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Wet Mountain Valley, Colorado — Contributions Toward a List of 

 the Fauna aiid Flora of. T. D. A. Cockerell. (West Am. 

 Sci. vi. 153-155). 

 In this contribution the author Hsts thirty-one Algae, nine 



Pteridophyta and four Gymnospermae. 



Proceedings of the Club. 



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1890, the Vice-President in the chair, and 21 persons present. 



Prof. Byron D, Halsted, Mr. Jolm K. Small, Miss Anna M. 

 Vail, and Mr. F. von Wilmowsky were elected Active Members. 



The deaths of Mr. James Hogg and Dr. W. DcForest Day, 

 two of the incorporators of the Club, were announced by the 

 Secretary, and a committee was appointed to draw resolutions 

 expressive of the sentiments of the Club. 



Dr. Rusby, on behalf of the Field Committee, read a final 

 report of the season's work. 



Mr. Hollick,- Secretary of the Botanic Garden Committee, 



read a report of progress. The Committee was continued. 



Reports of the officers were read and accepted. The editors 

 presented the following 



Special Report on the Bulletin. 



On the completion of the 20th year of pubhcation of the 

 Bulletin the Fditors consider it desirable that a statement of 

 the progress of that journal from its beginning should be publicly 

 made, as well as of its present prospects and needs. While the 

 main facts of its history are familiar to some of the older mem- 

 bers to those who have recently come into the Club they will 

 be new and will therefore be of especial interest. 



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While bearing the 



name Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club, it was actu- 

 ally a private venture on the uart of that earnest and enthusiastic 

 botanist, for at that time the Club had no legal organization. Mr. 

 Leggett stated in his salutatory that its object *'was primarily to 

 form a medium of communication for all those interested in the 

 Flora of this vicinity and thus to bring together and faninto aflame 



the sparks of botanical enthusiasm at present too much isolated, 



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