"APPLICATION FOR A CHARTER.
"We, whose names are on the accompanying card, hereby petition to be recognized as a Chapter of the Agassiz Association. We accept the constitution, we agree to the conditions of membership as explained in the circular from which this form has been detached, and we faithfully promise to do our best work in our several branches of study, and in all ways heartily to support and further the interests of the General Association. Respectfully
____________________________ Secretary."
The only new conditions are the agreement to send an annual report, and to send immediate notice, in case of disbanding. Failure to do the latter causes untold confusion throughout the whole Society, as the disbanded Chapters continue, sometimes for years, to be addressed by the active ones.
YOUNG NATURALIST CLASSIFYING HER FIRST SPECIMEN:
"Poly-omma-tus pseu-darg-io-lus!—Gracious! if a little one like that has such a dreadful name, how can I ever remember the big ones!"