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December 28, 1901, was attended by many members and friends 

 from different towns in the state. In the absence of the President, 

 A. L. Lane, the meeting was called to order by Dr. Dana W. Fellows, 

 chairman of the committee of arrangements, and Prof. Leslie A. 

 Lee of Bowdoin College was made Chairman of the meeting. 



During the afternoon four announced papers and many brief 

 informal reports at roll-call were presented. Mr. Edward B. Cham- 

 berlain, of Vassalboro described in detail a large peat bog in Cum- 

 berland, discussing the ecological and physiological relations of the 

 plants of the different belts of vegetation from the pond at the centre 

 to the wooded margin of the bog. Miss Kate Furbish of Brunswick 

 summarized much of the present knowledge of useful native plants 

 of the State, and furthermore enumerated many species which are 

 justly winning recognition as ornamental plants. Mr. Merritt L. 

 Fernald of Cambridge, Massachusetts, exhibited about fifty of the 

 recently discovered plants of Maine, calling attention to the specific 

 peculiarities of the plants, and emphasizing the relation of these 

 discoveries to our general understanding of laws of plant geography. 

 Rev. B. P. Snow of Yarmouth discussed the functions and work of 

 foliage. 



After the announced papers there was a roll-call of members at 

 which each responded by a brief note or by some suggestion or ques- 

 tion. These responses contained much of interest to the members, 

 that of Dr. D. W. Fellows being specially interesting to readers of 

 Rhodora. Dr. Fellows has corresponded with Mr. Hall, formerly 

 of Shapleigh, Maine, in regard to the occurrence of Camptosorus 

 rhizophyttus in York County ; and it is now established that the 

 specimen of Camptosorus at the University of Maine, supposed to 

 have been found at Shapleigh, grew in western Massachusetts. It 

 is probable, also, that Anemonella thalictroides, reported on the author- 

 ity of the same collection from Shapleigh, was not originally gathered 

 in Maine. 



In the evening Mr. Austin Carey, Forester for the Berlin Lumber 

 Company, and formerly of the Maine Forestry Commission, gave an 

 instructive and encouraging lecture on forestry, with especial refer 

 ence to the conditions in Maine, though illustrated also by compara- 

 tive scenes in the forests of the Pacific Slope, the Great Lake Region 

 and the Black Forest of Germany. — Dora H. Moulton, Secretary, 

 Portland, Maine. 



