FIELD TRIl' TO NEWFOUNDLAND PLANNED 



The field committee of the Torrey Botanical Club has made 

 arrangements, through the Newfoundland Tourist Bureau, 

 R. H. Tait, Director, British Empire Building, 620 Fifth Ave- 

 nue, New York, for a two weeks trip to western Newfoundland, 

 which if it can be carried out as planned, will offer an unusual 

 excursion, the longest we have attempted, and of scenic and 

 botanical interest comparable with our Shickshock Mountains, 

 Gaspe, Quebec trip of 1937. 



The chief objective would be the Long Range of western 

 Newfoundland, a nunatak area, like that of the Shickshock 

 Mountains, and containing many plants which survived from 

 the last inter-glacial period, because they escaped the effects of 

 the Wisconsin glacial advance. The party might leave Thurs- 

 day, July 7, by train from New York, 2 p.m., to Boston, con- 

 necting at 9:30 p.m.. North Station, with train via St. John, 

 N.B., to Mulgrave, N.S., ferry to Port Hawkesbury, and train 

 to North Sydney, Cape Breton Island, there taking steamer 

 Caribou to Port aux Basques, Newfoundland, arriving Sunday 

 morning, July 10, or leaving New York Sunday afternoon, 2 

 P.M., Boston 9:30, reaching Port aux Basques, Tuesday eve- 

 ning. Or members might drive, allowing three full days, or an 

 evening start and three days, to cover the distance of about 

 1,000 miles by automobile, to North Sydney, where they would 

 leave cars and take the Caribou to Port aux Basques. From 

 Port aux Basques, the plan is to take the Newfoundland Rail- 

 way, about 175 miles, to Deer Lake, and by automobile, over 

 a new dirt road, said to have been finished last summer, to 

 Lomond, on Bonne Bay. This would be headquarters for three 

 or four days, during which, according to weather, we would 

 climb Gros Morne, 2,500 feet, the highest point on the Long 

 Range, and in Newfoundland; and possibly another mountain 

 of about the same height. Motor boats would be used from 

 Lomond, around the branches of Bonne Bay, to reach the near- 

 est points for climbing summits. 



The summits of these mountains have never been reached 

 by any botanist, the only extensive studies, by Prof. M. S. 

 Fernald, of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard l^niversity, and his 

 parties, about 15 years ago, having covered only the slopes. 



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