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b^' Dr. H. A. Gleason was postponed on account of the illness 

 of Dr. Gleason. Dr. G. Clyde Fisher gave a most interesting 

 illustrated talk on "John Burroughs and his Favorite Haunts." 

 Many of the lantern-slides were concerned with plants of the 

 Hudson River valley and the Catskill Mountains. 



Marshall A. Howe 

 Secretary 

 Meeting of February 22, 1922. 

 As the fourth Wednesday in February coincided with a legal 

 holiday, the second meeting for the month of February was 

 omitted. 



Marshall A. Howe 

 Secretary 

 NEWS ITEMS 



Dr. and Mrs. N. L. Britton returned to New York on April 10, 

 having devoted several months to botanical explorations in Porto 

 Rico. 



Dr. Francis W. Pennell, who was Secretary and Treasurer of 

 the Torrey Botanical Club during the greater parts of 1920 and 

 1 92 1, is now Curator of Botany in the Academy of Natural Scien- 

 ces of Philadelphia. His former position as Associate Curator 

 at the New York Botanical Garden has been taken by Mr. James 

 A. Crawford, formerly of the Buffalo Botanic Garden. Dr. 

 Pennell recently left with his wife to spend some months col- 

 lecting in Columbia, S. C. 



An obituary notice of the late George Valentine Nash, who 

 was for twenty years Head Gardener of the New York Botanical 

 Garden and for even a longer period a member of the Torrey 

 Botanical Club, appears in the Journal of the Neiu York Botanical 

 Garden for last August. 



Through the personal generosity of Dr. N. L. Britton, the 

 New York Botanical Garden has acquired the collection of algae 

 left by Mr. F. S. Collins of Maiden, and later of North 

 Eastham, Mass. This collection includes more than 40,000 

 specimens and is doubtless one of the largest private collections 

 of its kind in existence. The late Mr. Collins was the author of 

 a well-known monograph on "The Green Algae of North America 

 and of other important papers on the algae of the United State 

 Bermuda, Jamaica, etc. 



