FIELD TRIPS OF THE CLUB 

 Trip of August 6-8 to Mount Marcy 



Dr. Alfred Gundersen of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden 

 gives the following report on the week end trip in the northern 

 Adirondack?, including a climb of Mount Marcy with the joint 

 leadership of himself and Dr. Lloyd Rider: 



"I have been above timber line many times in Norway, in 

 Switzerland and in the Rockies, but in the eastern states only 

 on Mount Moosilauke, in the White Mountains. The thrill of 

 Mount Marcy to the members of our party was very great, 

 though near or beyond the limit of endurance to the older mem- 

 bers. 



"On the summit of Slide Mountain, in the Catskills, is a 

 quotation from Burroughs, 'Here the words of man dwindle,' 

 which would apply even more strongly to Marcy. Recom- 

 mended as an antidote to race and war ideas." 



"Remarkable resemblance between Norwegian and Mount 

 Marcy alpines. Particularly interested to see the yellow lichen 

 Rhizocarpon geographicum, which presumably covers all sum- 

 mits between New York, Alaska and Norway. The Norwegian 

 Lycopodium Selago, larger and less green. Empetrum nigrum, 

 Diapensia lapponica, Rhododendron lapponicum, and Vaccinium 

 uliginosiim, very similar in the two regions. The sudden change 

 of vegetation on coming on the Summit of Marcy contrasts 

 strongly with Norway conditions." 



The party numbered ten, including Dr. Gundersen, Dr. 

 Rider, Dr. George Wood and members of their families. 



Trip of Sunday, August 29, to the 

 Ellenville Ice Caves 



Mr. Fred R. Lewis, leader of the trip to the Ice Caves on the 

 Shawangunk Mountain, near Ellenville, N.Y., reports on it as 

 follows : 



"One of the objectives of this trip was fossil footprints 

 (which Mr. Lewis had reported finding many years ago). We 

 failed to locate them, but found fossil sea worms in North Gully. 

 (Perhaps graptolites, which are recorded in the geological liter- 

 ature, as in the shales included in the Shawangunk Grit.) The 

 Ice Caves are very interesting; there are five or six fissures, one 



