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have been planned by the members of the Committee, especially by 
Mr. L. A. Wheeler of Townshend who has made a special study of 
the Flora of this Valley, to the local points of interest. Hotel rates, 
trains and all details will be sent on application to members of this 
committee. 
A supplementary meeting will follow. Members who decide to 
attend will go on July 3 to the town of Stratton in the wildest part of 
Southern Vermont. Headquarters will be in the abandoned mill 
village known as Grout’s Mills. From this point explorations will 
be made of the forests, bogs, etc. of the surrounding country, especially 
of the wild meadows and bogs which are reported to lie South of 
Grout’s on the Deerfield River, and will be flooded next year by the 
Somerset Dam. It should be thoroughly understood by all planning 
to attend this supplementary trip that it is strictly a camping trip. 
The villages are all abandoned. While there will be a roof over the 
heads of the party, everything else will need to be taken in. This 
includes, of course, bedding, food and clothing. All should be of the 
simplest kind. Everyone who plans to go should be prepared for a 
strictly camp trip, with all its inconveniences, its fun, and its joy of 
the woods. The committee expect that a forest ranger will be with 
the party and will assist in finding trails and in other ways. All the 
members of the Committee visited this county last summer and a 
partial list of plants found appears in the current bulletin of the Ver- 
mont Botanical Club. Persons interested are invited to correspond 
with members of the committee who will send detailed circulars. 
The Vermont Botanical Club extends a most cordial invitation to 
all members of the New England Botanical Club to attend both its 
regular summer meeting and its supplementary meeting. 
Jay G. Unprerwoop, Hartland, Vt. | Joint Committee on Summer 
Leston A. WHEELER, Townshend, Vt. ? Meeting of the Vermont Bo- 
Hanorp G. Ruaa, Hanover, N. H. tanical and Bird Clubs. 
Vol. 15, no. 171, including pages 45 to 64 and plates 100 to 103, was issued 
12 April, 1913. . 
