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Proceedings of the Club. 
MEETING OF JAN. 27TH, 1892. 
Vice-President Dr. T. F. Allen in the chair and forty-three 
persons present. 
The Committee appointed to prepare resolutions relative to 
the death of Dr. F. W. Anderson, reported as follows: 
The death in December last, of Dr. F. W. Anderson, a mem- 
ber of this Club, and a botanist of no mean repute, makes it proper 
that we should take notice of his labors and the loss sustained by 
our science in his departure. His early life was spent in Montana, 
where he engaged zealously in making botanical collections, and 
where he gave special attention to the study of Fungi, Algz and 
Mosses in company with Dr. F. D. Kelsey and Mr. R. S. Wil- 
liams. In these branches of botany he acquired a large knowl- 
edge and made extensive collections. He afterwards held a posi- 
tion in the United States Department of Agriculture at Wash- 
ington, and contributed several valuable articles to botanical 
magazines upon the subjects to which he had devoted particular 
attention. Fora year he assisted Mr. J. B. Ellis on his plates of 
Eastern American Pyrenomycetes, and acquired much skill in 
the drawing of these difficult objects. Subsequently he volun-— 
teered to prepare the drawings to illustrate Mrs. N. L. Britton’s 
Projected Handbook of the Mosses of the Eastern United States, 
and was engaged upon them at the time of his death. To this 
work he devoted all his powers, and his work was so skillful that 
his place can hardly be filled. At the time of his death he was 
an Assistant Editior of the American Agriculturist, and was 
highly esteemed by the proprietors and managers of that journal. 
His botanical collections have been presented by his father, Rev. 
Jos. Anderson, and his associate, Rev. F. D. Kelsey, to the Her- 
barium of Columbia College. In view of his death we recommend 
the passage of the following resolutions: 
Resolved (1), That we put on record our high sense of the 
value of Dr. Anderson’s contributions to botanical science. 
(2), That we especially regret the loss which we have sus- 
tained in a department of botany not easily filled, a nice discrimi- 
Nation in the interpretation and delineation of cryptogamic plants. 
