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On Saturday afternoon, July 7, representatives of the Club 

 visited Central Park, New York City, under the guidance of Dr. 

 Edmund B. Southwick, and examined some of the rare trees and 

 shrubs there under cultivation. 



The field meeting of July 14 was devoted especially to a 

 study of the mosses, Mr. R. S. Williams acting as guide and in- 

 structor. Members of the party met at the ^Museum of the New 

 York Botanical Garden and walked thence to Van Cortlandt 

 Park, where various types of mosses were observed. 



The excursion planned for July 21, to Little Falls, N. J., was 

 prev^ented by the persistently stormy character of the day. 



On July 28, members of the Club enjoyed the hospitality of 

 Professor L. M. Underwood at Redding, Connecticut, where 

 numerous gorges and wooded ravines offer an interesting flora. 

 Flowering or fruiting specimens representing thirty-seven natural 

 families of seed-plants were collected. 



The field meeting of August 4 was an excursion especially for 

 marine algae. Hunter's Island, which is on Long Island Sound 

 within the limits of New York City, was visited, with Dr. 

 Marshall A. Howe as guide. Gracilaria coufervoides (L.) Grev, 

 was among the rare and more interesting species found. 



NEWS ITEMS 



Dr. J. N. Rose, associate curator of the Division of Plants, 

 U. S. National Museum, left Washington August i, to continue 

 his botanical explorations in Mexico. 



Professor C. F. Baker, botanist of the Estacion Agronomica 

 Central de Cuba, has recently spent a month or more in the 

 United States, returning to Cuba on August 15. 



Homer D. House, associate professor of botany and bacteri- 

 ology in Clemson College, was engaged during the month of 

 July in holding farmers' institutes in various parts of South 

 Carolina. 



Dr. Augustine Henry, well known by his travels and botan- 

 ical collections in China and Formosa, arrived in New York on 

 the Majestic, August 3, for a tour of the United States and Canada. 



