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"Because there is so much mucilage in the algce, they would stick 

 to card and paper both, and you could never take them out." 



The book was closed : Mr. Fleming found a little piece of board, 

 and the whole was put under the end of a big trunk. Other specimens 

 in like manner were prepared, the book opened at a new place, the cards 

 arranged, the remainder of the handkerchief carefully folded over 

 them and again placed under the trunk. 



"Shall I finish the remaining specimens?" 



"Oh, no, thank you," said Sadie. " We will do them, and it is 

 so easy r.ow that we know how, I don't think there will be any 

 trouble." 



" The next time you send to the city you will do well to get some 

 photographic mounting cards, then you can use your mosses for album 

 pictures, and an album of sea-mosses with the autograph of your sea- 

 side acquaintances upon the cards is as pretty a souvenir of a summer 

 vacation as one can possess." 



"Oh, girls! what a charming idea!" said Hattie. 



" We thank you ever so much for your kindness," said Sadie, " and 

 Mr. Fleming, too, for the interest he has shown." 



" We hope it has given you pleasure. — And now, Mr. Fleming, shall 

 we resume our conversation on the piazza?" I remarked as we left the 

 room. 



" If it is agreeable to you, and will not interfere with the pleasanter 

 employment of interesting the young in natural history," the minister 

 replied ; and so we spent the remainder of the afternoon most pleas- 

 antly and profitably. 



FIELD RECORD. 



St. Louis and Botany. — Unable, for 

 a variety of reasons, to accompany the 

 Colorado Excursion given to the members 

 of the A. A. A. S. after the adjournment 

 of the St. Louis meeting, I was obliged 

 to content myself with such a glance at 

 the flora of the nearer vicinity of the 

 Metropolis of the Valley as the circum- 

 stances would permit. The chief oppor- 



tunity afforded for this purpose was the 

 very pleasant e<cursion to Iron Mountain 

 and Pilot Knob, which was generously 

 tendered us by the citizens of Jst. Louis 

 and the railroad companies on August 

 24th. The heat was excessive and would 

 have been well nigh intolerable but for 

 the constant flow of cooling beverages, 

 ice cream, &c, which the munificence of 

 the local committee and managers made 

 more free than water. 



