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iSHINGTON, N. H., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 4, 1897^ U^U^J^tO^\ 



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A PARTY OF NATURALISTS AT THE SUMMIT. 



Last evening several ladies and gentlemen, interested in 

 the study of plant and insect life, came to the Summit and 

 will make a prolonged stay. The party includes the vener- 

 able Mr. Edwin Faxon of Jamaica Plain, who has been a 

 frequent visitor, Mr. Henry J. Williams and Mrs. Williams, 

 and Miss Emile Wdliams of Boston, Mrs. A. r. Slosson 

 of New York. Dr. Geo. G. Kennedy, and Mrs. Kennedy, 

 and Miss Ingell of Readville, Mass., and Miss L. R. 

 Woods of Boston. Mount Washington and the neighbor- 

 hood furnishes abundant field for study of geology, botony, 

 and entomology. Insects and plants are found here that do 

 not exist in other places. Here on the Summit boulders 

 have been found that were foreign to this locality, which 

 correspond to the rocks many miles northwest of Mount 

 shington, evidently having been brought here in the 

 glacial period. President Hitchcock of Amherst Colleg 

 held that Mount Washington had not been submerged, bu 

 his son, Professor of geology at Dartmouth, found evi- 

 dence that it had shared the general fate of the lower 

 mountain tops. On the point of rocks just beyond the 

 old Signal station there are evidences of glacial action, to 

 which Prof. Emerson of Amherst College has called atten- 

 tion. Then there is the Mount Washington butterfly, 

 Kionobas semidea, found elsewhere only in Greenland, 

 which is abundant late in July or early in August, and 

 recognized as being rare only by those who have become 

 familiar with its habits. There is no end to the field of 

 nquiry in this high altitude, and appreciated only by those 

 vho have made nature in its varied forms a careful study. 



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