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Mrs. Eckler with her usual hospitality soon had a fine supper before us and insisted that we should spend the night at her camp.

A file of newspapers had accumulated during my absence and we eagerly poured over these during the evening, getting a connected account of the progress of the war and learning of the events in our own country.

With this the narrative of our trip in the Adirondacks properly closes. The next day, before taking the noon boat back to civilization, we rearranged our pressed specimens and named certain ones not hitherto identified. On the way back we had not gathered any new specimens except the Veratrum and a Streptopus at Seventh Lake. However, we frequently took better specimens of plants thatv had not pressed well. All our specimens were later exhibited at the Botanical Section of the Rochester Academy of Science and an account given of our trip.