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some of his impressions of our country as compared with Europe. Dr. Asa 
Gray, whom we all revere as the Nestor of American botanical science, will 
also be present. Altogether the occasion m will be une of unusual interest. me 
exercises will be concluded by a reception, giving an excellent opportunity for 
social giana and the acquisition of stray bits of information 
At some time during the week there will be an excursion “i botanists to 
the Bartram house and garden at Kingsessing, a place of much historic i 
est from its associations with the early botanist, whom Linnzus called “the 
greatest natural botanist in the world.” He died in 1777. The place is yet 
rate as he left it. The house he built with his own hands, and many of the 
trees he planted are still there. The old cypress tree, some thirty feet round, 
will show that it does not take numerous centuries to make a large tree. Some 
a shrub we do not find often, even in its native North Carolina. A very 
specimen of the rare Quercus lyrata is — together with a number of rare — 
southern trees not often seen elsewher f 
Other excursions will be miscues during the week. The meetings 0 
the Club will be held at such times as are found most convenient, at whic - 
reading of ~_— discussions, and reports of committees will be in order. 
uncements of time and place of meeting, excursions, or be 
All a 
ters pertaining to the Club will be given on the daily programme of the 
ciation 
Probably the point of — age ay bose will be the botanical trea* 
ures of the Academy of Scie Here is to be found Miendabe herbarium, ® 
professor in the University of I nnsylvania ati author of a work on bot 
who died in 1815. The great abies of abweiate. one of the ‘oul wid ¥ ti 
q to ye a 
t what is wanted ina — fg 
possesses a duplicate North American te ae fo 50, 
venience of ready eg ang The total herbarium probably gatnie “nearly a 
species; but this is only a guess, for n nt has been made. Mr. of 
H. Redfield is the eel of the oallection, and by his special study 
M © its completeness in this particul 
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rostologist, is the secre 
. ing 
dale, whose private hhethas f 
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