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ago, and the soil is yet charred from its effects, and nine months 
later what underbrush had started was pretty effectually cut off by 
the Park Commissioners, so that the conditions under which these 
plants grew were different from any they would: have found there 
in the past fifteen years that I have known the place. I would be 
very glad to know if anyone has ever found this moss in such 
abundance. . Gro. G. KEnNepy. 
READVILLE, Mass. 
Herbert A. Young. 
The news of the death, at Toledo, Ohio, December 8, of Herbert 
A. Young, formerly of Revere, Mass., will be received with regret 
by his many friends in. this vicinity.. He early in life became 
interested in botany, and in 1882 published the “Flora of Oak 
Island,” a botanical station in the vicinity of Boston, familiar to 
botanists since the days of Jacob Bigelow. He later became in- 
terested in the sedges, grasses and mosses, and contributed largely © 
to these sections of the Flora of Middlesex County, Mass. 
He was a good scholar and a keen botanist, but in recent 
years the demands of his profession as a civil engineer, and later 
as an officer of the Mexican Central Railway, have prevented his 
giving much attention to his favorite study. He passed away at 
the early age of thirty-seven, but he had already accomplished a 
work that entitles him. to the esteem and remembrance of the 
botanists of Boston and vicinity. Ws. P. Ricu. 
Boston, December 26, 1894. 
Proceedings of the Club. 
TursDAY EvENING, DECEMBER IITH, 1894. 
The regular meeting of the Club was held in the lecture room 
of the new building of the College of Pharmacy, 115 West 68th 
street. The evening was very stormy. Vice-President Allen 
occupied the chair and there were forty-eight persons present. 
The Committee on Membership reported favorably upon the 
