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due to Dr. Quelet, add to the value of the book, and give a correct 
idea of all the genera and of the principal species. 
Henry Shaw School of Botany, Inaugural Exercises in 
Memorial 
Hall, St Loins Mtisetcm of Fi?ie Arts, Nov. 6th, 1885. 8vo. 
pamph., pp., 24. 
Catalogue of the Phcenogamous and Vascular Cryptogamous Plants of 
North America {exclusive of Mexico) By J, H. Oyster. 8vu, 
pp. 112, Paola, Kansas. 1885. 
Sketch of the Botanical Work of the Rev. Moses A, Curtis, A.M., 
B.D., F.A.A.S. By. Thomas F. Wood. Raleigh: EdNvards, 
Broughton & Co. 1885. 8vo, pamph,, pp. 31; with steel plate 
portrait of the subject of the" memoir. 
Proceedings of the Torrey Club,— The regular meeting of the 
Club was held at Columbia College, Tuesd-iy evening, I>c. 8th. In 
the absence of the President, Mr. Braman occupied the chair. 
The committee appointed at the last meeting to extend to Dr. 
Gray the Club's congratulations on the completion of his seventy- 
fifth birthday submitted the following correspondence: 
(resolutions.) 
Resolved: That the Torrey Botanical Club of New York sends its greetings to 
Dr. Asa Gray on the attainment of his seventy-fifth birthday, and its conf^ratulations 
that It fnuls him in the enjoyment of heaUh, the full possession of all his great 
powers and undiminished enthusiasm in the science to which he has devoted his 
life. 
^ Resolved: That we tender to Dr. Gray our gratitude for the splendid contribu- 
tions he has made to American botany, and our heartfelt wishes that many years of 
activity and happiness may yet be added to his already long and useful life. 
J. S. Newberry, M.D., 
Addison Brown, \ Committee. 
E. G. K. Brixton, 
(REPLY.) 
Herbariu.m of Harvard University, 
Botanic Garden, Cambridge^ Mass. 
November 20th, 1S85. 
lo Arthur Jloliick, Secretary, and Pfof f, S. Newbeiry, Addison Brown, Esq,, 
Mrs. E. G, K. Britton, Committee of the Torrey Botanical Club: 
Let me return my sincere thanks for the honor you have paid me and the pleas- 
ure you have given me by the congratulations which the Torrey Club has sent 
through you, on the occasion of my seventy-fifth birthday, with which I have been 
deeply touched and gratified, 
_ With best wishes to you all personally, and for the prosperity of the Club 
which has so honored and venerated a name, I remain 
Sincerely yours, 
Asa Gray, 
Mr. O. R. Willis read a number of reminiscences of some of our 
earlier botanists— Torrey, Rafinesque, Short and others. 
Mr. Britton showed a specimen from the Torrey herbarium 
labeled Geranium^ simply, collected by Dr. Denslow in 1867 on the 
Kingsbridge road, and which proves to be G, Sibiricum, L. 
Mrs, Britton remarked upon some additions to the flora of West- 
chester County, and exhibited specimens of double-flowered Viola 
pubescens from Pelham Manor. 
