4 JUNE IN FRANCONIA. 
ing out some rarity —sedges and willows 
were the special desiderata — which the pro- 
fessional collectors seemed in danger of pass- 
ing without notice. All in all, we were a 
queer set. How the Latin and Greek poly- 
syllables flew about the dining-room, as we 
recounted our forenoon’s or afternoon’s dis- 
coveries! Somebody remarked once that the 
waiters’ heads appeared to be more or less 
in danger; but if the waiters trembled at 
all, it was probably not for their own heads, 
but for ours.? 
Our first excursion — I speak of the four 
who traveled on foot — was to the Franconia 
Notch. It could not well have been other- 
wise; at all events, there was one of the four 
1 Just how far the cause of science was advanced by 
all this activity I am not prepared to say. The first orni- 
thologist of the party published some time ago (in The 
Auk, vol. v. p. 151) a list of our Franconia birds, and the 
results of the botanists’ researches among the willows 
have appeared, in part at least, in different numbers of 
the Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club. As for the 
lepidopterist, I have an indistinct recollection that she 
once wrote to me of having made some highly interest- 
ing discoveries among her Franconia collections, — sev- 
eral undescribed species, as well as I can now remember ; 
but she added that it would be useless to go into particu- 
lars with a correspondent entomologically so ignorant. 
