650 POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY. 



while the club has in return been a great benefactor to many who 

 sought its instruction and the association of those with like tastes. 

 In arranging regular Saturday outing-s for the study of field geology 

 and botany, this club was the pioneer in this vicinity of the kind of 

 study which happily now seems to be fast becoming popular. A 

 number of persons who were members of this association in their 

 younger years are now holding positions in the United States Geo- 

 logical Survey or other departments of the Government, or in the 

 capacity of curator or instructor are connected with large museums, 

 colleges, or schools in different parts of the country, thereby having 



Field Class in Zoologv. Looking fok Shork Life among the Bowlders at Woods 



Hole. 



opportunities to continue their favorite lines of work, to spread a 

 knowledge of the things about them, and to induce in others tastes 

 such as were fostered in them while connected with the Barton Chap- 

 ter of the Agassiz Association. 



Since closing the four-years' course in botany Dr. Greenleaf has 

 repeated the lessons on vegetable morphology and physiology and 

 those on systematic botany. Finding the class not so well pre- 

 pared as in former years, instead of continuing the third course of 

 the series, he has given a set of fifteen lessons on the elemen- 

 tary structure and function <»f iloworing ]ilants, as he l)elieved 



