Proceedings of the Club 



Tuesday Evening, October io, 1899 



Vice-President Rusby in the chair ; 33 persons present. 



The following new members were elected : Miss Mary B, Pit- 

 man, 304 E. 2ist St.; Mrs. Francis B. Arnold, loi W. 78th St.; 

 Mrs.' E. E. Olcott, 38 W. 39th St.; Miss Lucy Mclntyre, 303 W. 

 7. til St • Dr. A. Henri Hart, 73 Lexington Ave.; Mr. S. Whitney 



M2 Nassau St.: nominated by Dr. H. H. Rusby 



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142 Second Ave.; Miss Rosalie Rosenburg, 128 E. 70th St.: 

 nominated by the Secretary. Miss Annie D'Zan, 63 Stuyvesant 



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secretary 



section G of the A. A. A. S. a committee was appointed to pre- 

 pare a memorial program in honor of Dr. Torrey, to be given at 

 the June meeting of the Association in New York ; this committee 

 to consist of the President, the Vice-President, the Secretary and 

 two other members whom they shall appoint. 



Dr. Britton called attention to the expected opening of the 

 Museum at the Botanical Garden in December, and suggested that 

 it might be appropriate that the first scientific meeting to be held 

 there be that of the Torrey Club, this Club having made the first 

 movement toward starting the Botanical Garden. 



The remainder of the evening was devoted to reports from ex- 

 cursions and from summer observations by members. 



Dr. Rusby, as guide to nine excursions in the spring, reported 

 an average attendance of 3 i . 



At Floral Park, L. L, May 



the fine 



botanical library of Mr. C. L. Allen, and the method of cultivating 



seedling tulips shown by Mr. ] 

 June 3d the club was very 



Mr. and Mrs. Wm. O. Allison 

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making a report embodying lists of species observed during the 



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