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mens and spoke briefly on some new species and vari- 
eties recently published in Rhodora. 
€ meeting was arranged by Mr. Ware, to whom 
thanks are due for a meeting that was exceedingly inter- 
esting and profitable in spite of the fact that the more 
popular parade in honor of General Joffre made travel 
through the streets of Boston somewhat difficult. 
E. J. Winstow. 
Mrs. Ella J. C. Hurd died in April at Daytona, Fla., 
aged 74 years. It had been her habit to divide the 
year among Florida, Washington, D. C., Huntington, 
L. I., and Hartland, Vt. Natural history was among 
her dearest interests and she did much to encourage 
the study of it by others. She is said to have started 
fern study at Hartland (where, it will be remembered, 
the first Vermont station for the male fern was dis- 
covered), by her example and the loan of books; and 
she made valuable gifts of books and specimens to ihe 
local nature club. She bequeathed her old house at 
Huntington, L. I., where she was born, to the local 
historical society. One room in it is to be used as a 
natural history museum, and the nucleus of its collec- 
tions will be some 200 specimens of butterflies which 
she herself had collected and in the mounting of which 
She did exquisite work, 
Wanted to exchange Blechnum brasiliense, Cyrtom- 
tum falcatum, Pteris Wimsettii, Dryopteris mollis, 
Trichomanes Petersii, Tr. radicans, Asplenium Bradley, 
A. Pinnatifidum, Adiantum Capillus-Veneris, and other 
ferns and orchids from the Southeastern United Staies : 
for European, African, or Japanese ferns—herbarium 
“pecimens. Also have old volumes of Bird Lore to sell 
“r exchange for fern literature.—E. W. Graves, Long 
Island, Ala, 
