FIELD TRIPS OF THE CLUB 
Tue 1931 FIELD PROGRAM 
The program of field meetings of the Torrey Botanical Club, 
which will appear in the usual printed booklet form not later 
than May 1, promises to be fuller and richer than ever before, 
thanks to increased cooperation of old and new leaders. These 
excursions will be announced, in case they are prior to the mailing 
of the booklet, in the weekly bulletin of the New York Academy 
of Sciences. - 
High lights of the program will be an excursion on the Pali- 
sades, for liverworts, led by Dr. Marshall A. Howe, Assistant 
Director of the New York Botanical Garden, Saturday, May 16; 
the annual Branchville, N.J., joint gathering with the Sussex 
Nature Club and others, led by Mr. and Mrs. William Gavin 
Taylor of Arlington, N.J., May 23-24: a trip to the southern Cat- 
skills over the Memorial Day week-end; joint trips at High Hill 
Beach, LI June 20-21 and August 22-23, with the Reptile Study 
Society, led by Miss Nellie L. Condon ; a Fourth-of-July week-end 
at Dr. Will S. Monroe’s farm, at North Duxbury, Vt., led by Mr. 
and Mrs. W. G..Taylor; a study of the botany of beaver dams, in 
the Harriman State Park, July 12, led by William H. Carr, cura- 
tor of the Nature Museum at Bear Mountain; a trip to Sandy 
Hook, led by Prof. M. A. Chrysler of Rutgers University, July 19; 
a week in the northern Catskills, August 24-30, led by Dr. Alfred 
Gundersen, of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden ; two trips at Mineola, 
L.I., June 28 and September 27, for myxomycetes, led by Robert 
Hagelstein ; and three excursions for the study of fungi, June 14 
and October 4, at Grassy Sprain, Westchester County, led by 
Dr. Michael Levine; and September 20, at Franklin Lake, New 
Jersey, led by Dr. William S. Thomas ; besides many others, fill- 
ing nearly every Saturday afternoon and Sunday until December 
1. Volunteers for an alternative Fourth-of-July week-end nearer 
New York City and for a Columbus Day week-end are desired. 
Raymonp H. TORREY 
Chairman Field Committee 
Fietp TRIP of SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 1 
_ A brisk northwest wind and a temperature of 16°F. did R 
discourage 18 members and guests of the Torrey Botanical Clu 
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