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Proceedings of the Club. 
Tugspay EveninG, FEBRUARY 12TH, 1895. 
Vice President Allen in the chair and 29 persons present. 
Lieut. Wm. Lassiter, 1st Artillery, U. S. Army, was elected 
an active member. — 
A communication from the Secretary of the Council of the 
Scientific Alliance of New York, transmitting a draft of a pro- 
posed act for incorporating the Council, was read. The matter 
was discussed by the chairman, Mr. Van Brunt, and the Secretary. 
On motion and unanimously carried, it was 
Resolved, That this Society approves of the measure outlined 
in the proposed act of incorporation just presented by the Council 
of the Scientific Alliance of New Y ork, and, so far as this Society 
is concerned, hereby authorizes the said Council to procure the 
Passage of the said act by the Legislature and thereafter to carry 
the same into effect. : 
A communication from Professor Halsted, who was announced 
to speak on «“ Abnormalities in Plants due to Fungus Diseases,” 
was read, stating his inability to be present. 
The paper of Mr. Van Sickle, deferred from the last meeting 
was then presented, entitled. “:Notes. from my Herbarium.” The 
speaker exhibited and remarked upon a very large number of the 
rarer plants of northern New Jersey, representing numerous un- 
recorded localities and several species hitherto unknown to occur 
within the State. The communication was a very valuable addi- 
tion to our knowledge of the distribution of the local flora and 
will be published in a subsequent issue of the BULLETIN. 
Professor Britton read the announced paper of the evening, 
“The Family Ranunculaceae,” outlining his proposed treatment 
of the group in the “ Systematic Botany of North America.” 
WEpNEsDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 27TH, 1895. 
Vice President Allen in the chair and about 165 persons 
present. 
Miss Beatrix Jones was elected an active member. 
The announced paper of the evening was then read by Le 
Cornelius Van Brunt, entitled « Wild Flowers in and about New 
