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its Proceedings. Among the more valuable complete sets may- 

 be mentioned the Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club, Science, 

 the American Naturalist, the Report of the Missouri Botanical 

 Garden, the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, the 

 Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, the Re- 

 ports of the Smithsonian Institution and of the U. S. Geological 

 Surv^ey, etc. Many of these are not to be found elsewhere on 

 Staten Island. 



The library has recently been enriched by a donation of 150 

 miscellaneous scientific books from Dr. Arthur Hollick, and will 

 also receive as a deposit about the same number of volumes from 

 the library of the curator. 



THE BOTANICAL SYMPOSIUM, AT NEWTON, NEW 



JERSEY 



The fourth annual Botanical Symposium was held, as pre- 

 viously announced in Torreya, at Newton, Sussex County, New 

 Jersey, during the week of July 1-7, 1907, with headquarters at 

 the Hotel Waldmere. Beside a few local visitors, there were 

 twenty-five in attendance. 



Monday, July i. — Most of the party arrived on the afternoon 

 of the first day and had time for a short walk in the immediate 

 vicinity, so that at the first meeting, held in the evening, several 

 interesting finds were reported. Limestone ridges running north- 

 east and southwest through the region of Newton afford condi- 

 tions favorable to the growth of some interesting plants. Among 

 these were noted Arabis laevigata (Muhl.) Poir., Qiierais aaimi- 

 nata (Michx.) Houba, Aspleniiun platyneiiron (L.) Oakes, A. 

 Riita-muraria L., A. TricJiomancs L., Camptosorus rhizophylbis 

 (L.) Link, Filix fragilis (L.) Underw., Pcllaea atropiirpurea (L.) 

 Link, and Woodsia obtiisa (Spreng.) Torr. In the swampy 

 ground there were Almis incaiia (L.) Willd., Betida piunila L., 

 Eqidsctinn fliiviatde L., and Mochringia lateriflora (L.) Fenzl. 

 The following were noted as weeds : AniJieinis arvensis L. (com- 

 mon), Lepidiiim apetalwn W^illd., Pentstenwn Digitalis (Sweet) 

 Nutt. (abundant), and Scroplmlaria leporella Bicknell. Malva 



