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Proceedings of the Club. 
TurspAy EvEnING, JANUARY 9TH, 1894. 
ANNUAL MEETING. 
The President in the chair and eighteen persons present. ® 
Annual reports were submitted by both sections of the Com- 
mittee on Local Flora, and by the Herbarium Committee. 
For the former, Section on Phanerogams, Dr. Britton reported 
that there was a large amount of material in hand available as a 
foundation for writing a local flora, and enumerated the principal 
sources and repositories of such information. Several members 
expressed approval of the report. The Secretary suggested the 
advisability of making this flora, when written, descriptive in the 
fullest sense of the term. There seemed to him no good reason 
for confining descriptions to leaves, flowers and fruits, omitting 
such parts—tess conspicuous, but not less important—as roots, 
Structure of bark, wood, leaves, etc. It would be impossible to 
begin such work with a flora covering an extensive region, but it 
might begin with local floras. Dr. Britton replied that several 
works which had been very successful had been written on a plan 
tending in this direction. The President remarked upon the de- 
Sirability of work of this kind. 
For the section on Cryptogams Mrs. Britton reported a large 
amount of excellent work done by members of the committee as 
individuals, Dr. Jelliffe’s work upon the plants in the Brooklyn 
water supply being specially noted. The great desirability of a 
check-list of North American mosses, based on the revised code 
of nomenclature, was pointed out. 
Miss Rogers reported that the Curators were unable to pro-_ 
Perly care for the Club’s collections, and did not feel like greatly 
multiplying them, because of lack of room and conveniences. For 
the same reason the herbarium bequeathed by the late Miss Mc- 
Cabe had not been unpacked, arranged, or listed. The prepara~ 
tion of a list of desiderata was awaiting the appearance of the oe 
mew check-list, which should serve as a basis. ae 
