FORT KENT AND GASPE 1 TRIP 
1904 
(From the diary of J. F. Collins) 
July 6, 1904, Wednesday [Bangor-Ft. Kent, Maine] 
Had breakfast at 6.00 A. M. at, Bangor House, Bangor, Maine. 
Went to Fort Kent on the 7.10 A. M. train, arriving there at 
3.40 P. M. On the train were some twenty people going th 
the meeting of the Josselyn Botanical Society, including 
the Misses Hunter, Clark, Shaw, Brooks, Moulton, Mansfield, 
Coburn, etc., and the Messers Powers, Knowlton, Stubbs, Dr. 
Fellows, etc. Before supper at the Dickey House Knowlton, 
a 
Beattie, Powers, Knight, and I botanized a little out on 
the delta. After supper attended a meeting of the Society 
at the schoolhouse. 
July 7f 1904, Thursday [Ft. Kent] 
Clear; got up about 5.00 A. M. and worked on mosses and 
helped Fernald. After breakfast at about 9*30 A. M. a party 
of twenty-three or four started on a trip to Saint Francis. 
We rode up the south side of the river stopping occasionally 
to botanize. Arrived at the "Horseback" just beyond Upper 
Saint Francis soon after noon and lunched on the shore of 
the river. Came back by way of the New Brunswick shore and 
ferry from Saint Clair. In the evening attended a talk by 
Fernald on the plamts collected today. 
July 8, 1904, Friday 
Clear. In the P. M. Fernald, Doctor Hay, Misses £seg > Shaw, 
and Brooks, and I walked down the bank of the SSint John River 
botanizing. Went down for a mile or a mile and a half. In 
the evening went to the schoolhouse and listened to Fernald 1 s 
talk on the Saint John River flora. 
