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*Brother met with an accident.

carefully but found nowhere any of the ferns I longed to find.
Down near the river, on a Clethra alnifolia I found a little
bird's-nest, turned on its side & containing two eggs.  The 
branch was partly decayed and no doubt the weight of the bird
& its nest had twisted it into this position.

I returned home about 4 P.M.

330
July 7, 1902.  A little tramp with Walter to Back shores and
the adjacent fields.  I again examined the Milkweed (Asclepias
Cornuti).  I found a great many large green beetles on the
flowers, also flies, and that common red beetle spotted with
black.  The large green beetle alone removed the pollen-masses.
Next to Horner's place, immediately east of it, workmen
were busy digging trenches for the foundation of the
garbage reduction furnace.  Here, close to the shore I
found several plants of a new compositae.  I think it a species
of Crepis probably Crepis intermedia.

331
July 9, 1902.  A trip Loch Raven planned with Wilkinson, but he failed
to put in his appearance,* although he wrote he would come rain
or shine.  Hardly more than I expected though, there are very
few people that we can depend upon, when it comes to tramps
        