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AQASSIZ ASSOCIATION 



Established 1875 lucorporaoea, Massttcuusetts, Ib»j lucorpi^ruttjd, Coouectlcut, l»lu 



Our Meriden (Connecticut) Chapter. 



Our Chapter has held a number of 

 afternoon zvork meetings besides evening 

 meetings for business and reports. At 

 these work meetings some have used the 

 microscope to observe the Protozoa, min- 

 ute worms and Crustacea in the jars of 

 water in the laboratory ; others have stud- 

 ied the stones in the cabinets and identi- 

 fied some of the unnamed specimens while 

 others have worked on insects. 



Caroline T- Hitchcock. 



twenty-fonr good sketches and seven 

 pag-es of closely written description. 



Elmer D. Call has been studying miner- 

 als and finds it "most interesting" though 

 be expresses his belief that "to some it 

 would not mean anything." Accompany- 

 ing his observations is a list of minerals 

 with his observations regarding each. 



In a paper entitled, "Examine Insect's 

 Wings," Mildred A. Whiting writes : 



"In looking through a small micro- 

 scope at the various insects, I found the 



THE WING OF A DRAGON FLY VIEWED WITH A POCKET MICROSCOPE. 



Accompanying this report is an inter- 

 esting, detailed series of observations with 

 four plates of drawing of the Hydra care- 

 fully made by Ruth Konitz of this Chap- 

 ter. This has been so well done, so ex- 

 tensively detailed that to publish it would 

 take more space than we can give. Here 

 is an unusual case. A report is too 

 good for publication. We congratulate 

 our young friend upon these detailed stud- 

 ies of the Hydra, to which are devoted 



butterfly and the dragon fly the most in- 

 teresting. The various color represented 

 on the butterfly's wings are magnificent 

 and look like small patches of velvet. 

 When I study the wings of the dragon fly, 

 I find that I have before me a splendid 

 display of network. 



"I have secured a Florida grasshopper 

 and one of our little green grasshoppers. 

 In comparing them I find that our little 

 grasshopper, when stretched out, just 



