Diaries of field trips, 1896, 1904, 1905, 1906
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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.