American Fern Society 103 



The Annual Field Meeting 



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Wert Englewood, New Jersey, July 15, 1914. 



Owing to the unpropitious weather conditions on the 

 day appointed for the field meeting, the attendance at 

 the actual point of rendezvous was somewhat meagre, 

 although quite a number of members of the Society 



were in New York. 



Pennsylvania alone was represented at West Engle- 

 wood by one member. 



On this member then devolves the pleasant duty of 



reporting the proceedings for the Society. 



The editor of the Fern Journal had made every 

 necessary arrangement for the meeting and had notified 



the Germantown members and others interested, of 



the details on the Friday preceding the date of the pro- 

 posed event. Fitful showers ushered in the week, 

 throughout the whole territory adjacent to New York, 

 and on the eve of the day appointed for the field meet- 

 ing the rain fell in torrents so that the proposed trip 

 assumed the complexion of an elimination race in which 

 the honors would go to the swift and the battle to the 



strong. , , , . 



The member from Pennsylvania left Philadelphia on 



the 5:25 train, Wednesday morning, arriving at head- 

 quarters in New York at eight o'clock, and at the Forty- 

 second Street Ferry at half past eight, five minutes before 

 the appointed time for the departure of the train tor 

 the last leg of the journey. No other members were 

 there and on signaling the S. 0. S. wireless "Flatbusn 



6(>8M," established by the editor for the benefit of mem- 

 bers, the member from Pennsylvania learned that 

 owing to weather conditions and the non-arrival of 

 members, the trip had been declared "off" for the 



