Diaries of field trips, 1896, 1904, 1905, 1906
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August 11. 1904, Thursday Cloudy all day. Clear in the late evening. In the A.M. all of us worked on the plants. In the P. M. we explored a bog northeast of the house and got some interesting things(Dro?eras, Rubus arctica, etc.). In the late P. M. and evening we all worked on the plants collected. August 12, 1904, Friday Clear in the A. M. We all worked on the plants until about eleven o'clock when Pease and I walked up a hill back of the house and thence northward and eastward and finally southward to the bay and back along the shore. In the P. M. we all worked on the plants until four o'clock when we went up into the cedar swamp a half or three quarters of a mile north of the house. In the evening we worked on the specimens until 10 P. M. August 13, 1904, Saturday Mostly fair or cloudy. Fernald, Pease, and I spent practically all the A. M. on the plants except just before dinner when we went to the Post Office. In the P. M. all three of us went up to a pond (Mare Pond) about three quarters of a mile north of the house. We worked all the P. M. in the bog surrounding the pond which latter was only an acre or two in extent. In the evening we worked on the plants. August 14, 1904, Sunday Rainy and very windy from southeast or southwest, Rained all day. Heavy surf running. In the A.M. we all worked in a shed on plants. In the P. M. we all put on full waterproof suits and walked down to the shore east of the wharf and watched surf and took some photographs. Came back by way of the wharf.