Vol. IV, No. 6.) Butuerin of THE Torrey Boranical CLus. [New York, June, 1873. 
At the regular meeting of the Torrey Botanical Club held April 
29th, 1873, the following resolutions were presented by the com- 
mittee appointed for that purpose, and unanimously adopted: 
Wuereas: It has pleased Divine Providence to remove from us 
by death our honored head, Dr. Joun TorREY, 
Resolved: That while deeply grieving the common loss of all 
the promoters of his favorite science, we mourn him who in a 
peculiar manner was our founder, father and friend. 
_ Resolved: That we cherish and prize his memory, inseparably 
interwoven not only with American Botany—in which he was co- 
laborer with the earlier pioneers, teacher and helper of nearly all 
the later investigators, and a leader in the original researches, 
public and private, of his State and country—but with the growth 
and coming to maturity of Botanical Science itself. We remember 
him with affectionate veneration as the occupant of chairs of high 
esteem and usefulness in several of our institutions of learning; as 
the incumbent from its establishment of an office of great personal 
trust under the General Government, in another exacting depart- 
-MIhent of science; as a diligent, honest and humble student of 
nature; and, above all, as adorned with rare Christian excellence 
and grace, growing in knowledge and virtue fuller and riper tothe 
last; and departing in a good old age, full of years and content. 
_ Resolved: That we recognize it as our duty and privilege to 
Imitate his excellent and alluring example, to use our utmost effort 
to promote a living interest in, and provide for the continuance and 
progress of local and general botanical investigation. cone 
Resolved: That these resolutions be entered upon the minutes of 
the Club, and that a copy thereof be presented to the family of the 
‘decessed. Gro. THURBER, 
Ww. H. Leeeetr, + Committee. 
Isaac H. Hatt, 
_ § 31—-Fertilization of Asarum Canadense,—In the Hortus Cliffor- 
Hanus, one of the earliest works of Linneus, published in 1737, 
eccurs the following passage in reference to Asarum Europenum: 
~ Stamina ante pubescentiam reflexa a pistillo procumbunt, at 
imstante copula eriguntur prius mares alterni sex, uxori communi 
4pproximantur, genitalem farinam efflant; absoluta eorum venere — 
et alterni reliqui sex mariti arcte feminam erecti comprimunt et 
suum pulverem effundunt.” 
Ihave found no reference to this curious statement in any later — 
Works, and have sought for any record of similar behaviour in our 
own Asarum Canrdense. 
_ @stablished in my garden, has enabled me to waich the progress of 
_ the anthesis of ics flowers. As soon as the calyx lobes open, the — 
twelve stamens are seen in beautiful symmetry, bent backwards and 
_ downwards from the stigma. In this position they all remain for 
4 period varying from 12 to 36 hours, when one or more of the 
_ alternate anthers bursts its turgid cells, while its curved filament 
begins to straighten, and slowly the stamen arises until the fluke- 
A small patch of the latter plant, 
