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on a walk that offers patches of prickly pear on a wood road "that 

 riins through an abandoned farm and then through primeval 

 forest. After three quarters of a mile of this one comes to a 

 lane to the left lined with cedars. Following this down to the 

 edge of Franklin Lake— by leaving the birches and keeping 

 straight ahead one comes to a brook trickling down a cascade." 

 But all of the one hundred and more walks, varying from two 

 to sixteen miles for one-day hikes with a few longer ones for week- 

 end trips, are full of such suggestive notes. Following the 

 descriptions is an appendix with a list of outing clubs (the Torrey 

 Botanical Club and the Wild Flower Preservation Society are 

 listed), of stopping places for overnight hikes, of equipment for 

 the trail, of fire laws and regulations in New York, Pennsylvania, 

 Connecticut, and Massachusetts, of geology and physical 

 geography of the district and of the plant life. The book 

 contains nine maps, modified from the U. S. Geological Survey, 

 and eighty pen and ink sketches. 



G. T. Hastings. 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE CLUB 



Meeting of October 9, 1923 



The meeting was held at the American Museum of Natural 

 History. 



Mr, E. P. Larkin, Flushing, N. Y., and Miss Zaida Nicholson, 

 New York City, were elected to membership. 



The Secretary announced, with regret, the death of two 

 members, that of Mr. William S. Opdyke on Oct. 20, 1922, and 

 that of Prof. W. W. Rowlee on August 8, 1923. 



The program of the evening consisted of informal reports on 

 summer work and excursions. 



Dr. Denslow stated that he had spent ten weeks in Fairlee, 

 Vermont, and that in nine previous summers he had found in 

 that town a total of 33 species of orchids within a radius of about 

 2% miles. This year one species, Calopogon pulchellus, was 

 added to the previous numbfer. On the 7th of July, about 500 

 plants of Cypripedium hirsutum, the showy lady's slipper, were 

 found in one swampy locality. One of the flowers, showing a 

 double lip, was sent to the herbarium of the N. Y. Botanical 

 Garden. At Hewitt, New Jersey, later in the season, the fringed 



