MEETING OF THE BIOLOGICAL CLUB. 



Orton Hall, May 4, 1914. 



The meeting was called to order by Mr. Kostir and the min- 

 utes were read and approved. There was a discussion as to a 

 possible time for a field trip. It was moved and seconded to have 

 a committee to arrange a possible time and place for such a trip. 



Prof. Vivian showed a long series of pictures illustrating his 

 trip abroad. He began with loictures of Ireland and France. 

 The most of the views were of India and Japan. 



Miss Storer told of her eugenics work in the Field. She 

 showed three charts, one of a Cleveland family and two of Rural 

 communities. She showed that certain traits such as feeblemind- 

 edness, immorality, and alcoholism will run through an entire 

 family. 



A new cockroach, much like the Paleozoic Cockroaches was 

 reported. 



The meeting adjourned. 



Blanche McAvoy, Secy. 



The Ferns of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania — Pro- 

 fessor Lewis S. Hopkins, of the State Normal School, Kent, Ohio, 

 has published an admirable little manual of the ferns of Pittsburg 

 and surrounding country, as Publication III of the Botanical 

 Society of Western Pennsylvania. It gives not only the usual 

 botanical information and keys for identification, but also notes 

 on the fern haunts and habits and something of their folklore. 

 It is profusely illustrated with half-tones remarkably true to 

 nature. The beautiful habit pictures invite one alluringly to 

 the woods. This is just the kind of booklet that is needed to 

 lead the average person away from the nerve-racking life of modem 

 times to the peaceful contemplation of nature. With this manual 

 one should be able to identify most of the common ferns of Eastern 

 Ohio. More books of this nature should be written. 



J. H. S. 



Date of Publication, February 12, 1915. 



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