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sary that the instructor have a fundamentally broad training in the 

 field of botany ; he cannot be a beginning graduate student interested 

 primarily in getting his degree, with his teaching a bothersome chore 

 to be sandwiched in at odd hours. He must know that the educator, 

 if he aspires to be worthy of the real meaning of the word, must do 

 more than stand in front of a group of students droning over phrases 

 which he has hastily snatched from a book a few minutes before class 

 time — and from the same text the students were supposed to have 

 "studied" the night before. The philosophical background of the 

 course has led to an organization designed to awaken in the student 

 an intelligent awareness of the nature of living organisms through a 

 study of plants. Under the guidance of a competent and sympathetic 

 instructor, this can be accomplished. 



New York Botanical Garden W. H. Camp 



New York, N. Y. 



FIELD TRIPS OF THE CLUB 

 Trip of November 2, 1941, Along the Appalachian Trail 



Ten members and guests were present on this trip whose pur- 

 pose was to continue the botanical survey and census being made 

 by the Club of the New Jersey sections of the Appalachian Trail 

 maintained by the New York-New Jersey Trails Conference. In 

 the morning we covered the Dunfield Creek route from the Dela- 

 ware River to Sunfish Pond (Section la) and in the afternoon the 

 blazed route from Sunfish Pond back to the Delaware River ( Sec- 

 tion 1), covering slightly over nine miles of trail in all. The 

 weather was intensely cold. 



According to the official records in Dr. Small's office there have 

 been identified thus far by Club members in Section 1 166 species 

 and varieties of spermatophytes, 11 pteridophytes, 4 bryoph3'tes, 

 8 fungi, and 24 lichens. In Section la there have been found 

 159 species and varieties of spermatophytes, 17 pteridophytes, 

 15 bryophytes, 18 fungi, and 39 lichens. The total number of 

 different species and varieties from both areas taken together is as 

 follows: spermatophytes, 238; pteridophytes, 19; bryophytes, 17; 

 fungi, 22 ; and lichens, 43. 



Among the most interesting plants observed by us on our trip 

 through Section la were the American dittany {Cunila origa- 



