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Proceedings of the Club. 
Turspay Eveninc, NOVEMBER 13TH, 1894. 
The President in the chair and 16 persons present. - ee 
The minutes of the meeting of October 31st were read and 
approved. : ioe 
Mr. Henry Ogden, Treasurer, reported that he had received 
the legacy of $500 less $25, collateral inheritance tax, bequeathed 
to the Club by the late Isaac Buchanan, and recommended that it 
at her house. 
be permanently invested. The matter was referred to the 
Finance Committee with the request that they report on methods ae 
of investment at the next meeting. 
The committee appointed to draft resolutions relative to the 
death of Mrs. Maria L. Daly submitted the following, which were 
approved and ordered printed in the BULLETIN. : 
Resolved, That by the death of Mrs. Maria Lydig Daly the 
Torrey Club has lost one of its most valuable members and sym- — 
pathetic workers. Though Mrs. Daly, since her connection with 
the Club, was not often able to attend the meetings, yet she took 
a keen interest in its proceedings, made herself acquainted with — 
many of its members and associated herself prominently with ee te 
of its dearest objects, the founding of the Botanic Garden, whic aX 
the Club has long been working to establish. When the origina 
efforts for that object were languishing it was largely through the 
_ stimulus of Mrs. Daly’s zeal and social influence, supported by ' oh 
‘hearty codperation of her husband, Ex-Chief Justice Daly, that the 
revival of a more extended interest in the énterprise was accom” 
plished; and that, through the opportunities for consultation — 
friendly intercourse at her home, a direction was given te® 
_ movement by which the present organization and promise of su 
cess have been reached. She always took great interest im P'— 
meetings of all the Garden Committees, and she was he St 
Chairman of the Ladies’ Committee, whose first meeting was be 
_ She was born on that part of Bronx Park known as the eee 
Estate. She was deeply interested in the plans of the com 5 i 
who selected that site for the Botanic Garden, and was large'y * 
fluential in furthering their aims. Mrs. Daly was passione 
fond of flowers. In her city home she had them always | 
her, while in her country place on Long Island she cult 
many of the old favorities, and mourned that fashions fl 
