FORT KENT AND GASPE' 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 to
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,
Beattie, Powers, Knight, and I botanized a little out on
the delta. After supper attended a meeting of the Society
at the schoolhouse.
July 7, 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 lunching 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 plants collected today.
July 8, 1904, Friday
Clear. In the P. M. Fernald, Doctor Hay, Misses [illegible], Shaw,
and Brooks, and I walked down the bank of the Saint 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's
talk on the Saint John River flora.