Proceedings of the Club 



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Tuesday Evening, February 13, 1900 



President Brown in the chair. Eighteen persons present. 



Dr. Rusby reported on the part of the Committee on Excur- 

 sions an interesting field-day at Maplewood, N. J., with kind hos- 

 pitalities enjoyed by the courtesy of Miss Idalette Carpenter, of 

 Maplewood. 



President Brown announced the Committees for the year 1900 



as follows : 



Committee on Finance, J. I. Kane, C. F. Cox ; Committee on 

 Admissions, Cornelius Van Brunt, Jeannette B. Greene, M.D., 

 John K. Small, Ph.D.; Committee on Library and Herbarium, 

 Per Axel Rydberg, Ph.D., Marie L. Sanial, Helen M. Ingersoll, 



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Alice M. Isaacs ; Committee on the Local Flora, Professor 

 N. L. Britton, Ph.D.; Phanerogamia, Eugene P. Bicknell, 

 H. H. Rusby, M.D., Rev. Geo. D. Hulst ; Cryptogamia, 

 Professor L. M. Underwood, Marshall A. Howe, Ph.D., Mrs. 

 Elizabeth G. Britton ; Committee on Excursions, Dr. L. Schoe- 

 ney, Marie L. Sanial, Eugene Smith, George V. Nash, W. A. 

 Bastedo ; Committee on Program, Dr. H. H. Rusby, Dr. C. C. 

 Curtis, Mrs. Elizabeth G. Britton. 



The scientific program consisted of a paper by Dr. H. H. 

 Rusby entitled " The Tendency of entomophilous Flowers to 

 antero-posterior Irregularity." The paper was copiously illus- 

 trated by blackboard drawings, and its comparative review of floral 

 irregularity in the various orders was aided by the distribution of 

 printed lists with statistics. 



The object of the paper was to show the distribution among 

 and within the families of plants of cases of irregularity specially 

 favoring insect-pollination. In this view, several types of irregu- 

 larity were excluded from consideration as not having such origin. 

 One such is irregularity in an ovary, as reflected in the fruit of 

 Mango. Another is the necessary curving forward of such sessile 

 flowers as those of Piper, closely pressed against, or even buried 



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