August 12, 1896, Wednesday Fair and very warm. Got up about 4.45 or 5.00 A. M. and after getting breakfast and taking down tent and packing for onward trip we drove team ( about 8.00 A. M. ) on the road running west from Mr. Nutting's farm for perhaps two miles ( to end of well traveled road). There the Fernalds and a Nutting boy, and I walked about a mile into the woods and collected some Rhododendron Maximum. We returned to Mr. Nutting's place and started north again at about 10.00 A. M. It was mostly up- grade to the hotel at Highland just before reaching which (by a half mile or so) we stopped for an hour or more at a watering tub for dinner. Collected some mosses along the branch of Michael Stream nearby. Soon after starting on again we had a fine view of the Bigelow Range. We reached the Ledge House about 5.00 P. M. or a little earlier and the Mount Big- elow Hotel( Parson's) about 5.30 P. M. We drove about a mile and a half beyond this and camped in a field in the rear of Mr. W. O. Wyman's house,getting to bed at 9.00 P. M. August 13, 1896, Thursday Fair and not quite so warm. Slept quite well last night and got up about 5.00 A. M. Straightening out things about camp, the Fernalds went collecting along the river and a little later Professor Strong followed them. I stayed about camp and fixed it up some. Had sweet potatoes, buckwheat cakes, etc. for dinner. In P. M. I stayed about camp while the rest collected some along the river and intervales. August 14, 1896, Friday Did not sleep quite as well last night and it was quite cold towards morning. In middle of A. M. M. L. Fernald, W. C. Strong, and I started for a collecting trip up on the mountain. We struck into the woods a little east of the regular path ---