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yellow, clear lakes, and mossy bogs. Among the flowers which 

 produce masses of color, yellow Arnica is most abundant and 

 Erigeron glabellas next so. Valeriana Sitchcnsls and Saxifraga 

 ]\i}i-Bru)itiac are among the most beautiful. The mountain forget- 

 me-not, Linnaca horcalis^ and Cassiopc tctragonmn occurred in great 

 abundance. 



Besides beautiful scenes about the Lake of the Clouds and 

 Lake Agnes, the Kicking Horse River, and among glacier ascents 

 and crevasseSj Mr, V^an Brunt exhibited views of the railway con- 

 struction, snowsheds, hotels, guides and ponies, introduced a party 

 from the Appalachian Mountain Club with their Swiss guide, and 

 finished with a number of representative flowers of the eastern 

 slope of the Rockies. 



Adjournment followed. 



TuESDAV Evening, May 9, 1899 



President Brown was in .the chair. 



32 persons were present. 



A letter was read from an absent member, Dr. A. Emil 

 Schmidt, now Chief of the Medical and Sanitary Department, Nile 

 Reservoir Works, Assouan, Egypt. This letter, dated March 23, 

 1899, mentioning the present sterility of Assouan and the lack of 

 any vegetation except the date-palm and sycamore, offered con- 

 tributions in the future should anything of botanical interest de- 

 velop during his expected seven years' residence. Dr. Schmidt 

 also tendered his resignation as an active member, which was ac- 

 cepted, and, on motion of Dr. Britton, his name was transferred to 

 the list of corresponding members. 



Announcement was made of the Sixth Annual Flower Show 

 at the Normal College, May iith, 12th and 13th, being an ex- 



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hibit of wild flowers of New York and vicinity, arranged by ladies 

 of the Normal College Alumnae. 



The Secretary made reference to his recent meeting with the 

 New England Botanical Club and the expression of interest in the 

 Torrey Club which was then made. He also alluded to the recent 



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good fortune of the Harvard Herbarium in receiving those manu- 

 scripts of the botanist Manasseh Cutler, which had been in the 

 hands of Oakcs and of T. W. Harris, and until recently, of the 



