You were lately told in ST. NICHOLAS, I hear, about a curious lace-leaf that grows in a far-off corner of the world called Madagascar. Well, the Little School-ma’am asks me to show you now this picture of another queer plant, which, she says, is a near neighbor to the lace-leaf, for it is found in the marshes along the coast of Madagascar, and it is known as the pitcher plant. [Illustration] At the end of each leaf, which narrows to a mere stalk at the tip, it carries a little vegetable vase very like a pitcher with lid and all complete. And this curious cup is indeed a pitcher, given to the plant for the express purpose of keeping its leaves well supplied with moisture; for travelers report that they have frequently found quite a quantity of water in those queer little natural cups. Besides, they have big ears, so of course they’re little pitchers. The Deacon says that, according to all accounts, Madagascar must be a sort of palace of the vegetable kingdom. [Illustration: The Agassiz Association SIXTY-FOURTH REPORT.] A FINAL WORD ABOUT THE BADGE. Since Mr. Hayward went out of business, Mr. N. M. Shepard, 85 Nassau street, N. Y., has consented to succeed him as our badge-manufacturer. He is quite enthusiastic in the matter, and has designed some very pretty badges, which seem to us a decided improvement upon the styles shown in the hand-book. The scarf-pin and lace-pin are most attractive, because least noticeable,—which is a paradox. For further information communicate with Mr. Shepard, whose address is given above. A FRIENDLY WORD FROM PRINCE KRAPOTKINE. It is a pleasant thought that even those men whose personal experience of sorrow has led them to take dark views of life in general can find in our Association something worthy their commendation—something to be built up, rather than destroyed. Would that we could extend our brotherly influence as widely as Prince Krapotkine suggests in the following extract from his article, “What Geography Ought To Be,” published in “The Nineteenth Century” for December, 1885: “Another feature to be introduced in our schools ought to be mentioned here. I mean the exchange, between schools, of correspondence on geographical subjects and of their natural science collections. This feature, already introduced in several schools of the United States by the ‘Agassiz Association,’ can not be too warmly advocated. It is not enough to collect specimens of rocks, plants, and animals from its own limited regions. Each village school ought to have collections from everywhere; not only from all parts of its own country, but from Australia and Java, Siberia and the Argentine Republic. It can not purchase them, but it may have them—it can have them in exchange for its own collections, from schools scattered everywhere on the surface of the globe.