

 valuable for the sand they supply. 

 Farther west, running diagonally 

 through the city of Massilon, is another 

 very large esker which varys from ten 

 to thirty or more feet in height, and sup- 

 plies an immense amount of material 

 for concrete work. Most of the land in 



