THE AGASSIZ ASSOCIATION 



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Annual Report of the Baltimore Chap- 

 ter of the Agassiz Association. 

 Honorary President, Dr. Leslie H. 

 Ingham ; President, Frank Dawson ; 

 Vice-President, Bartus T. Baggott; 

 Secretary, John Donnet, Jr. ; Treasurer, 

 Albert Z. Aldridge ; Ass't Secretary, 

 Schlessinger ; Field Secretary, N. King; 

 Sergeant-at-arms, Sarbacker. Execu- 

 tive Committee: Bartus T. Baggott, 

 Chairman ; Frank Dawson, Herbert In- 

 gham, John Donnet, and King. Mu- 

 seum Committee : Messrs. Ingham, 

 King and Sacks. Constitutional Re- 

 visory Committee : Messrs. Dawson, 

 Baggott, and Donnet. Head of the 

 Dept. of Scientific French Literature : 

 Frank Dawson. Head of the Dept. of 

 Scientific Spanish Literature : Bartus 

 T. Baggott. Head of the Dept. of 

 Scientific German Literature : John 

 Donnet. Regular meeting days. Wed- 

 nesdays, 3.00 p. m., Baltimore City Col- 

 lege. Membership : Fifty-seven. Scien- 

 tific branches under active study: Avia- 

 tion, Geology, Mineralogy, Chemistry, 

 Zoology, and Botany. Special branches 

 of study : Toxicology, Medical Juris- 

 prudence. 



HISTORY AND OUTLINE OF CHAPTER 233A. 

 AGASSIZ ASSOCIATION. 



The Baltimore Chapter of the Agas- 

 siz Association was organized about 

 the year 1889 by students of the Balti- 

 more City College interested in the 

 study of nature. It seems to have been 

 a thriving organization though having 

 a small membership until the year 

 1898 or 1899. At this time it seems 

 to have passed out of active existence 

 until reorganized by Dr. Leslie H. Ing- 

 ham (Head of the Dept. of Science at 

 the Baltimore City College) in the year 

 1907. On the occasion of this reor- 

 ganization, the Society did not inform 

 Headquarters, nor did it, for some rea- 

 son, re-enter the world-wide organiza- 

 tion of the Agassiz Association as one 

 of its chapters, but continued its work 

 as a society independent of any other. 



It behooves us, therefore, to write to 

 you, soliciting advice as to how we may 

 re-enter your worthy organization, or 

 rather as to how we may continue as 

 a chapter, as formerly. Your esteemed 



agent, Mr. Wilhelm, has kindly ad- 

 vised us to send you this report and 

 history. Owing to the loss of valuable 

 records during the time of the society's 

 inactivity, we fear that the "history" is 

 somewhat incomplete. 



The present officers and members oi 

 the chapter are unanimously willing 

 to re-enter your ranks, inasmuch as our 

 work is of such a progressive nature 

 and since we are the only society of its 

 kind in the Baltimore City College. 



Several of the members of the newly 

 formed "Maryland Ave. Chapter" of 

 the Agassiz, No. 1040, are or were 

 members of this chapter and if we too 

 can regain our classification as Chapter 

 233A, much work might be carried on 

 jointly to the profit of both. 



We are, meanwhile, inclosing a brief 

 outline of work done during the past 

 collegiate year with a few examples of 

 our experiments, illustrating the dif- 

 ferent branches of science in which we 

 are active. 



OUTLINE OF WORK FOR I9IO-II. 



The society began its last year's 

 work under the direction of Dr. Leslie 

 H. Ingham, who recommended the 

 study of trees as an excellent branch 

 for the members to take up, and 

 throughout the year many essays were 

 written and lectures and readings de- 

 livered on the subject. After the elec- 

 tion of officers in the spring, a very in- 

 teresting line of work was taken up,, 

 namely, the classification of trees. A 

 piece of land on the edge of the city 

 limits was selected, where the society 

 had previously studied geology, and a 

 large number of trees were classified, 

 the work being especially instructive 

 since the classification was carried on 

 before the leaves appeared, it being the 

 latter part of March. 



Just previous to this, a very inter- 

 esting and instructive lecture was de- 

 livered by Dr. Ingham on the new sew- 

 erage system of Baltimore, soon to be 

 put into operation, and which is one of 

 the finest in the world. Dr. Ingham 

 here gave a complete description of the 

 workings of the system from beginning 

 to end, his lecture being accompanied 

 by a very creditable address by Prof. 



