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the place in company with a committee of the Circle and 

 seek to devise some means for the preservation of so re- 

 markable an object as this rock reall}' might claim to be. 



On motion of the Secretary, this letter was referred to a 

 Committee consisting of Messrs. C. M. Tracy, B. P. Miidge 

 and Henry F. Shcpard, to report at some future meeting. 



In introducing the Society to the acquaintance of the 

 people of Groveland, the chair made the somewhat customary 

 exposition of its history and purposes. He had had some 

 knowledge of Groveland in former years, when it was only 

 East Bradford, and he added some reminiscences of that pe- 

 riod which naturally connected themselves with to day's 

 proceedings. He said he had been looking for plants to-day 

 but with very indifferent success. At this time we always 

 expect plenty of Asters, but they had proved to be very 

 scarce to day. On the other hand, the Harebell, (^Camjm- 

 nuia rotundifolia) which is hardly known in our southern 

 towns, flourishes here in great abundance. Gentians were 

 freely found, also ; both the fringed ( G. crinitci) and the 

 soapwort species (G^. saponaria) still, no one made com- 

 plaint of lack of plants for study even if certain species were 

 not found, for others w^erc sure to l^e plentiful. The heavy 

 bowlders visited to-day by some of the members had enough 

 growing on them, of most wonderful and curious forms and 

 structure, to employ a competent naturalist in close study 

 for ten years. But such as these were of unpretending and 

 modest look, as well as of extreme minuteness, requiring the 

 aid of the microscope for their full explanation and the eye, 

 that only look for obvious and dazzling beauty, is very apt 

 to pass them by in neglect and disregard. 



B. F. Mudge of Lynn, presented some statement of the 

 geological observations of the day. He had visited the two 

 large bowlders which had been mentioned by the chair. 

 They would, apparently, weigh from 75 to 100 tons each 



