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the present specimen grew at some distance from its final resting 

 place and that after a period of desiccation it was brought down 

 by some temporarily swollen stream to the estuary where it 

 finally became water -logged and deposited. 



Remains oi Juglans are not abundant in the Pleistocene de- 

 posits and so far as I know nuts have not heretofore been de- 

 scribed from our American Pleistocene. In Europe \.\\c Jiiglaizs 

 tephrodes Unger of the Pliocene persists in the Lower Pleistocene 

 of the Netherlands : Juglans rcgia Linne is recorded from a 

 number of Pleistocene localities in France, Italy, and Germany ; 

 and fruits practically identical with the present species and de- 

 scribed as Juglans nigra var. fossilis by Kinkelin * occur in the 

 Upper Pliocene of Germany. Both genera have a long and in- 

 teresting geological history, the records of Juglans antedating 

 those of Hicoria by a considerable interval of time, since the first 

 recorded species of the former are found in strata of Mid-Creta- 

 ceous age while the latter has not been found as yet until toward 

 the close of the Upper Cretaceous. 



Johns Hopkins University, 

 Baltimore, Maryland 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE CLUB 

 March 9, 1909 



The meeting was called to order at the American Museum of 

 Natural History at 8:30 p. m., with Dr. E. B. South wick in the 

 chair. About fifty persons were present. After the reading and 

 approval of the minutes of the preceding meeting, the resignation 

 of Mr. E. L. Rogers was read and accepted. The Club then 

 listened to a very interesting lecture on " Ferns " by Mr. Ralph 

 C. Benedict. The lecture was illustrated by lantern slides made 

 from photographs taken by the speaker. 



The meeting adjourned. Percy Wilson, 



Secretary 

 March 31, 1909 



The meeting was held at the Museum of the New York Botan- 

 ical Garden at 3:30 p. m., with Dr. J. H. Barnhart in the chair. 



*Kink., Senckenb. Abhandl. 29": 237.//. 30./. 8, g. 1908. 



