Proceedings of the Club 



Wednesday Evening, March 28, 1900 



Vice-President Allen in the chair; about 270 persons were 

 present. 



Two resignations were accepted, of Miss Oline M. Ewing and 

 of Mrs. D. P. Kingsford. One new member was elected, Mrs. 

 Isaac Harris, 125 St. Marks Place, Brooklyn, N. Y. 



The evening was devoted to a popular lecture on the ''Autumn 

 Wild Flowers" native to the vicinity of New York City, by Mr. 

 C. Van Brunt, with lantern-slides, and included not only wild 

 flowers, but also marsh views, autumnal foliage, and tracts of red- 

 dened samphire. The speaker took his audience to the Hacken- 

 sack marshes, showing cat-tail, pickerel -weed, Sagittaria, Core- 



opsis, Miloania, sneeze weed, the lobelias, etc. Then the marshes 

 about Jamaica Bay were visited, with beach-goldenrod, dodder, 

 Sabbatia, Gerardia, Lacinaria, Hibiscus, etc. The weeds surviv- 

 ing about a deserted house yielded some of the most interesting 

 pictures, showing magnified details of burdock, catnip, mother- 

 wort, matrimony-vine, knotweeds, etc. Other flowers shown in- 

 cluded several goldenrods, asters and gentians, with fruits of 

 milkweeds, holly and Srnilacina. The series closed with rich dis- 

 plays of color in the herbaceous borders at the Botanical Garden 

 at Bronx Park. 



Tuesday Evening, April 10, 1900 



President Brown in the chair ; twenty persons were present. 



Four resignations were reported and accepted, those of Mr. 

 Morris E. Leeds, Dr. Jerome B. Thomas, Jr., Mr. F. Wayland 

 Fellowes, Miss Harriet M. Denison. Two new members were 



Miss 



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Howe as its candidate for the Newberry award for this year. 



Dr. Britton called special attention to the Torrey Club excur- 

 sion next Saturday to the Botanical Garden and the opening of 



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