. The Granite monthly, a New Hampshire magazine, devoted to literature, history, and state progress. nt of the year the club makes a pilgrim-age to some place renowned in his-tory, or made famous in literature,and thus socially ends the seasonswork. The president of the club isMrs. Jessie P. Wallace. THE NATURAL SCIENCE CLUB Stands unsurpassed in its department,which is indicated by the name. Or-ganized March 12, 1895, it was simply 76 THE WOMENS CLUBS OF MANCHESTER. a number of ladies banded togetherunder the tutelary care of Mrs. A. for the special study of bot-any. With
. The Granite monthly, a New Hampshire magazine, devoted to literature, history, and state progress. nt of the year the club makes a pilgrim-age to some place renowned in his-tory, or made famous in literature,and thus socially ends the seasonswork. The president of the club isMrs. Jessie P. Wallace. THE NATURAL SCIENCE CLUB Stands unsurpassed in its department,which is indicated by the name. Or-ganized March 12, 1895, it was simply 76 THE WOMENS CLUBS OF MANCHESTER. a number of ladies banded togetherunder the tutelary care of Mrs. A. for the special study of bot-any. With the inspiration whichcomes from united effort, however,the members determined to investi-gate more carefully the mysteries oflife and growth which lie wrappedup in the common manifestationsof Nature. Filled with this spiritthey dev^oted one day in two weeksto the results attained from researchand observation, the same being em-bodied in papers. In the intervalbetween the meetings the members,either singly or in parties, roamedthrough fields and woods collectingspecimens for preservation and for. Mrs. Clara E. of till- Natural Seienee Club. study. It was not to botany, how-ever, that the ladies devoted all theirenergies. The feathered songstersof wood and street were too impor-tant to be passed over, and this isthe third season that, from the earli- est heralds of spring to the last out-rider of the retreating winter, thesenses have been acute to hear thesweet and mellow notes and watchthe changing colors of the inhabi-tants of the air. Forestry has not been excludedfrom the course of instruction, sincelast year and this one also, a specialstudy has been made of trees, theaim of the members being to familiar-ize themselves with the leaves andbark, together with the distinguish-ing features of all our common nativetrees. All the study which has been putupon these subjects is not of a meredesultory and haphazard kind, butrather is it true scientific
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