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prove valuable to American students of this interesting but 
neglected order of plants. 
The Testa of Leguminous Seeds.—In addition to the list of 
authors on this subject given by Mr. L. H. Pammel in the last 
number of the BULLETIN, I would mention F. A. Fliickiger, 
Pharmacognosie des Pflanzenreiches, 1883, and W. Marmé, 
Lehrbuch Pharmacognosie, 1886. These books contain elaborate 
accounts of the histology of the Calabar bean, and also of fenu- 
greek (Zrigonella fenumgrecum, L.,) the testa of which has a 
structure very similar to that of Physostigma. : 
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Proceedings of the Club. : 
The regular monthly meeting was held at Columbia College, 
Tuesday evening, March gth. The President occupied the chair, 
and twenty-nine persons were present. The following were 
elected active members: Miss Lena T. Potter, Edward B. 
Miller and Henry C. Carter. Dr. Asa Gray was elected an 
honorary member under the amendment to the Constitution 
adopted at the last meeting. Prof. Charles E. Bessey, Dr. O. R. 
Cross and Miss Eliza Youmans were elected corresponding 
members. It was resolved to permanently deposit the Library 
of the Club in the Botanical Library of Columbia College, in 
exchange for which the members have now the privilege of 
obtaining readers’ tickets to this and the main College Library 
on application to the Librarian of the Club. 
Specimens of the Snowdrop, Galanthus nivalis, which had 
blossomed in a garden in Brooklyn, were brought by Miss Steele. 
Mrs. Britton read the paper announced for the evening, entitled 
“ Notes on the Autumn Flora of the Great Appalachian Valley 
and the Southern Alleghanies,” and illustrated it with numerous 
specimens. A photograph of Louis D. de Schweinitz, sent by 
Eugene A. Rau, of Bethlehem, Pa., through whom the de Schwein- 
itz library has recently been sold, was exhibited. 
The committee on Public Lectures announced that Prof. 
W. G. Farlow, of Cambridge, Mass., will address the Club and 
its friends on Friday evening, April 9th. The title will be 
announced by card. 
