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by the Surrogate of Westchester C'oiint\- on Marcli 14th, con- 

 tains the following prox'ision : 



"Item 6. M\- herbarium of Aster specimens, so 

 far as now stored in in\ residence, I give to the New 

 \'ork Botanical Gardens to supplement those which 

 I ha\e already given there." 



The specimens were recie\ed from Mrs. Burgess on June 

 7th, and at a meeting of the Scientilic Directors held June Oth 

 the following minute was authorized: 



The collection of herbarium specimens of Xorth American 

 Asters formed during many years of study by Professor Edward 

 Sandford Burgess, bequeathed by him to The New York 

 Botanical Garden, received from Mrs. Burgess in June 1928, 

 is a noteworthy addition of the herbarium of the institution. 

 It fully illustrates all the plants described by him in "Species 

 and Variations of Biotian Asters, with Discussion of Varia- 

 bility in Asters," published in 1906 as the thirteenth \olume of 

 Memoirs of the Torrey Botanical Club, following his learned 

 "Histor\- of Pre-Clusian Botany in its relation to Aster," 

 published in \'olume ten of these Memoirs. 



Professor Burgess had been an Annual Member of the 

 Garden since 1906, and he served as a Scientific Director during 

 1912 and 1913, while President of the Torrey Botanical Club. 



The specimens supplementing those already given by him 

 will be deposited in the herbarium of the Garden. 



An appreciative record of his life and work has been written 

 by Dr. Howe for publication in Bulletin of the Torre>' Botanical 

 Club. 



X. L. Brittox. 



TORREY BOTANICAL CLUB FIELD TRIPS 



Walking Fern was observed by members of the Torrey 

 Botanical Club, on summer field trips, in two localities of ex- 

 ceptional interest, where geological conditions e\idently 

 governed the occurrence of the species. On July 15, on a walk 

 from Arden, N. Y., through the western part of the Harriman 

 State Park, over the Arden-Surebridge Trail, and the Sure- 

 bridge Mine Road, the party was led to a limestone boulder, 

 of a formation found in the Wallkill Valley, twenty miles 

 northwest, a glacial fragment transported to the region and 



