IRbodora 
JOURNAL OF 
THE NEW ENGLAND BOTANICAL CLUB 
Vol. 5 February, 1903 No. 50 
AN ECOLOGICAL EXCURSION TO MOUNT KTAADN. 
LE Roy Harris HARVEY. 
(Plate 44.) 
In company with a party,’ representing the Ecological department 
of the Hull Botanical Laboratory of the University of Chicago, it 
was again my great pleasure to visit in August of the past year one 
of the most inaccessible and grandest mountains in New England, 
Ktaadn. 
We took our departure from Stacyville on the fifteenth and spent 
the following day at Lunksoos in preparation for the mountain. 
The seventeenth saw us fairly started on our way and it was to be 
over two weeks before we should again share the hospitality of 
Lunksoos. Our course lay over the old Ktaadn trail as far as 
Sandy Stream Pond tote-road. Here we diverged to the northwest 
traveling along the tote-road for about a mile, then skirting the 
southern shore of Sandy Stream Pond we came to Ross Camps a 
few hundred tyards beyond. From here we followed the new 
Rogers trail, recently cut for pack horses, which leads more directly 
(seven miles) to the South Basin, the site of our camp. Our return 
was over the same route. 
In purpose our visit to the mountain was mainly ecological, espe- 
1 Drs. Henry C. Cowles and Bradley M. Davis, Department of Botany, Univer- 
sity of Chicago; Samuel M. Coulter, Shaw School of Botany, St. Louis; A. F. 
Blakeslee, Department of Botany, Harvard University; John Thompson, Rich- 
mond, Indiana; Horace W. Britcher, Department of Biology, University of Maine, 
Orono; H. G. Barber, New York City; Mrs. Henry C. Cowles, Chicago; Miss 
Laura H. Bevans, Cook County Normal School, Chicago; Miss F. Grace Smith, 
Department of Botany, Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts; Miss Jane 
Stearns, Chicago; Miss Maud L. Bates, Topeka. 
