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But all things have an end, and the birthday party abruptly ad- 

 journed to the porch and lawn, where a formal business meeting was 

 held. At this session it was voted to consolidate the summer and 

 winter meetings of the clubs and to hold one annual meeting in July 

 of each year. 



The extreme heat of Thursday, July 7th, somewhat abridged the 

 explorations of the party, although some good work was done in the 

 bogs and swamps at the north end of the lake. 



On Friday morning it was voted to break camp as many of our 

 party were obliged to leave on that day. 



The summer meeting of 1921 will go down in the history of the 

 clubs as one of the best. Much of the success of the occasion was 

 due to the expert guidance of Mr. E. J. Winslow, who knows the region 

 of Lake Willoughby as well as he knows the ferns of New England. 

 When reports are all in from each individual's work, substantial 

 additions to the Willoughby Flora will have been made. 



But better than all of this, 30 members went to their homes the 

 better citizens for the week's intercourse with nature, face to face, and 

 for the bonds of human love and sympathy that are always cemented 

 more closely, by such a convention of kindred spirits. — From The 

 Vermonter. 



SUMMER MEETING OF 1922 



Nellie F. Flynn 



The summer meeting of 1922 was held at Montgomery Center with 

 an attendance of about 25. 



The first day's trip was from Montgomery to Eden through Avery's 

 Gore and Belvidere and back to Montgomery through Hazen's Notch, 

 stopping on the way at the numerous ponds, swamps and boggy places 

 to collect the interesting plants growing there. 



After eating our lunch at the foot of Belvidere Mountain we 

 climbed to the asbestos mine to see the particular object of the trip, 

 the new variety of maidenhair fern, Adiantum pedatum var. aleuticum. 

 This is the first station for this fern in Vermont and also the first in 

 the United States. An account of its discovery here is given elsewhere 

 in this Bulletin by the finder, Mrs. L. Frances Jolley. It was first 

 seen in eastern North America on Mt. Albert in the Gaspe penin- 



