49 

 Report of the Field Committee for the Year 1939 



Of the 85 Torrey Botanical Club field meetings, 8.3 were held 

 and two were cancelled by the leaders. Both of these were meetings 

 where advance registration with the leader was required. In only 

 one instance did no one show up to participate in a trip. In two 

 instances the leader did not appear, but the trips were held. In four 

 instances the leader arranged to turn the trip over to another. 



Of the 85 trips held we have reports on 80. 1135 people par- 

 ticipated, making an average of slightly over 14 per trip. The num- 

 bers run from one, the trip where no one came but the leader, to 

 92 at the Branchville Nature Conference. As in past years we held 

 joint outings with other clubs. Besides the New York Microscopical, 

 New York Mycological and Connecticut Botanical Societies, we 

 went afield with the American Fern Society, Claytonia, Litchfield 

 Garden Club, Muhlenberg Botanical Society, Newark Museum 

 Nature Club, the Philadelphia Botanical Club, the Southern Ap- 

 palachian Botanical Club, Summit Nature Club, Watching Nature 

 Club, and the Western Pennsylvania Botanical Society. In addition 

 Ave should acknowledge the indebtedness to institutions whose stafif 

 members assisted as leaders. These are the American Museum of 

 Natural History, Bartlett Tree Research Laboratories, Boyce 

 Thompson Institute for Plant Research, Brooklyn Botanic Garden, 

 Brooklyn Institute, The College of the City of New York, Colum- 

 bia University, including Teachers College, Fordham University, 

 Montifiore Hospital, Newark Museum, Newark State Teachers 

 College, New York Botanical Garden, Palisades Interstate Park, 

 Rutgers University, New Jersey College for Women, School Nature 

 League, Pennsylvania State College, Staten Island Institute of 

 Arts and Sciences, Theodore Roosevelt High School, University 

 of Pennsylvania, Laiiversity of West Virginia, and Vassar College. 

 A year ago I pointed out the high caliber of our faculty in the Out- 

 door University. The foregoing makes the point, since we find onl}- 

 a few in each institution with the requisite ability. We are pleased 

 to include the Pennsylvania State Botanist, the present New Jersey 

 State Geologist, and the former New Jersey State Geologist. 



The Chairman wishes to express his appreciation of the work 

 of those members of the Field Committee whose work made the 

 schedule possible and who participated as leaders, particularly to 



