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specimens were saved and fortunately no lives were lost, 
but the party was forced to travel 1,200 miles, by sea and 
land, in order to get back to civilization. The last 800 
miles of this distance were covered by an overland trip 
from Churchill to Gimli, Manitoba. The botanical 
records of any botanist having previously visited the 
upper west coast of Hudson Bay. ” 
Dr. Hermann Christ, of Basel, Switzerland, well known 
as a fern taxonomist, has recently sold his fern herbarium 
to Prince Roland Bonaparte. Dr. Christ’s herbarium — 
was probably the largest private fern herbarium ever 
accumulated and has been built up during a long period 
to identify new collections of ferns from all over the 
_ world. The herbarium of Prince Roland Bonaparte is 
_ now probably the largest public or private fern herbarium 
in Bie world, containing more than 100,000 specimens. _ 
__Dr. Christ has recently completed his study of ferns 
“ with ‘the publication of his book, “Die Geographie der 
Farnen.” He well deserves the title of ‘Dean Emeritus” 
of fern taxonomists. 
A few members of the Fern Society are 
informal field meet in central Connecticut pe pee 
Saturday, and Sunday, June 16th, 17th, and 18th. | Head- 
quarters will be in Hartford, whence excursions will be 
_ made by steam and trolley. Mr. C. H. Bissell and M 
ne Bigelow will act as guides. Although one purpose 
of the meet is to promote a better acquaintance amor 
eeeben of the Fern Bosiety, other botanists wit b 
oe arrangements for the meet if those who pln to to a 
will send word to Mr. C. H. Bissell, uthington 
