EDITORIAL 



The plan of issuing the Bulletin in the spring has been done away 

 with and hereafter it will appear annually in October. This change 

 was brought about by discontinuance of the winter meeting, when all 

 papers were formerly presented and business sessions held. For the 

 present, at least, only one meeting will be held each year, in the 

 summer, and the time will be given up to both field work and an in- 

 doors program which will permit the reporting of "finds," discussions 

 and the presentation of articles on natural history. 



There is urgent need of more matter for publication in the Bul- 

 letin. The organ is issued for the benefit of the members that each 

 may know what the other is doing in adding to the knowledge of 

 the flora and fauna of the State, for the publication of local lists and 

 any other items that show progress along the lines of the clubs' en- 

 deavors. Suggestions for intensive study are especially desirable. The 

 Bulletin belongs to the members and it is for them to say whether it 

 shall consist of few or many pages. There are ample funds to issue 

 a much larger Bulletin than we are now putting out if the material is 

 furnished. 



SECRETARY'S REPORT 



Nellie F. Flynn 



Report of Meetings 



A business and field meeting of the Vermont Botanical Club and 

 the Vermont Bird Club was held at Willoughby Lake in July, 1921, 

 with 33 members present. In the absence of the president, Dana S. 

 Carpenter of Middletown Springs was elected chairman and Dr. George 

 P. Burns, Burlington, secretary pro tern. 



After a full discussion of the matter of meetings, it was voted not 

 to hold a winter meeting in 1922, but to combine the winter and sum- 

 mer sessions, the members presenting at the July gathering papers 



