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Wm. P. Alexander by Mr. Chauncey J. Hamlin, President of the 

 Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences. 



To some of us the conference was a means of discovering the 

 Allegany School of Natural History — an ideal place for the sys- 

 tematic study of nature under expert guidance, where college 

 credits may be earned and independent research pursued in sur- 

 roundings conducive to greatest accomplishments. 



Alexandra Kalmykow 

 New York City 



Trip of June 30 to Montauk Point 



The party spent some time in the swamp near the railroad sta- 

 tion and on the neighboring higher ground. The large-bracted ver- 

 vain, Verbena hracteata, a European plant, was found along the 

 path leading to the shore from the lighthouse. The sea-beach poppy, 

 Glaiiciimi flavum, was in full bloom and presented a fine sight in 

 the large stand far around on the Sound side of the Point. The 

 tide was coming in and algae found on the rocky coast were lit- 

 erally snatched from the waves. Later, following the shore line 

 around to the Sound side, we found great heaps of algae, mostly 

 Laminaria. There was also an abundance of Corallma, Grinnelia 

 americana, Chondriis crispus and Bryopsis plumosa (a felt-like 

 alga growing on the rocks) and considerable eel-grass, Zoster a 

 maritima, which had on it an epiphytic alga. Most striking was 

 the scarcity of Ulva and Fucus, ordinarily very common every- 

 where along the beaches of Long Island. Leathesia was found epi- 

 phytic on Fucus in one instance. Two algae reported from more 

 northern situations, Massachusetts to Newfoundland, by William 

 Randolph Taylor in his Marine Algae of the Northeast Coast, 

 were found — Laminaria platymeris and PorpJiyra miniata (growing 



on Laminaria Aqardhii). ^ ^ ^ 



Dolores J . Fay 



