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HARTLAND NATURE CLUB 
and holly and many specimens of the work of members were 
exhibited on the walls. These included: 
A collection of birds painted in water color by Mrs. Morgan; 
Ferns collected by Mr. Rugg; 
Pressed flowers, including some not hitherto known as from Ver¬ 
mont, collected by the club; 
Mosses, presented to the club by Miss Darling; 
Tree leaves, shown by Miss Hattie M. Smith; 
Mounted butterflies shown by Mr. Phineas W. Whiting; 
Minerals of Hartland, shown by Mr. B. P. Ruggles. 
Grasses and sedges. 
Letters were read from Ernest Harold Baynes and from 
President Ezra Brainerd, of the Vermont Botanical Club. 
The sub-editors of various special subjects reported on their 
specialties: astronomy, insects, plants, geology. 105 different 
birds were reported, several of which were new to the locality. 
A special study had been made of a worm that had been at work 
in local sugar places. Thirty plants new to town lists had been 
found, and several had been added to the flora of the state. 
Short encouraging and stimulating addresses were made by 
Rev. Charles Echterbecker of Windsor, Mr. Phineas W. Whiting 
of Dartmouth College, Rev. O. D. Clapp of the local Methodist 
church, Rev. C. 0. Gill of the Congregational church, and Mr. 
A. J. Hoisington of the Hartland Grange. 
IT ATTAINS SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS 
At the second banquet, a year later, the club reported having 
taken its second step; it had begun to influence the town educa¬ 
tionally, thru the children. At an Arbor Day celebration com¬ 
petitive essays about trees were written by children for prizes, 
and competitive work was done in collecting and classifying tree 
buds and tree bark. The adult population had also been edu¬ 
cated by public illustrated lectures, notably one on ferns, one 
on the herring-gull and one, in connection with the Y. M. C. A., 
by Edward Avis on bird songs. 
The Rev. F. K. Brown, pastor of the Congregational church, 
at this point burlesqued the public doings of the Club in the 
Congregationalist, thus adding to its prestige. He hit cleverly 
at various outstanding features and described among others a 
much bespectacled male member who had on exhibition over 
