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then, that $13.62 a week buys a deal of 

 labor and devotion in the interests of 

 an educational enterprise. 



The steadily widening" orbit of the asso- 

 ciation's influence and work and the con- 

 stantly increasing number of its friends 

 and patrons are the best evidence of a 

 growing- appreciation of the excellence 

 of its purpose. The association is forty 

 years old this summer, but during the 

 last two years it has been entering on 

 what is described as a "new era of en- 

 larged scope as a public institution." 

 Its object is highly meritorious, as few 

 education excursions are more produc- 

 tive of profit and pleasure than deep 

 researches into the mysteries of nature. 

 In its president the association has a 

 tireless and self-sacrificing official to 

 whom great credit is due for progress 

 already made and a prospective that is 

 particularly promising of greater pro- 

 gress to come. — "The Daily Advocate," 

 Stamford Conn., Friday, June 18, 1915. 



Good Work and Good Methods. 



Frankford, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 

 To the Editor : 



As President of Chapter 1054 I send 

 the following report. 



Order of Exercises. 



1. ]\Ieeting called to order by Presi- 

 dent. 



2. Reading of minutes of last meeting 

 by Recording Secretary. 



3. Old or unfinished business of the 

 Chapter. 



4. New business of the Chapter. 



5. Collection of dues. 



6. Discussion of nature subjects. 



7. Fun. 



8. Adjournment. 



The meetings are held every two weeks 

 at the houses of the members in alpha- 

 betical order. At each meeting the mem- 

 bers report on some object of nature 

 that they have seen. The treasurer re- 

 ports once a month. The dues are two 

 cents every meeting. The number of 

 members is limited to ten. 



We have taken several outings. On 

 the first of these we found several arrow- 

 heads and saw many birds. This month 

 we are specially searching for birds. We 

 have arranged to look through the large 

 telescope in the observatory at Haver- 

 ford College. 



Joseph Borxeman. 



Come Now ; Let Us Reason Together. 



It is an astonishing fact that The 

 Agassiz Association has hundreds of 

 members, yes, even thousands if we 

 take into consideration all those that 

 have been enrolled as individual mem- 

 bers or as members of Chapters since 

 the organization was first started, that 

 have not yet become subscribers to 

 The Guide to N.ature. 



It is also equally astonishing that 

 The Guide; to Nature has. hundreds of 

 subscribers that are not members. We 

 may have some on our list that can- 

 not afford to pay a dollar and a half 

 a year, but we are sure that many of 

 our active friends should become 

 members. 



Probably some of our readers will be 

 amazed at the statement that we have 

 so many members that are not sub- 

 scribers, and a large number of sub- 

 scribers that are not members. But 

 they have no more reason for astonish- 

 ment than have the w^orkers here in 

 the Home Office. Let us remedy this 

 amazing situation. Every one who re- 

 ceives this magazine at a dollar a year 

 is getting what costs far more, and 

 that difference is made up by our loyal 

 members and appreciative contribu- 

 tors. Let every one who can possibly 

 do so take more cooperative interest in 

 the work than merely by a subscrip- 

 tion. 



The Naturalist Field Club of the 

 University of Pennsylvania, after some 

 years of inactivity, has been reorgan- 

 ized and has taken on renewed life. 

 The club is now managed entirely by 

 the undergraduates, although gradu- 

 ate students and members of the teach- 

 ing force are eligible to membership. 

 The zoological laboratory of the Uni- 

 versity provides a meeting place and 

 a photographic dark room. 



C. H. Turner prints in the Biological 

 Bulletin (Lancaster, Pennsylvania) a 

 long account of his elaborate experiments 

 on the hearing of the large silk-moths, 

 polyphemus, cecropia, promethea, etc., 

 together with various other smaller 

 moths. He finds that they all hear, and 

 are affected by a wide range of pitch, 

 from below the lowest note of a piano 

 to above the highest. 



