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tended many meetings of the Club, contributing notes and speci- 
mens. Dr. L. Schoeney, a practicing physician, was in those 
years perhaps the most constant attendant at both field and her- 
barium meetings, and continued his interest over a long series of 
years. Dr. Arthur Hollick, who was elected in 1877, at the same 
time I was, is one of the few living persons who has maintained 
continuous membership in the Club since that time; he was active 
. with me in the study of Staten Island plants and our collections 
of those years are preserved in the herbarium of the Staten Island 
Association of Arts and Sciences. 
Dr. Newberry, then in the midst of his paleobotanical studies, 
occasionally came to the meetings, being elected to membership in 
1878, and became President to succeed Dr. Thurber in January, 
1880. He had an enormous fund of botanical information and 
was able to throw light on almost every topic brought up for con- 
sideration; as his assistant in the School of Mines for a series of 
years subsequent to 1879, it was my good fortune to be closely 
associated with a naturalist of his renown. Miss Elizabeth G. 
Knight (subsequently Mrs. Britton), elected in 1879, had already 
absorbed enthusiastic interest in plants and animals, through 
association with Dr. Newberry and with Professor Edward H. Day, 
of the Normal College, who was elected to the Club in 1880 and 
who subsequently participated in many field-meetings. Рго- 
fessor Day was a most jovial naturalist, a pupil of Huxley, and of 
very broad information. Не led a field-meeting once into Mon- 
mouth County to see Lygodium, and perpetrated a pun in wanting 
to know why that tramp was like rum, which he expounded by 
maintaining that it was a sandy cruise (Santa Cruz)! Asa popu- 
lar professor of the Normal College, Professor Day is remembered 
with affection by a large number of students. Mr. Eugene P. 
Bicknell, who was elected in 1880, had already commenced his 
critical studies of the local flora, especially of what is now the 
Borough of the Bronx, and had begun the formation of his exten- 
sive herbarium; he attended herbarium meetings with much regu- 
larity and contributed frequent notes and specimens. Mr. 
William H. Rudkin, subsequently and for many years Treasurer 
of the Club, became a member in 1878, and for a long period con- 
tributed important aid to the work of the organization, attending 
