[2 JOIKNAI, Ol" MAIN' ' "• \ ITIIOUJC.ICAI, SOCIKTY. 



Thk Maink Socikty iuk Tin: Advancemknt of Science. 

 Div. I. Urnitholo>;y. 

 Div. 2. Botany. 



(a) Moss aiul Lichen chapters. 



(/') I'ern chapter, etc. 



etc 



etc 



Each division to elect its \n\\\ officers and conduct its own 

 affairs, publish its own journal, or it might l>e thoujjht best for the 

 society to publisli a journal with departments and editors (or each 

 division. It seems to me that the cau^e of science would receive a 

 new impetus in the old Pine Tree State by a union of all naturalists 

 in a society such as I have]_very briefly outlined. 



Will not your society take the initiative and issue a call for a 

 meeting to be held in Portland the third day after Thanksgivinyj. 

 or following the meeting of the Maine Ornithological Society? Pos- 

 siblv the Portland society will unite with you in issuing thi^ call. It 

 miglit be well to have the call signed by naturalists throughout the 

 state, thus giving the movement all the prestige possible, from the 

 start. 



I am much pleased with the Joirnai. and have read every 

 word in the three numl>ers received. Vour two articles in the Sep- 

 tember number are particidarly interesting. How I enjoyed the 

 trip, in company Vith jMr. .\rthur Norton, to Hradbury. Matinicus. 

 and Metinic islands! I shall not soon forget that colony of big Blue 

 Herons on Bradbury. 'and Herring Culls on No Mans Land. No 

 need \if a fog horn at Matinicus harVwr. The lK)om of their many 

 voices was a welcome sound to our straining ears as we groped 

 about ill the den.se fog. hunting for Matinicus. 



Warkkn. Sept. 2(\ 1907. Norman \V. Li:rmoni> 



Lkast Bittkrn at LrnKC— I have l>een confined to the house 

 some time by illness and have not been able to gather much, but on 

 November 13th a Least Bittern was brought in to me. that had Ix^en 

 captured on the l)each at Lubec Narrows. I did not think much 

 about it at the time, but have since noticed in Knight's bulletin that 

 it is reported as ''rare." ^- " Li.\rk. 



LUBIX . Nov "I IW07. 



