Rhodora | 
JOURNAL OF 
THE NEW ENGLAND BOTANICAL CLUB 
Vol. 12. December, 1910. No. 144. 
THE USE OF CORRUGATED PAPER BOARDS IN DRYING 
PLANTS. 
J. FRANKLIN COLLINS. 
AT a recent meeting of the New England Botanical Club the writer 
spoke briefly of a method of drying plants that he had used during 
the preceding season under certain particularly adverse conditions. 
Considerable interest in the possibilities of the method was shown by 
the members present, and numerous questions of a practical nature 
were asked as to details and results. Partly because this method 
appears not to be generally known, and partly because it has certain 
commendable time- and labor-saving features that will appeal to all 
active collectors, as well as to those who have but little time for the 
work, the following account of it is here given. 
During the discussion of the matter at the meeting the fact (pre- 
viously unknown to the writer) developed that at least three other 
members of the Club had, within two years, been using a some- 
what similar method (at least as to certain details) in their own field 
work. Since this meeting the writer has undertaken a few experi- 
ments to determine the practical value of certain theoretically in- 
teresting details that were brought out by the discussion mentioned. 
It is not the purpose to enter into details of these experiments, nor 
into unimportant features of the drying process, but merely to explain 
briefly its essential points. Any collector can easily modify or 
elaborate these to suit certain special conditions, or to please his 
own whims. 
The special advantages of the new method, when compared with 
the old, that will appeal to all whose time is very limited, are (1) that 
