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t>reviously existing here, and on February 5th held our first 

 regular meeting. With one exception, meetings have been 

 held once in two weeks since then. Fourteen members were 

 registered at our organization, and since that time our growth 

 has been steady. We have registered on our books up to date 

 one hundred and forty-two names. At first our meetings were 

 held in a room in the high-school building; but, as our mem- 

 bership increased, we felt the need of more convenient quar- 

 ters, and accordingly in September we hired a hall on Main 

 street, where we have our cabinets and hold our meetings. 

 We have had built two cabinets 4ft.x7ftxl2 in. to hold our large 

 collections of minerals, shells, birds, bottled specimens, etc. 

 We have also a valuable herbarium of over five hundred 

 specimens. In addition to these we have a few magazines 

 and pamphlets, and hope some day to own a good library. On 

 May 28th we celebrate with appropriate exercises and great 

 success the birthday of Agassiz. On that occasion we had on 

 exhibition our collections, both individual and collective. At 

 our meetings members are encouraged to bring in reports of 

 observations, items of scientific interest found in papers and 

 magazines, specimens of various kinds, etc. The principal 

 exercises of the evening consist of essays or debates, varied 

 occasionally by the introduction of a mock trial or a mock 

 senate. Last autumn a committee was appointed to investi- 

 gate the mineral wealth of Rollstone, where the granite- 

 quarries are, and they presented not long since a very inter- 

 esting report of their researches. In the spring we shall 

 expect a ; similar report from a committee appointed to inves- 

 tigate Pearl Hill, another of our landmarks. During the 

 spring and summer, in addition to our bi-weekly meeting, we 

 had several field excursions, when we took long walks into 

 the country. Early in July a picnic was held at a lake a few 

 miles from here. While the greater part of our members are 

 young people from the schools, mostly the high-school, how- 

 ever we have several teachers and some of the city's mer- 

 chants in our ranks. NELLIE F. MARSHALL, Secretary. 



Valuable libraries and reading-rooms are founded 

 in connection with the A. A. 



Montreal, Canada. 



We have a splendid cabinet, six feet high, three feet wide, 

 and two feet deep, containing forty-eight drawers, twenty- 



