MEETING OF THE BIOLOGICAL CLUB. 
Orton Hall, May 4, 1914. 
The meeting was called to order by Mr. Kostir and the min¬ 
utes were read and approved. There was a discussion as to a 
possible time for a field trip. It was moved and seconded to have 
a committee to arrange a possible time and place for such a trip. 
Prof. Vivian showed a long series of pictures illustrating his 
trip abroad. He began with pictures of Ireland and France. 
The most of the views were of India and Japan. 
Miss Storer told of her eugenics work in the Field. She 
showed three charts, one of a Cleveland family and two of Rural 
communities. .She showed that certain traits such as feeblemind¬ 
edness, immorality, and alcoholism will ran through an entire 
family. 
A new cockroach, much like the Paleozoic Cockroaches was 
reported. 
The meeting adjourned. 
Blanche McAvoy, Secy. 
The Ferns of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania —Pro¬ 
fessor Lewis S. Hopkins, of the State Normal School, Kent, Ohio, 
has published an admirable little manual of the ferns of Pittsburg 
and surrounding country, as Publication III of the Botanical 
Society of Western Pennsylvania. It gives not only the usual 
botanical information and keys for identification, but also notes 
on the fern haunts and habits and something of their folklore. 
It is profusely illustrated with half-tones remarkably true to 
nature. The beautiful habit pictures invite one alluringly to 
the woods. This is just the kind of booklet that is needed to 
lead the average person away from the nerve-racking life of modem 
times to the peaceful contemplation of nature. With this manual 
one should be able to identify most of the common ferns of Eastern 
Ohio. More books of this nature should be written. 
J. H. S. 
Date of Publication, February 12, 1915. 
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