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plants from the rich collections at Kew would be most gratefully- 

 appreciated not alone by the managers and members of the New 

 York Botanical Garden, but by all American botanists. 



Dr. Britton presented a communication on a tree new to the 

 American continent, a white birch from the Alaskan region, col- 



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lected by Mr. R. S. Williams and Mr. Tarleton, and represented 

 in the U. S. National Herbarium also by two specimens collected 

 by Miss E. Taylor. The tree was described by Regel as Be tula 

 alba, subsp. verrucosa, var. resinifera, but is evidently entitled to 

 specific rank. 



Adj 



Marshall A. Howe, 



Secretary pro tern. 



Wednesday, April 24, 1901 



The meeting was held at the College of Pharmacy with Pro- 

 fessor Underwood in the chair. Ten persons were present and 

 the following new members were elected : Miss May Palmer, 

 Training Dep't, Normal College, N. Y. City ; Miss Nellie Y. 

 Pietsch, 221 East 62d Street, N. Y. City; Mr. George W. Short, 

 1 59 West 1 25th Street, N. Y. City ; Miss Ada Watterson, Barnard 

 College, 119th St and Broadway, N. Y. City. 



The announced scientific program consisted of a paper by Pro- 

 fessor Francis E. Lloyd, entitled, "The Genus Lycopodium : A 

 Criticism," which in the absence of the author was read by the 

 secretary pro tern. This was a review and criticism of the treat- 

 ment of the genus Lycopodium by Pritzel in the recently published 

 partofEngler and Prantl's "Die naturlichen Pflanzenfamilien " 

 dealing with the Lycopodiaceae. The paper will be published in 

 full in an early number of Torreya. 



Professor Underwood remarked on segregations in the Selagi- 

 nclla rupestris group, stating that Dr. Hieronymus of Berlin had 

 recently recognized twenty-seven species in this group, ten of 

 them American, outside of those recently proposed in this 

 country. 



Marshall A. Howe, 



* Secretary pro tern. 



