Most of the Josselyn members are amateurs, but there are always 

 enough experts to lead the expeditions, and give advice and assist- 

 ance to beginners. Helpful members in the earlier years were our 

 quiet and courteous first president, Mr. Lane, Miss Kate Furbish, 

 who has made Maine botany a life study, and whose energy and en- 

 thusiasm never flagged as long as health permitted her to attend, 

 Prof. Leslie A. Lee of Bowdoin College, who took great interest in 

 the Society and attended whenever possible, Mr. and Mrs. Ora W. 

 Knight, interested in many kinds of natural history, Mrs. G. D. B. 

 Pepper, a true lover of all growing things, Rev. B. P. Snow, and 

 others. 



It has been the custom to spend about four days at the selected 

 spot. In the earlier years it was usual to divide the days between 

 indoor meetings and field excursions. Later the call of the open 

 was heard more loudly, and all the days were given to the field, leav- 

 ing evenings for business meetings, and one or two botanical papers 

 or talks. Among the many botanists who have had part in the 

 programs have been Prof. J. Franklin Collins of Brown University 

 and Mr. Edward B. Chamberlain on the subject of mosses. Dr. 

 Lincoln W. Riddle of Wellesley College and Mr. George K. Merrill 

 on lichens. Prof. A. B. Seymour on fungi, Mr. A. A. Eaton and Dr. 

 Dana W. Fellows on ferns. Rev. A. B. Hervey and Mr. Frank S. 

 Collins on marine algae, Mr. Austin Carey on forestry. Miss Kate 

 Furbish and Prof. Fernald on plant distribution. Prof. Fernald, 

 who knows more about Maine plants than any person who lives or 

 ever did live, has never failed when present to give a talk illustrated 

 with herbarium sheets about the special flora of the region being 

 visited, or plants recently added to the Maine list, or some other 

 immediately appropriate topic. 



The Society counts in its membership a number of persons living 

 outside the State, most of whom were born in Maine, like Prof. J. 

 Franklin Collins, Mr. E. B. Chamberlain, Mr. Clarence H Knowl- 

 ton. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph C. Bean, Dr Susan P. Nichols of Oberlin 

 College, and Prof. Fernald. Others are interested in Maine botany 

 through summers spent here, like Mr. Edward L. Rand, author of 

 the Flora of Mt. Desert Island. 



Nor is the interest of the Josselyn excursions confined entirely to 

 botany. One member is Mr. James H. Emerton, the specialist on 

 spiders, who has been a frequent attendant at the meetings. There 

 is always someone, like Mr. A. H. Norton of the Portland Society 

 of Natural History, who is acquainted with birds, and who, when 

 in the deep woods in the Dead River country we surprise a little 

 bird fluttering in and out of her nest, and she lays an egg between 

 two of our peeps into it, is able to tell us authoritatively that she is 

 the hermit thrush. The butterfly hunter and the photographer are 

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