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JOURNAL OP MAINE ORNITHOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



Josselyn Botanical Society. 



Response, Capt. H. L. Spinney, Pres. 

 of the Maine Ornithological Society. 



Arrangement of the field work to 

 be carried on collectively with details 

 for side trips and daily conferences. 

 3 P. M. 



Each society will go into separate 

 session to settle whatever matters may 

 be deemed necessary by its members. 

 4 P. M. 



Field work by each society until six. 

 8 P. M. 



Lecture by Merritt L. Fernald of 

 Cambridge on some phase of Botanical 

 Research, particular subject to be an- 

 nounced later. 



Tuesday. 



The forenoon will be devoted to field 

 work by members of both societies in 

 common, parties being made up by 

 leaders of each society. 



The afternoon will be devoted to a 

 side trip to Norridgewock. 



Tuesday evening there will be a 

 lecture on the Birds of Maine, illus- 

 trated by steriopticon views of Maine 

 birds taken by members of the socie- 

 ty. 



Wednesday. 



The program during the day will not 

 vary materially from that of Tuesday 

 except that each society will work by 

 itself and the side trips will be to Madi- 

 son. 



8 P. M. 



Botanical Lecture, subject and 

 speaker to be announced in the next 

 issue of the Journal. 



Thursday. 



Forenoon program like that of Tues- 

 day. Afternoon trip to Lake Grove. 

 8 P. ML 



Ornithological Lecture, subject and 

 speaker to be announced later. 



It is earnestly desired that every- 

 one who is interested in nature study 

 will make an effort to attend this meet- 

 ing. We feel certain that all who are 



able to be present will leave Skowhe- 

 gan well pleased with his or her week 

 spent with the members of these two 

 societies. 



A BELATED GREBE. 



Mr. L. C. Williams of Athens, Me., 

 one of our members, has in his drug 

 store a mounted grebe which he 

 called my attention to, a short time 

 ago. The bird is of the Pied-billed 

 species and came into his possession 

 in this way: During a snow storm in 

 late Nov., this Grebe was found dead 

 in the snow near Athens, in Somerset 

 county. The bird had remained late 

 and in trying to get south, it had been 

 caught in a snow storm, became be- 

 wildered and finally fell to the snow 

 exhausted and succumbed to the se- 

 verity of the weather. A passer-by 

 saw the bird and not knowing what it 

 was brought it to Mr. Williams, know- 

 ing his interest in such things. 



The bird seems to be a-young-of-the- 

 year bird. (Ed.) 



The Josselyn Botanical Society of 

 Maine, will hold its eighth annual 

 meeting and field day in connection 

 with the meeting of the Maine Ornitho- 

 logical Society at Skowhegan, Mon- 

 day, June 29, till Friday, July 3, 1903. 



The usual reduced rates will be 

 granted by the Maine Central Rail- 

 road. 



The josselyn Botanical Society of 

 Maine was organized in 1895, for the 

 purpose of promoting the study of 

 the Flora of the State. The name 

 adopted is intended to keep in re- 

 membrance the enthusiasm and ac- 

 complishments of Maine's earliest 

 botanist, John Josselyn of Scar- 

 borough, whose "New England Rari- 

 ties" was published in 1672. 



The society aims to bring together 

 in social and scientific meetings as 

 many as possible of those interested 



