20 SEMI-CENTENNIAL OF ToRREY BOTANICAL CLUB 
Train's Meadows, Long Island, especially to collect Scleria ver- 
ticillata, first found by him there in 1874. Dr. Denslow we still 
have with us; Mr. H. A. Cassebeer, Jr., will attend the dinner 
this evening. 
Professor D. C. Eaton was vigorously pursuing his fern studies 
at Yale and sent communications for the Bulletin; І do not re- 
member seeing him at any meeting, but I visited him at New 
Haven. Mr. G. W. Wright and Mr. William Chorlton, both of 
Staten Island, contributed much to the interest of meetings by 
bringing specimens of both wild and cultivated plants. Judge 
Addison Brown had already commenced his active participation 
in the affairs of the Club and his important influence on American 
с botany by forming an herbarium, and for a number of years 
attended nearly every field-meeting. Mr. J. H. Redfield, of 
Philadelphia, made occasional contributions to the Bulletin; І do 
not think that he was ever present at a meeting which I attended, 
but I visited him later in Philadelphia. Professor Joseph Schrenk, 
almost our only plant anatomist and physiologist of those years, 
` was at the Hoboken Academy and subsequently at the College 
of Pharmacy; he was a keen observer, and I recollect searching for 
Schizaea with him at Tom’s River for a day without finding any, 
but he took in a sod of Drosera for experimental purposes, and 
shortly afterward found that he had Schizaea in the same sod! 
r. Cornelius Van Brunt was pursuing studies of diatoms and his 
collections subsequently came to the New York Botanical Garden; 
he was present at a number of field-meetings and helped found the 
New York Microscopical Society. j 
Professor Alphonso Wood, of the College of Pharmacy, re- 
sided at West Farms, where I once visited him with others of the 
Club and the party walked up the Bronx Valley through the whole 
length of the present New York Botanical Garden reservation, on 
which occasion I first saw the pot-holes, located near the west end 
of the present Boulder Bridge, which I described in the Transac- 
tions of the New York Academy of Sciences in 1881; it was this 
trip that gave me my first knowledge of the natural beauties of the 
Bronx Valley. Professor Wood had at that time about completed 
his long series of noteworthy text-books. Dr. O. R. Willis, a 
diligent student of the local flora, resided at White Plains and at- 
