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elucidation of the native plants and their distribution, particularly within a radius of 100 

 miles of New York City — the so-called Torrey Range — and 



Whereas, the preservation of representative samples of native vegetation is essential to 

 the continued study and teaching of floristics, and 



Whereas, the area incorporated as the Borough of Island Beach represents a unique 

 example of seashore vegetation, the only undisturbed and well developed area of this type 

 of vegetation of any considerable size in New Jersey and the adjacent states. 



Be it resolved: that the Torrey Botanical Club deplores the threat to transform this 

 area into a public State Park of the type implied in recent specific proposals of the State 

 Department of Economic Development. 



And be it further resolved: that the Torrey Botanical Club urges that the Federal 

 Government take over this area and administer it as a National Seashore through the 

 National Park Service. 



Dr. Small made the following motion : 



I move the adoption of the above resolution, that it be spread upon the Minutes of the 

 Club, that it be printed in Torreya, and that copies of it be sent to the State of New Jersey 

 Department of Economic Development, the Governor of New Jersey, Congressman 

 Auchincloss, and the National Park Service. 



It was seconded by Miss Hanson and carried unanimously. 



The scientific program of the afternoon consisted of a very interesting 

 illustrated discussion by Prof. John M. Fogg, "Studies on the Pennsylvania 

 Flora." The speaker's abstract follows : 



During the forty-two years which have elapsed since the appearance of Porter's "Flora 

 of Pennsylvania," a real need has developed for a more recent and more comprehensive 

 account of the plant life of the State. 



With the objective of preparing such a treatment, a group of graduate students, under 

 the direction of the speaker, has for the last ten years devoted serious effort to field work 

 in many of the sixty-seven counties of Pennsylvania. Collections made as the result of a 

 great many field trips have been supplemented by material in the Herbarium of the Uni- 

 versity of Pennsylvania, as well as by specimens housed in the Academy of Natural 

 Sciences of Philadelphia, the State Museum in Harrisburg, the Carnegie Museum in 

 Pittsburgh, and the Department of Botany at State College. All of these institutions have 

 generously made their material available, so that it has been possible to examine well over 

 200,000 sheets and to incorporate the information which they contain into our records. 



For the purpose of recording data, a special card, approximately 10 x 14 inches, and 

 composed of 100 percent rag paper, has been selected. There is at least one such card for 

 each of the approximately 2,500 species and varieties of vascular plants known to occur 

 in the State. Each card has printed on it, in geographical sequence, the names of the coun- 

 ties, and on each card is recorded, by means of a flat-bed typewriter, the essential informa- 

 tion contained on the collector's label, such as exact locality, collector's name and serial 

 number, and a symbol indicating the herbarium in which the specimen is housed. 



Accompanying each record card is another card of the same size and material, on 

 which is printed an outline map of the State showing county divisions, principal rivers 

 and streams, and lines indicating the extent of placiation, the front of the Appalachian 

 Plateau, the line of the Blue Mountains and the Fall Line. The localities contained on the 

 record card are then transferred to the outline map in the form of black dots, so that for 

 each recorded locality there Js a corresponding dot on the map. The entering of these dots 



