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THE SUMMER MEETING. 



The Joint Summer Meeting of the Vermont Botanical and Bird 

 Clubs will be held in the West River Valley with headquarters at 

 Townshend Inn, Townshend, Vt., July 1 and 2, 1913. Expeditions have 

 been planned by the members of the committee, especially by Mr. 

 Li. A. Wheeler of Townshend who has made a special study of the flora 

 of this valley, to the local points of interest. Hotel rates, trains, and 

 all details will be sent on application to members of the committee. 



A supplementary meeting will follow. Members who decide to 

 attend will go July 3 to the town of Stratton, in the wildest part of 

 southern Vermont. Headquarters will be in the abandoned mill village 

 known as Grouts Mills. From this point explorations will be made of 

 the forests, bogs, etc., of the surrounding country, especially of the 

 wild meadows and bogs which are reported to lie south of Grouts on 

 the Deerfield River and will be flooded next year by the Somerset Dam. 

 It should be thoroughly understood by all planning to attend this 

 supplementary trip that it is strictly a camping trip. The villages 

 are all abandoned. While there will be a roof over the heads of the 

 party, everything else will be taken in. This includes, of course, 

 bedding, food and clothing. All should be of the simplest kind. Every- 

 one who plans to go should be prepared for a strictly camp trip with all 

 its inconveniences, its fun, and its joys of the woods. The committee 

 expect that a forest ranger will be with the party, and will assist in 

 finding trails. All the members of the committee visited this country 

 last summer, and a partial list of plants found appears in the current 

 bulletin of the Vermont Botanical Club. Persons interested are in- 

 vited to correspond with members of the committee, who will send 

 detailed circular. 

 Jay G. Underwood, Hartland, Vt., ] Joint Committee on Summer 

 Leston a. Wheeler, Townshend, Vt., Lmeeting of Vermont Botanical 

 Harold G. Rugg, Hanover, N. H., I and Bird Clubs. 



