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Proceedings of the Club. 



The regular meeting was held Tuesday evenuig, Feb. nth, 

 Dr. Newberry in the chah* and twenty-five persons present. 



Rev. Dr. Wendell Prime was elected a Corresponding Mem- 



ber. 



The Editor read by title a paper on '' Seedless Fruits/' by Dr. 

 E. Lewis Sturtevant, which w^ill form No. 4 of the Memoirs. 



The following paper was then read, as announced: "Notes 

 on the Growth of the Cell-wall/^ by Miss Emily L. Gregory, 



Mrs. Britton reported Fissidcns Ravencllii as among a col- 

 lection of mosses sent by Mr. Lighthipe from Florida. 



Dr. Newberry exhibited photographs of fossil plants from the 

 Cretaceous rocks of Kansas, remarking especially upon the 

 recent discovery of Cycadites. 



The second February meeting was held at Barnard College, 

 Wednesday evening, Feb. 26th, Mr. Hollick in the chair and 

 twenty-one persons present. 



' Dr. Britton called the attention of the Club to the death of 

 Dr. C. C. Parry, and remarked on his extensive and valuable 

 work in North American Botany. 



*^The Flora of the Straits of Magellan/' by Dr. Britton, the 

 paper announced for the evennig, then followed. Tt was illus- 

 trated by a collection of plants made in 1886, by Lieut. W. E. 

 Safiford, U. S. N. Among the specniiens were Rannuculus 

 abcrranSy Draba Saffordi and Vicia Saffordi, new species named 

 by Dr. Philippi. Especial attention was called to the large 

 number of boreal species inhabiting southern South America. 



Mr. Hollick reported Anemone Hepatica in full flower on 

 Staten Island, Feb. 16, — the earliest record he has had for twenty 



years. Dr. Tell 



Viola, prob- 



ably V. ciutillata, were gathered in the Richmond Hills woods, 

 Long Islandj January 15 th. 



