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by correspondence, and with limited funds. 

 In spite of these limitations, it is the 

 opinion of the officers of the federation 

 that it will fill an important need and 

 render a valuable service. They confi- 

 dently appeal on this basis, too, for the sup- 

 port of associations which have not yet 

 already joined the federation, with the 

 hope of beginning the work outlined at an 

 early date. H. W. Tyler, Chairman, 



Association of Mathematics Teachers in 

 'New England. 



R. E. Dodge, 



"New York State Science Teacliers' Asso- 

 ciation, 



P. N. Peters, 

 Missouri Society of Teachers of Mathe- 

 matics and Science. 

 J. T. EORER, 

 Association of Teachers of Mathetnatics 

 i in the Middle States and Maryland. 



C. R. Mann, Secretary, 

 Central Association of Science and Math- 

 ematics Teachers. 



NEW ENGLAND FEDERATION OF NATURAL 

 HISTORY SOCIETIES 



The annual meeting of the New England 

 Federation of Natural History Societies was 

 held in Boston on Friday and Saturday, April 

 lY and 18. The result of the election was the 

 following board of officers for the coming 

 year: president, John Ritchie, Jr., Boston 

 Scientific Society; vice-presidents, Arthur H. 

 Norton, Portland (N. H.) Society, Norman S. 

 Eaton, Pall Elver (N. H.) Society; secretary, 

 J. H. Emerton, Cambridge Entomological 

 Club, ajid treasurer, Miss Delia I. Griffin, 

 Fairbanks Museum, St. Johnsbury, Vt. Two 

 councillors for each of the New England 

 states were named. The principal business of 

 the federation was the arrangement of the de- 

 tails of the Mount Washington field meeting, 

 July 1-8 of the present year. The federation 

 will assemble at the Summit House on Wed- 

 nesday evening, July 1, for its own meeting. 

 The other evenings will be devoted to the 

 meetings of the states, Friday being pre- 

 empted by Vermont, at which time the 



regular summer joint-meeting of the Vermont 

 Botanical Club and the Vermont Bird Club 

 will be held. Features of the field-meeting 

 will be rambles to the stations of the alpine 

 flora and the geological exposures, trips into 

 the ravines and along the ridges and evening 

 meetings where papers illustrated by the 

 lantern will be presented. It promises to be 

 an important meeting, about twenty-five of 

 the New England societies promising repre- 

 sentatives. Members of the Appalachian 

 Mountain Club which is to hold its regular 

 field-meeting at the Profile House at the same 

 time will be in attendance and it is proposed 

 to make the summit the objective point for an 

 excursion of Section E of the American Asso- 

 ciation for the Advancement of Science, which 

 will begin its sessions on Monday, June 29, at 

 Hanover. Mount Washington, therefore, 

 promises to be the scene of active scientific 

 gatherings during the early summer. 



In connection with the annual meeting in 

 Boston there was a two-days' exhibition of 

 material and methods. Much of this had rela- 

 tion to the help given by local societies to the 

 public systems of education. The Barton 

 Chapter of the Agassiz Association, repre- 

 sented by Misses Cherrington and Clapp 

 showed many specimens of mosses. Miss Cora 

 H. Clarke, many specimens of galls, Mr. 

 Emerton, his portable comparison collection of 

 spiders and the Lawrence Society, of New 

 Hampshire, a collection of local birds' nests. 

 The Worcester Society, of New Hampshire, 

 exhibited its bird sets for public school 

 teachers, its moss specimens for its free 

 classes in botany and some local collections. 

 It showed also photographs of the Dodge col- 

 lection of birds, a splendid special one of 

 Worcester County, valued at ten thousand dol- 

 lars, given to it by Mrs. E. H. Dodge, a gift 

 that was supplemented by the works of 

 Audubon, presented to the society by Thomas 

 H. Dodge, one of the foremost of Worcester's 

 wealthy citizens. Architects' drawings were 

 also shown by the society of the new home that 

 the society hopes to have, a building that will 

 place the natural history interests of the city 

 on the same high plane as those made possible- 

 for art by the recent Salisbury bequests. 



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