STATE POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. Ill 



butioa of 3Iaiue plants. Mr. Fernald, in his remarks, and bj- means of a 

 speciallj'^ prepai-ed map. pointed out the limits of various groups of plants 

 which creep up into the State from the South, or down from the Nortli. 

 He also emphasized the importance to agriculture of determining the 

 exact geographical limits of the peculiar flora found in the Aroostook 

 valley. 



ORGANIZATION. 



In the afternoon a permanent organization was formed, with the 

 following officers : 



Honorary President: William Wood, M. D., Portland. 



President : Prof. A. L. Lane, Waterville. 



Vice Presidents: Prof. Leslie A. Lee, Brunswick; Miss Kate Furbish, 

 Brunswick; Mrs. Helen Coffin Beedy, 11 Mellen St., Portland; Miss Mary 

 A. Clark, Ellsworth; Mr. Edward L. Rand, 53 State St., Boston, Mass. 



Secretary : Merritt Lvndon Fernald, 41 Langdon St., Cambridge, Mass. 



Assistant Secretary: Mrs. Mary E. Taylor, Portland. 



Treasurer : Miss Ellen M. Cram, Portland. 



Committee on Plant Distribution : M. L. Fernald, Cambridge, Mass. ; 

 Miss Kate Furbish, Brunswick; Miss Lillias Graves, Presque Isle; ]Mrs. 

 C. W. Keyes, Farmington; Clarence H. Kuowlton, Farmingtou. 



Committee on Plant-Lore: Mi-s. H. K. Morrell, Gardiner; Mrs. Helen 

 Coffin Beed}', Portland; H. K. Morrell, Gardiner; J. P. Thompson, 145 

 Park St., Portland; Miss Isabell S. Allen, 1038 Congress St., Portland. 



Committee on Bryophytes : J. Franklin Collins, Brown Universitj-, 

 Providence, R. 1. ; Miss ]Mary A. Clark, Ellsworth ; John Inglee Phinnej', 

 Machias; Edward L. Rand, Boston, Mass.; Prof. W. S. Bayley, Water- 

 ville. 



Committee on Algre : Frank S. Collins, Maiden, Mass. ; Prof. F. L. 

 Harvey, Orouo; Miss E. A. Winslow, Westbrook. 



Committee on Fungi and Lichens : Prof. F. L. Harvey, Orouo ; John 

 K. Parks, Portland; Miss Clara E. Cummings, Welleslej', Mass. 



The direction of the work of the society is in the hands of an executive 

 committee, which consists of the officers and the chairmen of the various 

 committees. 



Tlie name decided upon for the society was the Josselyn Botanical 

 Society of Maine. Thus the societj' hoijes to make better known to the 

 people of the State the name of the first man who made any detailed 

 study of the plants of Maine. John Josselyn spent a portion of the seven- 

 teenth century at Black Point, Scarboro, where, as he sa3-s, he made it 

 his "business to discover, all along, the natural, physical, and chyrurgical 

 rarities of this new found world." Most of his observations were pub- 

 lished in London, in 1672, in his famous book, "Xew England's Rarities 

 Discovered: in Birds, Beasts, Fishes, Serpents and Plants of that Coun- 

 try." 



At this business meeting it was also decided that all persons, who 

 should pay to the treasurer, before the next regular meeting, the sum of 



