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AGASSIZ ASSOCIATION 
Established 1875 Incorporated, Massachusetts, 18S2 Incorporated, Connecticut, 1910 
Greenwich Academy Junior Chapter. 
Our junior Greenwich Academy 
Chapter of The Agassiz Association, of 
Greenwich, Connecticut, has reorgan- 
ized, electing the following officers: 
President, Ruth Quackenbush ; Vice- 
President, Virginia Day ; Secretary and 
Treasurer, Margaret Edwards. 
The report is accompanied by letters 
telling of interesting observations. 
From these letters we have selected the 
following, which seems to be the best. 
A Spring Walk. 
BY CONSTANTINE EUGENIE JOHNSTON. 
One day my father took me for a 
walk. He first showed me where a 
tree had been cut down. It had gotten 
wet in some places, and the borer had 
made little holes in the wet wood. You 
could see where the woodpecker had 
pecked through the bark and gotten a 
little worm. 
Father also showed me how to find 
out how the tree fell. You can tell how 
by looking to see which side has most 
bushes broken. 
Then we walked on and father saw 
a hole on the side of the hill by a brook. 
I think it was a woodchuck’s hole. I 
saw where the woodchuck had made a 
little path along the bank. 
The woodchuck’s hole is among the 
rocks. He builds it there because no 
animal can dig between the rocks, and 
besides when the woodchuck’s hole is 
on a hill and the water comes rushing 
down the hillside it will rush in and 
wet the woodchuck’s hole. But when 
the house is in the rocks the water will 
drain out between the cracks. 
Farther on in our walk we saw some 
little field sparrows hopping about in 
the bushes. Field sparrows and most 
of the sparrow family are brown. 
A glint cerulean, as we pass, 
Reveals the peeping blue-eyed grass. 
— Emma Peirce. 
Financial Report of The Agassiz Associa- 
tion, Inc.., 
ArcAdiA : Sound Beach, Connecticut. 
(Accepted by the Board of Trustees at the 
Annual Meeting on Agassiz’s Birthday, 
May 28th, 1920.) 
Summary — Cash Received. 
April 1, 1919, to March 31, 1920. inclusive. 
From The Guide to Nature $4,670.50 
From Contributions to Little Japan.. 1,136.14 
From Members’ Dues, Contributions, 
etc 877.86 
Total $6,684 50 
Summary — Cash Paid. 
April 1, 1919, to March 31, 1920, Inclusive 
For The Guide to Nature $3,286.15 
For Little Japan 2,176.32 
For General Expenses and Improve- 
ments 1,222.03 
Total $6,684.50 
(See Postscript.) 
The above is a correct summary of cash re- 
ceived and paid from April 1, 1919, to March 
31, 1920, inclusive. 
(Signed) Edward F. Bigelow, President. 
Sound Beach, Connecticut. 
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 22nd 
day of April, 1920. 
(Signed) Harry C. Frost, 
Notary Public. 
Auditors’ Statements. 
Stamford, Connecticut. 
This is to certify that I have examined the 
details of which the foregoing is a summary 
and find all to be correct. 
(Signed) Clinton R. Fisher, 
Auditor for the Public. 
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 3rd 
day of May, 1920. 
(Signed) C. E. Thompson, 
Notary Public. 
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I have examined the books of record of The 
Agassiz Association for the year ending March 
31, 1920, and find them well kept. The ex- 
penditures seem to have been made advan- 
tageously and to the best interests of the Asso- 
ciation. 
(Signed) Hiram E. Deats, 
Member of Board of Trustees. 
Address : Flemington, New Jersey. 
May 28, 1920. 
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Postscript : The excess of “received” for 
The Guide to Nature over the “paid” is 
not due to profit but to two factors: (1) 
transfer of a magazine account ($240) to 
Little Japan account and (2) holding up pay- 
ment of magazine expenses to pay longer over- 
