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officers of the Club appointed at the last meeting to select 

 representatives for Section G of the American Association for 

 the Advancement of Science, had chosen Dr. R. A. Harper of Col- 

 umbia University and Dr. J. Arthur Harris of the University of 

 Minnesota. This selection was ratified by unanimous vote 

 of the Club. 



In the discussion as to the method of selection of these repre- 

 sentatives in the future, it was brought out that the present 

 Constitution gives no authority for the selection of a representa- 

 tive in the Council of the New York Academy of Sciences. 

 It was therefore voted that the method of appointment of all 

 these delegates be left to a committee consisting of the officers 

 of the Club for future report. The Secretary read the amend- 

 ments to the Constitution proposed by Dr. Barnhart at the 

 Meeting of March 30 and by Dr. Britton at the Meeting of 

 April 27. 



Miss Nicholson reported on her recent visit to Montauk Park, 

 Long Island, and to the Arnold Arboretum. At the former 

 place the fields were vividly colored by asters and goldenrod. 

 Mr. Taylor spoke of his botanical survey during the past summer 

 of Alleghany State Park, a tract of 65,000 acres south of Buffalo, 

 New York, perhaps 75% of which is trackless forest. Very 

 few fires have occurred here, and as a result of this combined 

 with frequent rains, the humus is deep. The maximum tempera- 

 ture in July and Aug. was 76° this year in the Birch-Beech 

 Maple forest, and was often comparatively low at night — between 

 35 and 40°. There is much of the Beech-Birch-Maple associa- 

 tion with a little Hemlock intermixed. White pine was cut out 

 years ago, but there is some fir. Many plants not found in the 

 Greater New York region, or only rarely so, are abundant there, 

 e. g. Monarda didyma, Rudheckia laciniata, Hydrophyllum 

 canadense. Dr. Cheney mentioned the very comprehensive 

 collection of trees at Letchworth Park, N. Y. Near the falls 

 there is a unique stand of timber with some individuals of great 

 age. He remarked on the abundance of the common Forget- 

 me-not {Myosotis scorpioides L.) in the roadside gutters on the 

 outskirts of Alfred, New York. Dr. Gundersen reported on 

 the plants on the summit of Black Dome, Greene Co., N. Y. 

 3990 ft., where 26 species of vascular plants were found the past 

 summer. It is interesting to note, he said, that of the maples, 



