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Proceedings of the Club, 
Professor W. G. Farlow, of Cambridge, Mass., delivered the 
first of a series of public lectures before the Club on the evening 
of April 9th. His subject was ‘“ Fungous Diseases of Plants.” 
It was effectively illustrated by diagrams and lantern slides. At 
the close of the address, on motion of Vice-President Hogg, a 
vote of thanks was tendered Prof. Farlow. 
The regular monthly meeting was held at Columbia College, 
Tuesday evening, April 13th. The President was in the chair, 
seventeen persons were present. The Finance Committee reported 
the purchase of the remaining numbers of Volumes I to VI of 
the BULLETIN from the Misses Leggett. Dr. George D. Hays 
and S. Lowell Elliott were elected active members, and Prof. 
George Lincoln Goodale, W. G. Farlow and F. Lamson Scribner, 
corresponding members. Several members of the Club, who 
have been engaged in the study of Microscopic and Cryptogamic 
Botany, having organized a section to be known as the HISTO- 
LOGIC AND CRYPTOGAMIC SECTION OF THE TORREY BOTAN- 
ICAL CLUB, were formally accorded that title and the privilege 
of organizing and meeting in such manner as they may decide. 
The Field Committee of last year, Messrs. W. H. Rudkin, 
J. F. Poggenburg and Arthur Hollick, was reappointed. Mr. 
Southwick reported seventeen cultivated plants in bloom in Cen- 
tral Park. Mr. Hollick showed Lpigea repens, collected on 
April 11th on Staten Island. Dr. Newberry read a description 
of certain fossil forms of Bauhinza, illustrating it with drawings of 
the recent species. He also read from the Amherst Record a 
notice of the death of Prof. Edward Tuckerman, and gave some 
personal reminiscences. Mr. E. P. Bicknell reported finding Pella 
atropurpurea on limestone rocks at Riverdale-on-Hudson. Dr. 
Britton called attention to a specimen of Eryngium planum, Juss., 
found i in Central Park by L. P. Gratacap. Mrs Britton showed 
cones of Abies balsamea and Picea nigra, from Mt. Mansfield, 
Vt., Abies Fraseri and Picea alba from the Southern ‘Alleghanies, 
and explained their differences. 
The paper announced for the evening, entitled ‘‘ Additions to 
the Flora of Richmond County,” by Arthur Hollick and N. L. 
Britton, was read by Mr. Hollick and illustrated with specimens. 
