sun don't you get up enough spunk to come to some §f the meetings? 

 If you would once get to a meeting you would make a business of com- 

 ing to succeeding ones. A man like you who loves to meet the botanists 

 he has corresponded with or knows. ..toy 'refutation can not fail to de- 

 rive solid satisfaction from the meetings. Of course it is the social 

 feature which is prominent and properly so, I think. You could doubt- 

 less get more information by sitting down at home and reading some 

 of the standard books. I am very sure that the information which you 

 would have gotten from the last meeting would be exceeded in accuracy 



by the poorest of the text -books. . I am not going to write you 



an account the meeting for I have just finished doing that for the 

 September GAZETTE and I cannot afford to do it twice so close together 

 even for your sake. 



Just before I went to the association I had a 3 -days fish- 

 nic. Owen, our professor of French, has a schooner-rigged sail-boat 

 with accommodations for f our. We 3 i ,e. , Owen, Parker ,our professor of 

 music ,Bunn, judge of the U.S. court ,ard I went off to the best fishing 

 grounds and anchored there. We slept o£ the boat and spent the most 

 of the day in fishing. We would get up at about four o'clock and fish 

 till breakfast -time; then eat our breakfast and fish till ten or 11 o' 

 clock; then come in and play whist or "gas" till dinner. Owen had a 

 camp kit along and *e cooked some of our fish for dinner. About three 

 o'clock we would start out again and fish till 7 or S. It goes without 

 saying that we had a jolly good time. The fishing was not good except 

 on one day. Our total catch amounted to about 125 lbs. Host of them 



