FIELD TRIPS OF THE CLUB 



Field Trip of October 5th. Mr. R. C. Geist, vice president of 

 the Metropolitan Council of Geography Teachers, sends a 

 report of the field meeting at Cross River, Westchester County, 

 which was a joint excursion of the Torrey Botanical Club and 

 and council. Fourteen members and guests made the trip 

 starting from the Bronx Botanical Garden in three automobiles. 

 Dr. Michael Levine was the leader, and the subject, Fall fungi, 

 which were studied in the woods about West Lake, on Cross 

 River. A small rattlesnake was seen. Luncheon was enjoyed in 

 one of the shelters in the Pound Ridge Reservation of the 

 Westchester County Park Commission. The Fall coloring offered 

 another subject for study. The automobiles were furnished by 

 Dr. Levine, Miss Mabel E. Rice of the Julia Richman High 

 School and Mr. Alexander L. Jessup, president of the Catskill 

 Mountain Club; several members could not join for lack of 

 additional motor accomodations. 



Week-end Trip of October 1 1 to 13 

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The convenience, flexibility and speed of automobile trans- 

 portation, for covering a wide field of botanical study, was 

 demonstrated, for a small party, in one car provided by Mr. 

 Louis W. Anderson, of Elizabeth, N. J., on the Columbus Day 

 week end at Delaware Water Gap. Headquarters were made at 

 Witzel's Killmont Farm, at Columbia, N. J. On Oct. 11, the 

 party of five climbed Mount Minsi, on the Pennsylvania side of 

 the Gap, and followed the Appalachian Trail westward, includ- 

 ing the fire lookout, which gives splendid views up and down the 

 river and over the Blue Ridge and Poconos. On the 12th, 

 Mount Tammany, on the New Jersey side, was climbed, and 

 the party inscribed their names and that of the club in the regis- 

 ter placed on the summit by Clement Haupt of Belvidere, N. J. 

 A new stand of Walking Fern was found on Dunnfield Creek, 

 on a sandstone stratum, probably rather high in lime. In an 

 abandoned slate quarry, south of Mount Tammany, remark- 

 able sheets of the Liverwort, Conocephallus conicus, were found, 

 colonies ten feet long and four feet wide, with unusually large 

 lobed fronds, on smooth faces of the highly tilted slate, wet 

 by dripping water. 



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