28 SEMI-CENTENNIAL OF TORREY BOTANICAL CLUB 
both field and herbarium meetings and aiding Mr. Leggett in the 
publication of the Bulletin; both Mrs. Britton and I were with 
Mr. and Mrs. Rudkin much during those years. 
My first botanical contribution was made to the Club in Sep- 
tember, 1877, and printed in the October Bulletin of that year; it 
is upon Rarer Plants of Staten Island, including a note on the 
sensitive stamens of the Opuntia of what is now Crooke’s Point. 
Was this a premonition of my subsequent interest in Cactaceae? 
