Harty Days or THE FERN Socrety 35 
for July 1896, contained an account of the discovery of 
Aspidium simulatum by Raynal Dodge with Plate i, a 
drawing of this newly discovered fern. In the same 
number was a paragraph on Aspidium cristatum « mar- 
ginale by Geo. E. Davenport. With the issue for July 
1898 began A. A. Eaton’s series of articles on the Equise- 
tums. This ran through seventeen numbers and with 
the accompanying distribution of illustrative material, 
was one of the notable events of the history of the Soci- 
ety. Perhaps a matter of still greater popular interest 
was the series of fern floras of the states. Beginning in 
January 1903 with the flora of Louisiana by W. N. Clute 
and R. S. Cocks the series continued with Texas by Jul- 
ian Reverchon, Iowa by T. J. and F. L. Fitzpatrick, 
Washington by J. B. Flett, New York by B. D. Gilbert, 
California by §. B. Parish, Florida by A. H. Curtiss, 
Kentucky by Sadie F. Price, Montana by T. J. Fitzpat- 
- rick, Georgia by R. M. Harper, Vermont by W. W. Egg- 
leston, Connecticut by C. H. Bissell, Ontario by A. B. 
Klugh, Maine by Dana W. Fellows, Ohio by Lewis S. 
Hopkins, Pennsylvania by W. A. Poyser, Indiana by F. 
C. Greene, Michigan by C. K. Dodge, and Illinois by 
KE. J. Hill, 
The establishment of a Society Herbarium was first 
suggested by A. A. Eaton in his address upon assuming 
- the presidency in 1899. He assumed the work of Cura- 
tor and continued it until his death ten years later, when 
our present Curator, L. 8. Hopkins, was appointed. So 
there have been but two occupants of this office in twen- 
ty years. 
In June, 1903, I attended a meeting of the Josselyn 
Botanical Society in Skowhegan, Maine. At this time 
the Bulletin was running a series of photographs and 
short biographical sketches of well known fern students. 
And so it happened that I was able to identify a gentle- 
man whose keen spectacled eyes were constantly search- 
