THE AG ASS I Z ASSOCIATION 



With Our Local Chapters. 



In the January number of Tiiii Glidi, 

 TO Nature extended reference was 

 made to our Five Fires Chapter of 

 Greenwich. The recently elected of- 

 ficers of this Chapter are: President, 

 Mrs. C. D. Lanier; Vice-President, Ed- 

 win W. Lewis ; Recording Secretar}-, 

 Becky Lanier ; Corresponding Secre- 

 tary, Robert Lewis ; Treasurer, Roger 

 Cameron Edson ; Curator of Collec- 

 tions, George L. Storm, Jr. 



The Putnam Chapter of the Green- 

 wich Academy has recently reorgan- 

 ized with the following officers : Pres- 

 ident, Bethiah F. Waterman ; Vice- 

 President, Louise Brush ; Recording 

 Secretary, Constance Taylor; Corres- 

 ponding Secretary, Amolie Scholer- 

 mann ; Treasurer, Elizabeth Richard- 

 son. 



A second Chapter, known as the 

 Putnam Junior Chapter, has also been 

 organized in the Greenwich Academy. 

 Of this Chapter the President is Con- 

 stant MacRae ; Vice-President, Elea- 

 nor Pier ; Secretary, Elizabeth Ander- 

 son ; Treasurer, Margaret Houston. 



A Chapter organized in the Rogers 

 School of Stamford has elected as its 

 President, Frank Hickey ; Vice-Presi- 

 dent, Vincent Smith ; Recording Secre- 

 tary, Thomas Butler; Corresponding- 

 Secretary, Hattie Coblentz ; Treasurer, 

 John Greaney. 



Recent Additions to Our Membership. 



Corresponding : 



Winifred Sackville Stoner, Jr., Wil- 

 mington, North Carolina. 

 Mr. Isaac O- Frederick, Harleysville, 



Pennsylvania. 

 W^illiam Pratt McLaren, Stamford, 



Connecticut. 

 Mr. William R- Lodge, Cuyahoga Falls, 



New York. 

 Miss Barbara Schmidt, Harrison, 

 Sustaining: 



New York. 

 Mr. Ludwig Schwiers, Lower Lake, 

 California. 

 Mr. Herbert H. Miller, Norwood, 



Massachusetts. 

 Mr. Louis Agassiz Shaw, Peterboro, 



New Hampshire. 



Item from a Local Newspaper 



Dr. Edward F. Bigelow, of .\rcAdiA, 

 entertained the Holy Name Society of 

 St. Catherine's church, of Riverside, on 

 Monday evening at Welcome Reception 

 Room. Dr. Bigelow's lecture was one of 

 the most interesting and instructive he has 

 thus far given at ArcAdiA. Father Cole- 

 man made some remarks pertaining to the 

 Agassiz motto Per Naturam .\d Deum 

 which is a sermon in itself- .\bout fifty 

 were present. A fine musical program 

 was rendered. Scherzo by Mendelssohn, 

 Marche ]\lignonne by Poldini were the 

 selections pla}ed by Miss Viola Worrell 

 at the piano Miss Demarest delighted 

 the guests with the following songs : 



Winter Song Fay Foster 



Shepherd Cradle Song Somervell 



I Hear You Calhng Me Marshall 



The Moon Drops Low Cadman 



The Naughty Chrysanthemum .... Saltes 

 — Grecni^'ich Xcws and Graphic. 



The Bureau of Fisheries is experi- 

 menting with raising shad in ponds as 

 a fresh-water fish. Results thus far 

 are encouraging, the young fry mak- 

 ing about twice the growth as in the 

 ocean. 



Snakes and the Mexican War. 



Troubles along the Mexican boun- 

 dary have resulted in a peculiar snake 

 condition. W'e find it difficult to ob- 

 tain large specimens of the western 

 diamond-back rattlesnake, owing to 

 the fear of collectors to venture within 

 that bullet-infested region. A collector 

 in Texas who zig-zags back and forth 

 across the boundary line wrote us re- 

 cently as follows : "I can't catch any 

 big rattlesnakes now. On my last trip 

 the only thing I got was a collection of 

 bullet holes through my new Ford car. 

 They said they didn't shoot at me, but 

 this didn't make me feel any better." 

 The collector mentioned brings in as 

 many as two hundred rattlers in a 

 week's trip ! He does not bother to 

 pick up specimens under four and a 

 half feet in length ; and many of them 

 are over six feet long and twelve inches 

 in circumference. These big rattlers 

 seem imbued with the fighting spirit of 

 the region. When first placed on ex- 

 hibition they rattle continuously for 

 hours. The Texas collectors sell their 

 rattlesnakes in novel fashion, charging 

 not according to the length of the indi- 

 vidual. After selecting specimens of 

 the required size they weigh them, and 

 sell them at thirty cents per pound! 

 — "N. Y. Zoological Bulletin." 



