ures under the great silver maples that overhang the gravel beaclies 

 of the present channel. 



The Society has published a bulletin, which has been issued once 

 in a while, six numbers in all, with a somewhat detailed account of 

 its meetings and lists of interesting plants found. 



Dr. Dana VV. Fellows, president of the Josselyn Society, to whose 

 unwearied eflforts must be ascribed the success of most of its- more 

 recent meetings, stated in a circular sent out by him that the Society 

 should appeal to the following classes of people: 



1. All members, present and past. 



2. All teachers of botany in the schools and colleges of Maine. 



3. All nature lovers who wish to know more of the plants about 

 them, and who live to go afield. 



4. All botanists in other states who are interested in the Maine 

 • flora. 



In every thousand of the population there are one or two to whom 

 it represents the height of bliss to wear field clothes all day, to range 

 the deep wet woods, climb rocky hillsides, follow up the stony banks 

 of streams, hunt over abandoned pastures, or explore delectable 

 bogs. This sort of thing is caviar to the general — neither appre- 

 ciated nor understood. It is to the few who understand, the initiates 

 of nature, that the Josselyn Botanical Society of Maine holds out its 

 hand in invitation, saying, "Come with us, and we will promise you 

 a good time, — every year, four dehghtful and instructive days in 

 the open, with congenial fellow readers, spelling out the wonderful 

 story-book of Nature." 



The secretary of the society is Miss Lena Willis, Naples, Maine, 

 who will be glad to answer inquiries, and will send to anyone desiring 

 it the notice of next summer's meeting. 



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