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seen. The greatest area of the Park is an Oak-Hickory forest 

 typical of the region in which the Park is located. It is in an 

 advanced state of development with good reproduction and 

 some invasion of the Beech-Maple association in parts of the 

 Park. In earlier times there was an abundance of Chestnut, 

 which succumbed to the blight disease and is now represented 

 only by frequent dead trees, stumps, and sprout reproduction. 

 Among the most pleasing things at the Park is the hospital- 

 ity of the superintendent, Mr. C. E. Pollock, and the way that 

 he has developed the Park by cutting narrow footpaths with a 

 minimum of disturbance of the native plants. There is almost 

 no introduction of foreign species nor is there any attempt to 

 rearrange the native ones, a pleasant contrast to the situation 

 at many parks. 



John A. Small 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE CLUB 

 Meeting of March 1, 1938 



The meeting of the Torrey Botanical Club held at the 

 American Museum of Natural History on March 1, was called 

 to order by the vice-president. Dr. Alfred Gunderson. There 

 were 38 persons present. The minutes of the meetings of Febru- 

 ary 1st and February 16 were read and approved. 



Dr. William G. Howe, Bronx, N. Y.; Dr. T. D. Earle, Dept. 

 of Botany, University of Minnesota; Mr. Herbert A. McCul- 

 lough, Pittsburgh, Penn. ; and Mr. Kenneth Kopf, Milford, Conn. 

 were unanimously elected annual members of the Club. 



Herbert Pollack, Jackson Heights, Long Island; Sanford S. 

 Tepfer, Brooklyn, New York, and Joseph Heikoff, Brooklyn, 

 New York were elected associates of the Club. 



A report from the committee appointed by the president to 

 draw up suitable resolutions to be sent to the families of Dr. 

 John K. Small and Mrs. Arthur H. Graves was read and was 

 accepted by a rising vote of the Club. This action is here entered 

 in the minutes of the Torrey Club: 



"The hand of death has taken from our midst one of our old- 

 est and most illustrious members. Dr. John K. Small was 

 elected to active membership in the Torrey Botanical Club, 14 

 January, 1890, while he was still an undergraduate at Franklin 



