REPORTS. 99 



Ruckert. A good variety of books may now be found in our 

 library; there are 315 volumes and many hundred magazines 

 and pamphlets. SECRETARY OF CHAPTER 87. 



, Jamaica Plain, Mass. 



The past year has been very encouraging to us. It began 

 rather unfavorably. We were obliged to leave the small house 

 in which we had met. We soon found new quarters in the 

 unoccupied harness-room of a barn; but we had no means of 

 heating it, and when cold weather set in we returned to our 

 old method of meeting at members' houses. But we needed 

 a place we could be sure of, and at last decided to have a small 

 house built. We got up a stock company called the "Agassiz 

 Building Company," and issued one hundred shares of the par 

 value of one dollar. These were quickly taken by our friends, 

 and a house 12x18 feet was built on land belonging to the 

 father of one of our members. It is painted yellow, with 

 olive trimmings, and the roof is rod. We pay rent to the 

 treasurer of the company, and out of this, at the end of the 

 year, five per cent, is paid on the stock, and the remainder 

 is spent in redeeming the shares, so that finally we shall own 

 the house. We have a flagstaff and a flag. The flag has a red 

 cross on a yellow ground with "760" in white on the cross and 

 a red "A" on each side of the upper arm, and is kept flying 

 when we have our meetings. Several of the meetings of the 

 Boston Assembly have been held at the Chapter House. We 

 have quite a collection of minerals, and are adding to it all 

 the time. We built a piazza in front of our house ourselves. 

 We opened it with a reception, June 4, to which about seventy 

 of our friends came not all at once, but between 4.30 and 8.30. 

 We have just had a stove put in, and are preparing for cold 

 weather. Wishing the A. A. success, 



C. S. GREENE. 



Chapters in which both sexes, young- and old, teach- 

 ers and pupils, unite, have been equally successful. 

 Witness the following report from our largest chapter, 

 which has grown up under the affectionate care of Pro- 

 fessor E. Adams Hartwell: 



Fitchburg, Mass. 



We organized, as you know, in January, 1886, our present 

 chapter being formed by the union 'of four smaller chapters 



