Proceedings of the Club 



Tuesday, October 8, 1901 



This meeting was held at the Museum, Botanical Garden, 

 Bronx Park, at 3:30 p. m.; Dr. L. M. Underwood in the chair ; 27 

 persons present. 



One active member was elected : Mr. W. L. Sherwood, 36 



Washington Place, New York City. 



The program consisted of informal reports on summer's work. 



Dr. Underwood spoke of his collecting in Puerto Rico, exam- 

 ining thoroughly the western part of the island during five weeks 

 spent there ; details concerning which will be given later. He 

 collected over 1000 numbers of dried plants and sent back a num- 

 ber of cacti now growing in the Botanical Garden. He afterward 

 attended the A. A. A. S. meeting at Denver, Colorado, and spent 

 some time in botanical work throughout many parts of that state, 

 collecting about 600 numbers of the fall flora, particularly about 

 Ouray. 



The Secretary reported extension of range of Aster curvcsccns 

 by his discovery of its growth in quantity in the southern Berk- 

 shire hills. 



Dr. MacDougal reported that he had aided Prof. Elrod in 

 maintaining a summer laboratory for four weeks at Big Fork at 

 the north end of Flathead Lake, where he entertained Dr. H. C. Cow- 

 les and twenty students of the University of Chicago. Dr. Mac- 

 Dougal then joined a collecting party exploring a part of north- 

 ern Montana not known to have been before visited by a botanist, 

 except Canby, who gave it a flying trip in 1883 or 1884. Dr. Mac- 

 Dougal collected about 900 flowering plants. 



Mrs E. G. Britton mentioned her collecting at the end of May 

 last on Slide Mountain in the Catskills, discovering on Slide Moun- 

 near the balsam limit, several interesting mosses not before attrib- 

 uted to the Catskills. 



Dr. M. A. Howe reported on his eleven weeks of collecting, 

 mainly of marine algae in Nova Scotia and Newfoundland. He 

 made about ten principal stays of about a week each, at Yarmouth, 



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