St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1913-02-05
Birds AND FIowERs
B0tanists and OrnithoIogists Have
Their State Gathering at the

BOtanists and OrnithoIogists Have
Their State Gathering at the
Museum a
The 18th annual winter meeting
| of the Vermont Botanical Club and
the 18th annual winter meeting of
| the Vermont Bird club was held at
the MH8eung on Friday and Saturday
when many interesting papers and
addresses were given. Though. the
attendance was rot. as large as usual
| 1t was generally conceded that the
meetings were the most interestins
ever held by these kindred organs
cations. DR.. Ezra Brainerd Of Mid
dlebury presided at the meetings o.
the Botanical Club and Prof. G. H
Perkins presided at the Bird Club
meetings, these two gentlemen be-
ing presidents of their respective or
CARNATIONS. All parts of the state
were represented and about 40 were
present besides many st. Johnsbury
visitors.
The program as previously print
ed was carried out in all it's details
though eight OF the papers were
read where the authors were not
present.
The little red-eyed vireo as the
farmers friend had an able defend
er in Miss Mabel E. Stevens of this
place. 81
Miss Inez A. Howe of this place
reported some new botanical finds
and in her discovery of several spec
linens of ST. Johns wort she has
has made valuable addition to the
flora Of the state. The bird-nesting
experience, so cnarmingly described
by Miss Sara E. Graves of Water
bury, proved to be the discovery af-.
ter a most diligent search of the nest
of the junco buried in a tangled
mass of chickweed. She closed her,
paper by reciting poem that took
her hearers right back to the tangled
woods and f1owery fields.
The most comprehensive and ex-
haustive paper of the entire gather
ing was given Saturday morning by
the former president of Middlebury
College, Dr. Brainerd, lone of the
great botanists of this country. The
address was supplemented with many
lantern slides and a number of spec
linens from his herbarium. 1t was
entitled "Misapprehe nsions regardin:
two Northern Violets." His address
presented resume OF six years of |
study and will later appear in a |
monograph which will be of great /
value to the botanical world In
cidentally in referring to the great |
variety of certain species of violets
he said that variety had been
named for him, an announcement
that was received with much pleas
ure by the mem ers of the Botanical
Club. Among the interesting facts
brought out by his address was that
the violet circles the globe through
it's northern parts and that for over
a century it has been closely studied
by the botanists of the world.
Officers Elected
At the business session of the b.
tanicaI Club these officers were elect
ed: President, Ezra Brainerd of Mid
dlebury; vice president, w. w. Egg
gleston of the Department of Agri-
culture; secretary, George P. Burns
of Burlington; treasurer, Mrs. Mel
lie F. Flynn of Burlington; librarian
Miss Phoebe Towle of Burlington;
editor. George L.. Kirk of Rutland.
At the business meeting of the
Bird Club these officers were chos-
en-: President, Prof. G.. H. Perkins of
Burlington; vice president, H, L. J.
Piper of Brattleboro; secretary, G. d.
Howe of Morrisville; treasurer, ]. G.
Underwood OF Hartland; executive
Mrs. A B. Morgan of
Mrs. E. B. Davenport
of Brattleboro, Miss Florence Stur-
devant of Hartland, D. L. Dutton of
editor of the Bulletin, H.
L. Piper.
A committee to confer with the
Audubon Society of Vermont to es-
tabIish closer relations and coopera-
ton was appointed by the president
consisting of Mr.. Underwood, Prof
Votey of the University of Vermont
and C.. D Howe Seven new mem
bers were added to the Bird club at
the business session
The treasurer, Mr. Underwood,
presented a report from Mr. Piper
looking for more efficiency in the
work Of the club and several of it's
were adopted. His
proposal for occasional sectional
meetings in Barre, BrattleDoro, Bur
lington, Hartland, Rutland and St.
Tohnsbury was adopted, as was also
MS suggestion that leader be chos-
en- in each of those towns to have
charge of the district work and the
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