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Bird trips were led by Mr. Russel Evans before breakfast 

 each morning, on Saturday and Sunday mornings and Saturday 

 afternoon. The birds seen totaled 93 species, two being new 

 record for these nature outings, bringing the total number of 

 species seen during the fifteen years to 103. One of the birds seen 

 for the first time was the short-billed marsh wren, two birds 

 swung on the grasses and sang so that the whole group had 

 splendid opportunity to see and hear them. The other new rec- 

 ord was of the bald eagle. Two were seen circling over head and 

 one perched on a dead tree in the swamp at the end of Culver 

 Lake with red-wing black birds worrying it. 



Insects were studied, under the leadership of Dr. C. H. Cur- 

 ran, in the woods, fields and the lake and brook. Besides ob- 

 serving a great variety in various stages of development, some 

 members of the party tried photographing them. 



Geology trips were led by Dr. Henry Kummel. This was the 

 tenth year he has led these trips, for which he has always made 

 careful plans so as to see as much of the geological history of 

 Northern New Jersey as possible. The last of the geological 

 trips was to High Point where the main features of the region 

 could be observed, from the mountains of Pennsylvania beyond 

 the Delaware River on the west to the mountain ridges of the 

 Jersey Highlands on the east. 



Botanical trips were about the grounds and in the woods 

 near the inn, led by Dr. Graves; and to a swamp area south 

 of Newton where a small lake was seen, the margins yellow with 

 golden club, Orontium aquaticum, and water buttercup. Ran- 

 unculus delphinifolius. In the woods beautiful plants of the 

 showy orchid. Orchis spectalilis were seen. Sunday morning a 

 trip w^as made to the Stokes State Forest. Near the forest on a 

 rather barren bank were many plants of lupine, Lupinus peren- 

 nis, and above at the top of the bank two scrub oaks, Quercus 

 ilicifolia and Q. prinoides. The crest of the mountains in the 

 Forest bears a pitch pine-chestnut oak association in which 

 many pink lady's slippers, Cypripedium acaule, and birds-foot 

 violet, Viola pedata, were found. On the slopes lower down the 

 hemlocks and red oaks were the dominant trees with quanti- 

 ties of the fringed polygala. Poly gala paucifolia, growing along 

 the road side. Still lower was swampy ground with red maples 

 and elms. 



