﻿Proceedings of the Club. 



Tuesday Evening, March 8, 1898. 



The club met by invitation at the Teachers College, where the 



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to its inspection and use, with reception and refreshments follow- 

 ing, in which the ladies connected with the Teachers College staff 

 dispensed their kind hospitality. 



President Brown presided. About 140 persons were present. 



The scientific program consisted of a lecture by Prof. 

 Francis E. Lloyd, of the Teachers Colli *e, on the trees of the 

 Pacific coast, illustrated with lantern slides taken by himself. He 

 discussed the characteristic Pacific trees found between California 



and Sitka 



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among others the western representatives of the white oak, black 

 ash and flowering dogwood. The Douglass Spruce, the western 

 maple {Acer macropkylluni) and others were shown both in their 

 regular closer-branched field-forms and in their irregular narrower 

 forest-forms. Abies (rrandit the White Fir of the 



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asiocarp 



West, and A. 

 were shown from the Olympic 



Mountains. Pines occur there at the altitude of 5,000 feet and 

 °ver, as P. albicaulis, the White-trunked Pine, bearing a round 

 cone with thick, fleshy scales. Its seeds are the food of a curious 

 crou ' inhabiting these mountains. This pine loves exposed situa- 

 tions, and also about Crater Lake, but always cowers under the 

 Wind, often forming a dense, broad, low mass on which one can 

 ■ K ls on a spring bed, perhaps 800 years old, while but four or 

 Ve feet ni gh- A curious contrast is afforded by the persistently 

 Crect trunk of Tsuga Pattoniana, the western hemlock, which 

 grows with the preceding, but becomes erect no matter how strong 

 e wind, nor how much its flexile trunks while young are de- 

 curved each winter by the snow. Several other pines were ex- 

 n ited as P. contorta and its erect form of the interior known as 



rrayana. Among Alaskan trees Picea Sitchensis, and the 



'a-ska Cedar were discussed. 



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Edward S. Burgess, 



Secretary. 



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