Rhodora 
JOURNAL OF 
THE NEW ENGLAND BOTANICAL CLUB 
Vol. 15. 
January, 1913. No. 169 
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THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE NEW ENGLAND 
BOTANICAL CLUB. 
E. F. WinunMs, Recording Secretary. 
Tue Annual Meeting of the New England Botanical Club was held 
on Friday, Dec. 6th, 1912, at 8 p. m. in the hall of the Twentieth 
Century Club, No. 3 Joy St., Boston, where our Club has held its 
meetings since Nov. 2nd, 1906. Professor Merritt L. Fernald, the 
President, occupied the Chair and there were 42 members present. 
This was the 155th meeting of the Club and as some of the proceedings 
at this meeting may be of interest to our non-resident or absent mem- 
bers an abstract of the minutes of the proceedings is given below. 
After the reading of the report of the last meeting and the report 
of the Treasurer, Prof. Wiegand, the Phaenogamic Curator, made 
his report. It appears therefrom that the Club Herbarium has pros- 
pered greatly during the past year. To quote from the report, 
* In July last, the Club Herbarium was moved into the sumptuous 
quarters in the Gray Herbarium made possible through the generosity 
of Mr. George Robert White. It now occupies the large eastern room 
in the second story of the White Laboratory, a structure wholly fire 
proof. The herbarium is housed in standard steel cases and the 
tables as well as wall cases are also of metal and hence fire proof. 
The accessions during the year have been gratifying beyond expec- 
tation. Besides many small sets from about fifty persons several 
large contributions are worthy of special mention — the Herbaria of 
Sydney Harris, Charles H. Morss, the late Edward S. Hoar of Concord, 
the herbarium of Geo. Mackie, collected chiefly at Amherst, Mass., 
the recent collections of Miss Kate Furbish, the New England portion 
