Proceedings of the Club 



Annual Meeting, January 8, 1901 



Professor Rusby in the chair ; seventeen persons present. 

 Annual reports were presented, as follows : 



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The Secretary, Professor E. S. Burgess, reported fifteen meet- 

 ings held during the year, with an average attendance of thirty- 

 eight ; nineteen active members were elected. The active mem- 

 bership is now 238, the total membership 383 ; twenty papers 

 have been presented besides twenty-six brief notes of collections 

 or of botanical progress. 



The Editor, Professor L. M. Underwood, reported a continued 

 increase in the number of pages and. of plates in the Club's publi- 

 cations, including in Volume 27 of the Bulletin, 666 pages and 33 

 plates, and including Volume 9 of the Memoirs with 292 pages 

 and 9 plates. 



Reports were also received from the Corresponding Secretary, 

 Curator and Librarian. 



Mr. M 



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Dr. P. A. Rydberg, as Chairman of the Library and Herba- 

 rium Committee, reported on the present unsatisfactory condition 

 of the Club's Herbarium, as to care, accessibility and determina- 

 tion. The suggestion was made, therefore, that the Club donate 

 its herbarium to the New York Botanical Garden under such con- 

 ditions as these : 



{a) That the Torrey Botanical Club herbarium should consti- 

 tute the nucleus of the separate local collections of the Garden, to 

 be known as the Torrey Botanical Club Local Herbarium or by 

 some similar name agreed upon. 



(&) That the Garden take proper care of the same, supplement 

 it from its own collections and from future gifts from members of 

 the Club and other persons, so that it may contain representatives 

 of all of the species growing within the 100-mile limit. 



{c) That the members of the Garden staff keep the specimens 



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