The excursion of the Josselyn Botani¬ 
cal Society of Maine this year will be by 
the Bangor & Aroostook Railroad to Fort 
Kent, on the St. John, at the mouth of 
Fish River. Here the annual meeting of 
the Society will be held, and the field work 
will be continued during the four days of 
the meeting, and it is hoped that many 
members will remain for a longer time. 
Botanists from New Brunswick and Nova 
Scotia are invited to join us at Fort Kent, 
and we are assured that these Provinces 
will be well represented. 
railroad and hotel arrangements. 
Tickets for the round trip may be obtain¬ 
ed on Tuesday, July 5 , at any ticket office 
of the Maine Central Railroad on the en¬ 
closed list, for one fare to Old Town and 
five dollars additional. These tickets will 
be good for return for two weeks. 
Members may take train leaving Port¬ 
land at 10:30 P.M. Tuesday, or 12:55 
midnight, and connect with train leaving 
Bangor at 7 :10 a. m., Wednesday, July 6 . 
Both these trains have sleepers without 
change at Bangor. Tickets are also good 
to go to Bangor on any train Tuesday and 
remain over night. 
The headquarters of the Society will be 
at Hotel Dickey. Rate, $ 1.50 a day. 
program. 
Wednesday, July 6, at 8 p. m., a business 
meeting of the Society is called. 
Friday, July 8, at 8 p. m., Mr. Merritt 
Lyndon Fernald will address the Soci¬ 
ety on “The Flora of the St. John 
Valley ”. 
The committee recommend that even¬ 
ings for which no other provision is made 
be devoted to informal meetings for com¬ 
parison of notes and collections. 
It is hoped that each standing commit¬ 
tee will be prepared to report at this meet- 
