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who inspired all his associates. His herbarium forms the principal 
part of the nucleus of the Local Herbarium of the Club, which has 
in later years been expanded into the Local Herbarium of The New 
York Botanical Garden. Dr. Timothy F. Allen, a physician of 
prominence and a man of delightful personality, had already 
commenced his long-continued studies in Characeae, and was in- 
terested in obtaining specimens of these plants from all parts of 
the world. Mr. J. M. Wilbur, Secretary of the Club for many 
years, seldom missed either a field or an herbarium meeting. Dr. 
J. W. Barstow, resident of Flushing, was a frequent attendant at 
meetings and brought in many specimens. Mr. John L. Wall, 
an active microscopist, attended many field-meetings and sub- 
sequently was one of the founders of the New York Microscopical 
Society; I was closely associated with him for a period of years. 
Mr. William Bower, who had a garden of native plants at Newark, 
New Jersey, and was keen on their cultivation, rarely missed a 
field-meeting. Mr. W. R. Gerard, subsequently editor of the 
Bulletin and a man of great erudition, was pursuing his mycological 
studies. Messrs. Isaac Buchanan and James Hogg, both nursery- 
men, occasionally came to meetings and brought specimens of 
cultivated plants; Thomas Hogg, brother of James, joined the 
Club in 1882, after returning from Japan, whence he sent many 
Japanese shrubs and trees for their first introduction into the 
United States; he subsequently became a Vice-president of the 
Club and was active at its meetings; I saw a great deal of him in 
later years. Professor James Hyatt was already an enthusiastic 
microscopist, and I well remember collecting diatoms with him in 
marshy grounds now occupied by the systematic herbaceous 
plantations of The New York Botanical Garden. Mr. Co E: 
Austin, who resided at Closter, was in the midst of his important 
bryological work, but it was never my good fortune to meet him; 
after his death in 1880, Dr. Newberry sent me to Closter to buy 
his bryological collections, which thus became the nucleus of the 
great moss herbarium subsequently built up by Mrs. Britton at 
The New York Botanical Garden. Mr. M. Ruger was a regular 
attendant at all meetings and a diligent collector; a considerable 
number of his specimens are preserved in the local herbarium; one 
of the first field-meetings I remember was under his guidance at 
