On Sunday, June 7, a field day ex. ursion to Cliffwood, N. J., arranged by 

 Mr. Frank I). Tarlsley, president of the ['atria Club of New York, was partici- 

 pated in by certain members of our Association and by delegates from the 

 Brooklyn 'institute of Arts and Sciences, the Brooklyn Garden, the Torrey 

 Botanical Club and by members of the teaching staff in educational institu- 

 tions of New York and vicinity. The total number in attendance was 63. 



The Cliffwood locality is on the shore of Raritan Bay, a short distance 

 west of Keyport. It is of special int. rest botanically on account of a series 

 of hybrid oaks which grow there— Quercus Kudlinii Britton, a cross between 

 the black-jack and the willow oak, and Quercus heterophylla Michaux, a cross 

 between the red and the willow oak. These trees were discovered in 1881 

 and described by Dr. N. L. Britton in the Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical 

 ( ]uh. vol. IX. Feb,, 1882. Since that time dozens of botanists have visited 

 tiie locality and examined the trees, and many seedlings have been raised and 

 propagated from acorns collected from them, some of which, in the New York 

 and the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens, are now thrifty and promising looking 

 trees. 



This locality is also of interest geologically by reason of the clay marl 

 strata which are exposed in the face of the bluff fronting the Bay. These 

 strata, comprising the Cliffwood formation of the New Jersey Cretaceous de- 

 posits, contain abundant fossil remains of marine animals and land plants, 

 a number of specimens of which were collected. 



After lunch, Mr. Tansley made a few remarks on the success of the ex- 

 cursion, and brief addresses were then delivered, on the geological features 

 of the locality, by Dr. Arthur Hollick ; on the botany, with special reference 

 to the oak trees, by Mr. Norman Taylor of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden; on 

 hybridization in general, by Professor R. A. Harper of Columbia University 

 and Dr. C. S. Gager of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. 



More or less extended press notices of the excursion appeared on Monday, 

 June 8, in the New York Evening Post and Globe, and the Brooklyn Eagle — 

 the latter excellently illustrated. 



During the month of May, accessions were received from Howard R. 

 Bavne. T. A. Braniff, Wm. T. Davis, Mrs. E. Davis, Mrs. Theo. W. Davis, E. C. 

 Delavan. Jr.. Mrs. John A. Grossbeck, Arthur Hollick, Ralph McKee, Mrs. 

 Mary Milliken, Wm. J. O'Breen, Stewart Ogilby, Henry Scharfenstein, San- 

 derson Smith, John T. Sprague, Miss Frances M. Tollett. 



Among the accessions may be specially mentioned that contributed by Mrs. 

 Milliken, inasmuch as space is available for its display, and it has attracted 

 considerable attention and elicited many expressions of interest. This is a 

 large, framed, colored lithograph, showing the Eighth Regiment, New York 

 State Troops, on special duty at Camp "Washington (now the site of the 

 B. & O. freight yard at St. George), September 11 to 28, 1858, following the 

 burning of the Quarantine buildings by the citizens of the Island on the nights 

 of September 1 and 2 of that year. Jay street had not been established at 

 that time, and the entire area from Stuyvesant Place to the water was a 

 gently sloping plain, known as the "Brighton Flats," excellently adapted for 

 a military encampment. The locality as depicted in this old lithograph would 

 hardly be recognized by those who only know it as it is today. 



Entered as 2d-clasa matter in the P.O. at New Brighton, N. v., under Act of Congress, July 16. 1904 



