Volume 8 
SUPPLEMENT 
Number 2 
The Plant World 
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FEBRUARY, 1905 
REPORT OF A BOTANICAL SYMPOSIUM HELD AT 
McCALL’S FERRY, PA., JULY i, 1904. 
At a joint meeting of the Torrey Botanical Club with the Phila¬ 
delphia and Washington Clubs, at McCall’s Ferry in the Susque¬ 
hanna River Valley, York and Lancaster Counties, July 1, 1904, 
is was unanimously declared that the Symposium of American 
Botanists there inaugurated become an annual occasion of a 
week’s duration, at a locality selected at the previous meeting and 
publicly announced in the botanical journals. 
As the simplest form of organization it was resolved to elect 
a chairman each evening but to have a permanent recorder. 
The object of the symposium is twofold: one scientific, the 
other social, the latter to extend acquaintanceship among botan¬ 
ists by a week’s sojourn together, and the former to investigate 
plant life in the region visited and to discuss botanical subjects 
in general. 
As we reached the ferry quite late on July 1, all field work was 
practically out of the question for that day. Saturday morning 
was spent along the river bank south of the house, probably for 
a mile and a half or so, and the afternoon northwards along the 
river and towpath to Duncan’s Point for about the same distance. 
In the evening Dr. Nathaniel Lord Britton was elected to the 
chair and Joseph Crawford, recorder. 
Discussions of ash trees noticed during the day was the first 
topic taken up. Some good fruiting forms of Fraxinus lanceo¬ 
late F. Americana and F. Pennsylvanica were examined. Search 
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