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specimens to its Onondaga herbarium, which now contains nine hun- 
dred and forty species and varieties of ph^enogams and acrogens, be- 
sides seventy-six mosses. The order best represented in this collec- 
tion is CompositEe, of which there are a hundred and seven species. 
The Club has held fortnightly meetings through the winter for 
botanical readings and hopes soon to resume its field work. 
At its annual meeting, March 15th, the following officers were 
elected for the current year: President, Mrs. Clark W. Barnes; Vice- 
President, Mrs. Leonora Goodrich ; Corresponding Secretary, Mrs. 
George Hosmer; Recerding Secretary, Miss C. A. Bach; Treasurer. 
Miss Katie Poole. Mary Olivia Rust. 
Proceedings of the Torrey Botanical Club— At the regular meet- 
ing of the Club held at Columbia College, Tuesday evening, Feb. 
1 2th, the President occupied the chair and twenty-five persons were 
present. 
The following Committees were appointed for the current year: 
Finance Committee.— K^^\%oxi Brown and J. L. Wall. 
Committee on Admissions.— \N . R. Gerard and Benj. Braman. 
Herbarium and Library Committee.—'^. L. Britton, Miss E. G. 
Knight, A. Hollick and J. S. Brown. 
Dr. Newberry continued his account of the vegetation along the 
line of the Northern Pacific Railroad, describing more particularly 
on this occasion the shrubs and herbaceous plants. 
One person was elected an active member. 
At the regular meeting of the Club held at Columbia College 
Tuesdav evening, March nth, the President occupied the chair and 
twenty-six persons were present. Messrs. Rudkin, Day and Hollick 
were appointed a committee on field meetings for the present year. 
Dr. N. L. Britton remarked upon a collection of ferns made in 
recent years by Mr. S. B. Buckley in Texas and Mexico. It included 
the following species: 
Polypodium incanum, Swartz, a small form from rocks in the 
mountams of Pecos Co., Texas.; Gymnogramme hispida, Mett., Lam- 
pezas Mountains, Mexico; Notholcena sinuata, Kaulf., Pecos Co., 
Texas.; N. ferruginea, Desv., Lampezas Mts., Mexico; N. Candida, 
Hook., Pecos Co.; N. Hookeri, DC, Pecos Co.; N. Fehdleri, Kunze, 
Pecos Co.; N. dealbata, Kunze, Austin, Texas.; Cheilanthes Alaba- 
mensis, Kunze, Austin; C. microphylla, Swartz, Austin; C. leucopoda, 
Presl, Lampezas Mts , Mexico; C. Eatoni, Baker, Pecos Co., Texas; 
C. Lindheimeri, Hook., Lampezas Mts.; Fella;a atropurpurea, Link, 
F. ternifolia, Link, Pecos Co. ; P. Wrightiana, Hook., Pecos Co. ; 
Asplenium parvulum. Mart, and Gal., Austin; Aspidium patens, Swartz, 
Austin; Lygodium Mextcanum, Presl, on the Mexican side of the Rio 
Grande, near Brownsville, Texas. 
Dr. Newberry remarked upon the flora of the Cascade Mountains 
in Oregon, and read extracts from his journal of the expedition to 
that region in 1855. 
Erratum.— Page* 31 (March number) second line from bottom, 
read " axis " (or " axils." 
