Proceedings of the Club 



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It was agreed that an oppor- 



NOVEMBER 30, 1898. 



Eighteen persons present. President Brown in the chair. 



The following nominations for membership were made : By 

 Dn N. L. Britton, Dr. Joseph J. Sleeper, T04 West 83d Street; 

 By Dr. Underwood, Mr. Tracy E. Hazen. Columbia University ; 

 Miss Mary A. Nichols, 256 West 84th Street. 



The club listened to the following reports : 



In behalf of the committee on entertainment, Dr. Underwood 

 reported in favor of extending a reception to the Society of Plant 

 Morphology on the evening of December 27. 



Dr. Britton reported a communication from Mr. C. L. Pollard 

 announcing the recent foundation of the Washington Botanical 

 Club, and moved that as a club we tender it our greeting through 

 our Secretary. This was adopted and the Secretary accordingly 

 communicated this greeting to the Washington Botanical Club. 



Discussion was called up by Dr. Britton relative to the pro- 

 gram from the Field Committee, 

 tunity for field meetings be provided on Saturdays after the first 

 of January, for the purpose of studies of cryptogams and of winter 

 stages of higher plants. 



The scientific program followed. 



The first paper was by Dr. Marshall A. Howe, '' Remarks on 

 some undescribed Californian Hepaticae,'* and consisted of the de- 

 scription of three new species, soon, to be published. Beautiful 

 plates illustrating these spe^cies were exhibited, the work of Dr. 

 Howe, which with others will form a forthcoming volume of the 



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Memoirs of the Torrey Club. 



The second paper was by Professor Francis E. Lloyd, on *'The 



Nucleus in certain Myxomycetes and Schizophyceae." Mr. Lloyd 

 remarked that the work of Strasburger (1884) and later of Lister, 

 gives evidence that the nucleus of the Myxomycetes is a definite 

 organ possessed of a nuclear membrane, and containing chromatin. 

 During cell-division, the chromatin is segregated into rounded 

 masses lying in the nuclear plate ; a spindle Is formed. After 

 the formation of a fine nuclear membrane about the daughter nu- 

 clei, the spindle fibers gradually disappear. The small number of 

 these parallel fibers and absence of a cell-plate led Strasburger to 



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