Before the idea was mentioned in Young People a society had been started in New York to collect all sorts of things, such as preserved sea-weed, dried grass, iron, gold, and other ores—in fact, everything except postage stamps. We hold meetings in the fall, at which all the collections are placed in the society's cabinet, to be lent for a while. I am the secretary, and will be happy to give full particulars to any one who may write to me inclosing a three-cent stamp. No girls are admitted, nor any persons residing out of New York State for over three months at a time.
John R. Blake,
Secretary N. Y. Chapter C, Agassiz Association.
Although you appear to have anticipated our Young People's Natural History Society, we will be pleased to have you become a branch of it, if you wish to do so. Your rule with regard to girls seems to us rather arbitrary. Girls make good working members of such societies, and their presence adds much animation to the meetings.
It may perhaps be interesting for your readers to know with how much pleasure Harper's Young People is welcomed in far-away countries such as Holland, and how even a Dutch girl is interested in its pretty stories and engravings. I await its arrival as eagerly as any American boy or girl, and the Post-office Box is one of its greatest attractions. Perhaps some of your readers would like to have photographs representing views from Holland. I will send them in exchange for any American pictures. If correspondents have a special desire for views from particular places of Holland, they will please state it in their letters, and I will try to satisfy their demands.
E. Molewater,
Villa Duna, Scheveningen, Holland.
The following exchanges are offered by correspondents:
Postmarks from Ohio, Indiana, and Michigan, for postmarks from any other State, or for Indian relics.
Eugene Hunter, Wauseon, Ohio.