62 “AMERICAN FERN JOURNAL 
Set aside for printing catalog of the Herbarium................ 25.00 
Set aside for Herbarium supplies by 1919 Budget.............. 10.00 
ar Fund available for regular use.................. 71.58 
$186.00 
Special Fund created by Life Memberships and Transfers from the Emer- 
gency Fund. 7 
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$128.97 
Respectfully submitted, 
J. G. UNpERwoop, Treasurer 
Kenneth Bradford Laird was born in Brockton, 
Massachusetts, in 1893. He attended the public schools 
of that town and early showed an interest in plant life. 
During his summers, which were spent at Pocasset, 
Massachusetts, he devoted much time to collecting. 
This love for collecting and knowing plants was always 
characteristic of him. He entered Massachusetts Agri- 
cultural College in the autumn of 1912. While a stu- 
dent here, he specialized in botany and distinguished 
himself by his good work in all his studies. Encouraged 
by Professor A. Vincent Osmun, Laird became especially 
interested in ferns and other cryptogams. It was the 
good fortune of the writer to be closely associated with 
him during his four years in college and “Kek” Laird 
is a friend never to be forgotten. After graduating | 
from M. A. C. in 1916, Laird became a teacher of 
botany in the high school of Hartford, Connecticut. 
Here he remained one year, doing excellent work, when 
he was appointed instructor in botany at New Hamp- 
shire State College. An industrious and conscientious 
worker himself, he required his students to show 2 
similar industry. Laird joined the army in the summer 
of 1918, being attached to the Sanitary Corps. While 
