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Proceedings of the Club. 
WEDNESDAY EveEnInG, May 26, 1897. 
President Brown presided, and there were 43 persons present. 
An announcement from the Scientific Alliance of the city 
was read, stating that the funds of the Alliance would provide this 
year for printing the annual directory and monthly bulletins with- 
out calling upon the several societies for contributions. 
The scientific program was then taken up. Mrs. Britton re- 
peated the lecture given at the Brooklyn Institute on April 20th, 
the subject being “The Mosses of the Adirondack Mountains,” 
illustrated by lantern slides made by Mr. Van Brunt, and also by 
about 150 sheets of mounted specimens collected in the vicinity . 
of Adirondack Lodge and Lake Placid in the years 1892, 1894 
and 1896. The various locations where these mosses grew were 
described, including a climb up Whiteface, and the following list 
of rare species was given. From Avalanche Pass, Myurella julacea, 
Khabdoweisia denticulata, Schistostega osmundacea and Bryum concin- 
naium, the latter having been found only once before in the United 
States, by Professor Peck. From the vicinity of the Lodge, Ana- 
camptodon splachnoides, Dicranodontium longirostre, Rhabdowetsia 
Jugax, Neckera oligocarpa, several forms of Hypnum recurvans, in- 
cluding HZ. lazepatulum,the capsules of Dicranum viride, and Zygodon 
vartdissimus, sterile, but bearing gemmules. From Mt. Marcy, 2z- 
cranum Sauteri, Raphidostegium Jamesi, not previously reported 
for the State, Wypnum uncinatum var. plumulosum, Hypnum stram- 
ineum, Aulacomnion turgidum, Sphagnum sedoides and Tetraplodon 
mnioides, From Moose Id., Lake Placid, Buxbaumia indusiata, 
Homalia Jamesti and Onchophorus Wahlenbergu. From the cliffs 
at Cascadeville, Blindia acuta, Myurella Careyana, Swartzia mon- 
tana, Didymodon rubellus, Bartramia Ocederiana, Encalypia ciliata, 
Leptotrichum glaucescens. Duplicates of all of these have been de- 
posited at the State Herbarium at Albany, the main collection 
having been presented to the Herbarium of Columbia University. — 
Partial sets were sent to the Brooklyn Institute, Cornell University, 
and various other institutions. 
The subject of the lecture was further discussed by Mr. A. 1; 
