(94) 
portance. We would give John Torrey a place second to 
none, as the Nestor of American botany. 
4. John Strong Newberry, botanical explorer in western 
America (1855-1860), Professor in Columbia (1866-1892), 
President of the New York Academy of Sciences (1868- 
1892), one of the founders of the Torrey Botanical Club and 
its president from 1880-1890, one of the pioneers in palaeo- 
botany in America, and interpreter of the significance of 
plant remains as a key to geological horizons, whose exten- 
sive accumulations of fossil plants form the foundation of our 
museum collections in that department. We would give 
Newberry a fourth place in this quartette of representatives of 
American Science, as a founder of palaeobotany in America. 
Respectfully submitted, 
L. M. UnpDERWwoon, 
Chairman, Scientific Directors. 
JANUARY 9, 1905. 
