CASH ACCOUNT. 



DECEMBER. 



Received. Paid. 



DID MUCH IN BOTAXICAT, FIEI.D 



Kmlly Frnncen Flptehor of West ford -Had 

 B,™ f'ontributor to Gray Herbarium 

 and Hiitl M»dp Completo CoIIecMun of 

 rresHt-tl I'lowrra of Her Native Town 



I Emily I'rat, H Kletrhcr, who died at hpr 

 homo fii w. Hifn,-.!, was liorn in that town 

 Jan. 3 7, 1^1.-., tiif daughter of Sherman 

 Dewey and lirnlly Augusta Fletcher. She 

 was a student at WeStford Academy under 

 tho preceptorship of the late Governor John 

 D. Long:, and had been closely associated 

 with tho acthitics oi! tho town. Mif?s 

 Fletcher was a inmiber of the Unitarian 

 Chtirch anil a ni.r-rabcr of llio Woman's Al- 

 liance and the Tadmiick Clnb. She \™s a 

 lover of nature, lici- contrlbutlonn to the 

 science of botany baviner bniuB-lit hor much 

 fame. Kiie frequently reecrderi interesthij; 

 plants appeavIiiK on Oekls fcrtilli'.ed with 

 wool ^va^,t•- and had Peat some notable 

 specimens k, the Cray I l.-rbariiim. J-ler 

 most imiiorant dif-'eovery v,as at Westford 

 When hl,o found Ihe -Wessadula falllmor- 

 Pha" a nulhv of '";isir,n Bolivia and ad- 

 jacent I'.razil. ivliieii not luiown to 

 science nntd intMi, and even now is repre- 

 sented by only three collections. 

 . She had rnado a complete and beautiful 

 collection of (lie pressod flowers of hor 

 native town. Phe wa.s a member of the 

 Gray Memorial Botanb-al (.^hupter of the 

 Aeasslz Arsoelation and the New Enff- 

 land Botanical Club. Miss Fletcher was 

 an expert taxidermist and ptave a valuablo 

 collection ' of native .stuffed birds to the 

 J. V. Fletcher I.,ibrary a few years ago 



She is survived by her brother. Captain 

 Sherman H. Fletcher, and two nieces, Ger- 

 trude D. and Julia H. Fletcher of -West- 



ford. 



