10 SEMI-CENTENNIAL OF TORREY BorANICAL CLUB 
has been even more forcibly impressed on me since that the acti- 
vating force, the activating energy, in the botanical development 
of this region centered to a preponderating extent in one individual. 
You all know whom I mean. It was he who really organized the 
botanical department of Columbia University and who was its 
first professor. It was he also who was largely responsible for the 
organization of the New York Botanical Garden. As members 
of the Torrey Botanical Club we all rightly pride ourselves upon 
the influence of the Club as a whole in bringing about the founda- 
tion of that institution. It is, however, no disparagement to the 
devotion of the non-professional members to say that had there 
not been a professional botanist back of the movement who was 
not only a man of vision, but also one of unusual organizing ability, 
the Garden would not have developed at the time or in the manner 
in which it did. I think that you will agree with me, Mr. Chair- 
man, that even this Garden where we now are was influenced in its 
initiation in no small measure by the importance and success of its 
elder sister in Bronx Park. Е inally, in a less important way per- 
haps, the same efficient loyalty to botany has been shown in the 
arrangement and the carrying through of this Semi-centennial 
Celebration of our Club, which we owe to the chairman of our 
special committee. | 
I would, therefore, like to offer a motion for a vote of thanks to 
be extended by the club to Dr. N. L. Britton, Director-in-Chief 
of the New York Botanical Garden and Dean of our botanical 
fraternity here. 
The motion was unanimously carried. 
After the serving of tea in the rotunda of the library, the mem- 
bers of the Club inspected some of the more attractive and inter- 
esting features of the grounds of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden 
under the guidance of Dr. C. Stuart Gager and other members of 
the Garden staff. 
The following members of the Club were present at one or more 
of the three meetings held in connection with the Semi-centennial 
Anniversary. | 
Adams, James F. Britton, E. G. 
Atkinson, George F. Britton, N. L. 
Banker, H. J. Broadhurst, Jean 
Barnhart, John H. Burgess, Edward S. 
Benedict, Ralph C. Burlingham, Gertrude S. 
Blakeslee, A. F. Cassebeer, Н. А., Tr. 
Boas, Helene M. Chamberlain, Edward B. 
Boynton, K. R. Concanon, J. J. 
