30 Joint Bulletin 1 



CcphalozieUa Sta?-Jcei (Funck.) Schiffn., Calypogeia suecica (Am. & 

 Perss.) C. Mull., Frullania Belwyniana Pearson. 



The little Cah/pogeia was collected by E. H. Lorenz, the rest by 

 Prof. A. W. Evans and A. Lorenz. 



NOTES ON TWO VERMONT NATURE CLUBS. 



(abstract). 

 J. G. Underwood. 



The Hartland Nature club has had a rather quiet year so far as 

 results go, but the interest is maintained as strong as ever. Excellent 

 meetings have been held and the attendance has been about normal. 

 We face the new year with confidence, anticipating the busiest of our 

 history. The completion of the new town hall now being built will 

 give us better quarters than ever. Provision was made in the plans for 

 the building for a sort of annex which will contain three good sized 

 rooms: one as an historical room for the safe keeping of such relics of 

 the town's history as may be given, one as a permanent home for the 

 village library and the third as a permanent home for the Nature club. 

 This will give us a place to store our collections. 



The club has volunteered to assume charge of the grounds around 

 this beautiful building, and plans to use in their development, native 

 trees, shrubs, and flowers as far as possible. Our February meeting 

 will be given up to a study of those Native plants that are available 

 for landscape gardening, different members taking up the sections 

 mentioned. 



As the work already accomplished seems to warrant it, the club 

 will continue the study of the song-sparrow this next year, and in the 

 fall will devote one entire meeting to the bird under the leadership 

 of Mrs. Merritt, who is to oversee this study. The topic for this meet- 

 ing will be the life, habits, and numbers of the song-sparrow in Hart- 

 land. Under the leadership of another member the club will as in- 

 dividuals study the life history of wasps; and one meeting will be given 

 up to papers on the observations made. Out door meetings in the 

 summer will continue to be devoted more to exploring and collecting 

 than to formal papers. 



I learn that the Nature club at Waitsfield is in flourishing condi- 

 tion. Under the influence of a new building for the library in which a 

 room was given over to the use of this club, a very interesting year 



