HARTLAND VERMONT 
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It will be seen that 28 papers and talks had been given, by 
14 people, several of them accompanied by exhibits, and that 
three of the papers were collective. This indicates a goodly 
percentage of active members, a pretty well equalized degree of 
activity, and a reasonable amount of genuinely objective work. 
For a literary or musical club this record would not be remark¬ 
able; for a nature club it was certainly phenomenal. 
IT GETS A TRANSIENT HOME 
Fifteen months after the club started it united with the Vil¬ 
lage Library Association and the Y. M. C. A., in furnishing and 
maintaining “Village Rooms” in an old building which had once 
been a hotel—the Hotel Hartland. 
The rent was divided among the three organizations, the 
nature club’s portion being ten dollars a year! The rooms, which 
had been occupied by a tinsmith, were renovated, with great en¬ 
thusiasm. Members and friends contributed materials and work, 
money and furniture. Two dollars were spent for a show case 
and table, and chairs were bought; to a wainscot rail was added a 
shelf for drawings and collections. Decorations were in green 
and white with green curtains and hangings of burlap. Mr. Under¬ 
wood gave a bookcase, and the library came into being. 
Four months after the founding of this library a librarian 
was elected, and now she administers 60 volumes and many bul¬ 
letins, magazines and reports—not to speak of the original papers 
in the Club’s archives. 
Yet is literary expression, and still more literary impression, 
but a by-product of the Club’s business. With the founding of 
the library came the beginning of the herbarium. For this work 
uniform mounting paper was purchased of the Cambridge Botan¬ 
ical Supply Co., and paid for out of the general fund. Some 
members discovered, some collected, some mounted specimens at 
home with strips of gummed paper, and some came together for 
all-day work meetings. Where is the pen to chronicle even one 
of these meetings ? 
IT GIVES A BANQUET 
In Hotel Hartland was a dance hall with a spring floor, and 
here the club’s first banquet was held. Forty-four members and 
guests were present. The hall was decorated with evergreens 
