Located just outside of Acadia National Park, near the Seaside Path, the memorial plaque reads: 

TO THE MEMORY OF
EDWARD LOTHROP RAND
1859-1924
IN GRATEFUL RECOGNITION OF HIS PIONEER SERVICE AND LABOR OF LOVE
IN MAKING KNOWN
THE FLORA OF MOUNT DESERT
AND COMPILING MAPS OF 
ITS WOODLAND AND MOUNTAIN PATHS

About Edward Lothrup Rand

As a Harvard University student, Edward Lothrup Rand joined the Champlain Society as its director of botanical studies and secretary. In later years, Rand used his botany notes to co-author a text with John Redfield entitled Flora of Mount Desert Island, Maine (1894) and was an active trail builder and map maker.