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Lake Drainage,” by E. C. Quereau; “ A Comparison of the Gon- 
iatite Fauna with that of Equivalent Limestone in western New 
York”, John D. Wilson; A collection of photographs of impor- 
tant rock exposures, falls, and quarries, F. L. Mead; The Study 
of the Pleistocene Deposits at Onondaga Valley”, C. W. Whee- 
lock; The Disturbances along the line of the Helderberg Escarp- 
ment, Philip F. Schneider; Facts relating to the thickness of the 
Tully Limestone, G. A. Dakin. 
Mr. Frank Hall has also reported the discovery of a seam of 
quartz crystals in the Corniferous rock at the Indian Reservation. 
This is to be studied in an endeavor to discover the source and 
method of formation of the same. 
REPORT OF BOTANICAL SECTION. 
Read by Mrs. L. Leonora Goodrich, chairman. 
The Botanical section has continued. the work in ferns, 
mosses and liverworts, upon which we were engaged at the time 
of last annual meeting, until early spring. An extremely warm 
season prevented accomplishing all we desired by way of botaniz- 
ing, especially through swamps; our usual rendezvous during 
July and August. May 30, the exact anniversary of the day we 
found Cubeliwm concolor (gree violet) last year, an unsuccess- 
ful search was made in same locality—Round Top. In May sev- 
eral members of the Botanical section found quantities of Epigea 
repens, (Trailing Arbutus) a few miles from Phoenix. This 
beautiful little harbinger of spring has become nearly extermin- 
ated from localities nearer home where it was plentiful a few 
years ago. Mr. Britcher reports having found T. erythrocarpum 
southeast from Green Lake, in woods at entrance of Tully Lake 
Park, and Labrador Pond. ‘This pretty painted trillium cannot 
furnish too many localities to gratify the eye for beauty. Mr. 
Britcher also furnishes localities for several orchids, among 
which the rare Cypripedium Hookeriti blossoming in woods north 
of Britton’s quarry. 
Was delighted to hear of that as but one locality is known 
in the county, 772, that furnished by Mr. Beauchamp, near Bald- 
winsville. 
