REPORTS. 95 



The next letter shows how to raise money when it 



is needed. 



Buffalo, N. Y. 



Our report is somewhat tardy, owing to an entertainment 

 given for our microscope fund. We realized $85, which, with 

 the amount on hand, gives us about $100 to invest in a good 

 instrument. Our chapter has increased to twenty-four active 

 and two honorary members. Owing to the lateness of the 

 season, we have collectively made but one excursion, though 

 individually we have not been idle. CORA FREEMAN. 



The girls are as enthusiastic workers as the boys. 



We are pupils of the Waco Female College, Texas. About 

 four years ago our teacher began to teach us to love nature, 

 and, to keep our eyes and ears open, often took us to the 

 woods. Oh, how we enjoyed those rambles! Such rides to and 

 from the woods! We soon got a collection, and determined to 

 form a Natural History Society. We were deliberating on a 

 name when, to our great joy, your first article was read to 

 us. We forthwith adopted the name, constitution, and by- 

 laws. Since then we have varied with wind and weather, but 

 have now launched upon a smooth-sailing sea. We have 

 twenty-six members. Some of our prominent citizens have 

 joined us. By carefully hoarding our dues of admission, etc., 

 we have been able to buy a fine microscope, a number of shells, 

 and a few books and pictures. We have a book in which the 

 librarian pastes articles and pictures selected by some one 

 member every week. We have another into which the secre- 

 tary transcribes the papers read by the members before the 

 society, and also articles of interest which cannot be cut from 

 valuable books. The President always appoints one member 

 to ask three questions to be answered at the next meeting. 

 The correct answers are copied into our manuscript scrap- 

 book. Oh, we have so much to say to you, and to ask, I 

 hardly know where to begin or leave off! We have a speci- 

 men of the Texas centipede for exchange, also a stinging 

 lizard and a horned frog. JENNY WISE. 



Ledyard, Conn. 



We live far apart from one another, and on cold winter 

 evenings it is quite an effort to drive two or three miles to a 

 meeting; but we have held them just the same, with hardly an 



