HALLIE J. PERKINS, LYNCHBURG, VIRGINIA.--In forming your Natural History Society you may include any friends you choose. Whether or not they are subscribers to YOUNG PEOPLE makes no difference. You will find it a good plan to read the correspondence in YOUNG PEOPLE at your meetings. Be sure to send your reports.
H. F. L.--To have beautiful autumn leaves you must take pains to gather perfect ones, of rich colors and pretty shapes. You may preserve them by passing over the freshly gathered leaves a warm iron, on which you have rubbed bees-wax, or you may press the leaves between the pages of an old book, and when dry, coat them with very thin varnish, put on with a soft camel's-hair brush. The secret of pressing flowers and ferns successfully is in laying them immediately in a dark place under a weight, and changing the papers over them as these become moist.
Fred Gutyalin, 3 East Forty-seventh Street, New York City, withdraws from exchange list.
Daisy Rollins's address is Post-office Box 186, Columbia, Missouri, not Columbus, as published. Write to her until September 13.
Some of our correspondents have sent such silly _noms de plume_ in answer to puzzles that we have really felt ashamed to print them. In two instances the names sent were inadmissible. Please select sensible fictitious names when you do not desire your own to appear.
Correct answers to puzzles have been received from "Paxton," "Will O. Tree." "_Unknown_," E. Pearl Lisk, John H. Busch, H. Elkena, "Comet," A. A. Beebe, Alice M. Walther, Annetta Jackson, Lee Marks, "School-Boy," Willie J. Baldwin, Eva J. Ward, H. N. Pleis, Jemima Beeston.
1.--1. Appertaining to kings. 2. To cut off. 3. Donated. 4. A skilled person. 5. Slow time in music.
2.--1. To stop. 2. An artist's picture rest. 3. Out of the true course. 4. An old-fashioned vehicle. 5. A girl's name.
3.--1. Sour. 2. A collection of laws. 3. Unemployed. 4. Far below the surface.
Place the names of four animals in such order that their initial and final letters read downward will spell the names of two others.
Behead to discourse, and have a movement of the arm; again, and have either of two.
Behead a fraud, and have warmth; again, and have to take food.
My first is in forest, but not in field. My second's in breastplate, not in shield. My third is in English, not in Dutch. My fourth is in little, not in much. My fifth is in inn, not in hotel. My sixth is in scream, and not in yell. My seventh's in blacksmith, not in miller. My whole is a massive pointed pillar.