The Syracuse Botanical Cluh. 
The BaldwinsriUe Gazette contains the follov/- 
ing; “Some ladies o£ the Syracuse Botanical 
Club visited this place last week in search of 
some rare plants—rare at least in this county. 
They were-successful in obtaining what they 
wished, and, through the hints they incidentally 
gave, the same plant was afterwards found in 
larger numbers. This club is one of the most 
valuable and efficient in the State, perhaps we 
might make no exceptions. It has done a work 
of which Onondag5\ county will 
one day be proud; a work thor¬ 
ough, systematic, and every way re¬ 
liable. The different members have in charge 
the different botanical families, and this gives 
specific employment to all. Thus far it has 
been wisely composed of residents of Syracuse, 
who could easily meet for study oi make excur¬ 
sions from that place as a centre. We would 
suggest that now they have done so much, they 
might profitibly originate local branches work¬ 
ing in harmony with them; or at least have; 
correspondents at distant and almost inaccessi¬ 
ble points in the county. In fact a county 
society of natural sciences would be a public 
good.” 
