The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1913-06-10
70 STUDY NATURE
Field Meeting Of Vermont Botanical
and Bible Clubs.

1
The annual summer field meeting
of the Vermont Botanical and Bird
Clubs will be held on Tuesday and
Wednesday, July l and 2, 1913. The
party will assemble on the evening
of Monday, June 80.
| The meeting will be held in the in
! teresting West River Valley, with
| headquarters at Townshend, Vt.
This is on the branch of the Central
Vermont r. r. that contents South
Londonderry and Brattleboro.
All trains connect at Brattleboro
with trains from the North and the
South. Timetables of the Boston &
| Maine and Central Vermont Rail-
! roads will show all trains and con-
nections. The hotel is the Town
shend Inn" where rates of $3.50 per
day have been secured by the COM
mittee. If more accommodations
are needed than the Hotel affords,
rooms will be secured about the viii
lage by the proprietor. Persons
planning to attend should write as
early as possible and reserve room.
Address l.. A. Wheeler, Townshend,
the local member of the committee.
1 1t is planned to have preliminary
| meeting on the evening of Monday,
June 80, at which time plans will
be discussed and adopted for the
two days field work. Probably in
formal meetings for discussion of
finds, etc, will be held each even
Ing.
Mr.. Wheeler has suggested several
different trips that would be of in
terest to Club members and those at
tending the meeting. A choice of
| these may be made at the meeting
| on Monday evening. Those suggest
ed are as follows: An all-day trip
to the former site of Newfane Viii
lage, DIR. CIRCUITS cabin and Kenney
| Pond { this trip will be considered
only If DR.. Grout is present.; all.day
trips to Lily Pond, or Black Noun
tain; or, if railroad schedules per-
nit, to various points about Jamai-
ca; one or two halliday trips along
| the shore of West River and border
ing lodges; through the Vermont
| State Forest plantation and up Bald
| Mt; or in the woods and about the
lodges and boys of Peaked Mountain
| All Nature awaits us, and we can
| hardly make a mistake in our choice
of direction. Mr.. Wheeler and Mr..
Dobbin will be ready to lead parties
on these trips.
Mr.. Wheeler has studied the bot
any of this region with much care,
has duplicates of rare finds to dis
| tribute to those attending the meet
| ing, and will have books available at
the hotel. Among the rarer things
he has found are the folowing:-
Conopholis americanus, Leptoloma
cognatum, Paspalum Muhlenbergii,
Eragrostls pectinacea, Sanguisorba
canadense, Habenaria fava, Vaccin-
ium caespitorum. Lycopodium trista-
chyum; Scirpus sylvaticus and Tor
reyi, Carex folliculata, Xyris mon
tant; Rosa virginiana, Hypericum
boreale and gentianoides, Camptsor-
us rhizophyllus, Stenopholus capil-
laris, Juncus Greenei, Tridens flaw
us. Not all of these will be in sea-
son nor will 1t be possible to visit
the stations of all in the time allotted,
but a number of them will be among
the duplicates for distribution.
Those bringing cameras to this
meeting should bring the necessary
films or plates as the local suppl,
is limited.
All persons interested in Nature
Study as well as members of these
clubs are cordially invited to attend
this Field meeting; especial invita-
ton is extended to members of the
clubs comprising the New England
Federation.
Further details of the trip may
be secured from members of the
committee.
A supplementary camping trip TO
explore the wilderness around STRAIT
ton will follow this Field meeting. A
| special circular about this trip is en-
closed.