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Joint Bulletins 4 and 5 



IN MEMORIAM 



MRS. NELLIE HART WOODWORTH 



Harold Goddard Rugg 



Mrs. Nellie Hart Woodworth, a member of the Vermont Bird Club r 

 for many years, died March 12, 1918 at Sarasota, Fla. Mrs. Woodworth 

 was born in East Berkshire, Vt., August 17, 1847. She spent a large 

 part of her life in East Berkshire and in St. Albans. She remained 

 in Florida during the winter for the last few years but always returned 

 to Vermont for the summer. The last meeting of the club which she at- 

 tended was the one at Franklin. 



Mrs. Woodworth contributed many articles on birds to various 

 magazines and to the Boston Transcript. She also wrote bird poems 

 which were published. She was an intimate friend of John Burroughs 

 and at her death he said: "I can indeed pay a heartfelt tribute to my 

 friend for many years, Mrs. Nellie Hart Woodworth, whose recent death 

 comes to me with a distinct feeling of loss. I know her to have been 

 a woman of fine mind and a warm womanly heart. She had a rare 

 gift for making friends and keeping them. She was a sincere lover 

 of nature and knew the birds as well as her dearest friends." 



ELROY KEST 



George L. Kirk 



Elroy Kent of East Wallingford, who was affiliated with the Ver- 

 mont Botanical Club since the first years of its existence, died suddenly 

 at his home January 29, 1918. During more than 30 years of his busy 

 life as a farmer, Mr. Kent devoted such spare time as he had at his de- 

 mand to the pursuit of his hobby, botany. His home being unusually well 

 situated for studying a well-varied flora, he thoroughly explored the ter- 

 ritory for miles around and he accumulated an herbarium which is 

 complete from a local standpoint. This collection, which is of especial 

 interest in that it represents the floras of Spectacle Pond and other 

 cold ponds and bogs, is still at Mr. Kent's late home. 



While the higher forms of plants were the subjects of Mr. Kent's 

 chief study, he also took a great interest in lichens and fungi. 



Mr. Kent is survived by two sons, Duane E. Kent of Rutland and 

 Wyatt A. Kent of Contact, Nev., and a daughter, Mrs. R. H. Mahaffy 

 of Wallingford. The sons are students of bird life. 



