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MEETING OF THE BIOLOGICAL CLUB. 



Orton Hall, November 3, 1913. 



The meeting was called to order by the President, Mr. Stover, 

 The minutes of the previous meeting were read and corrected. 

 The following persons were elected to membership: Lawrence W. 

 Durrell, Gustav A. Meckstroth, Carl J. Drake, Frank H. Lathrop. 



In the absence of a report from the nominating committee it 

 was moved and seconded that the nominations for the officers for 

 the ensuing year be made from the floor. Those nominated were : 

 W. J. Kostir, for president, Clara G. Mark for vice-president and 

 Blanche McAvoy for secretary. 



The Secretary was instructed to cast a vote for these persons. 



Mr. Kostir took the chair and introduced the speaker, Mr. 

 Stover, who gave the presidential address on the Present Aspects 

 Phytopathology. 



The meeting adjourned at 9:10. 



Blanche W. McAvoy, Secretary. 



Orton Hall, December 8, 1913. 



The meeting was called to order promptly at seven-thirty by 

 Mr. Kostir. The meeting was well attended, there being a few 

 more than one hundred present. The minutes of the previous 

 meeting were read and approved. 



Benj. H. Repp, Dan G. Tear, and Mary Blanche Howe were 

 elected to membership. 



Prof, Griggs had the first paper of the evening. It was a 

 record of his trip to Alaska and was entitled "The eruption of 

 Katmi, an Alaskan Volcano, and its Effect on the Vegetation." 

 Katmi is on the peninsula and erupped on June 6, 1912. So far 

 as is known there were no warning eruptions. The noise was 

 heard 750 miles and the steam from the volcano was seen for 100 

 miles. At Kodiac which is 100 miles awa^^ the ashes fell to the 

 depth of one foot and the darkness lasted for sixty hours. There 

 was approximately 4.9 cubic miles of material thrown up. Great 

 quantities of pumice were floating on the water. Soon after the 

 eruption it rained and the lava became mud which washed down 

 off the mountains and hills and filled up the valleys and covered 

 the houses. To illustrate the effect of all this on the vegetation 

 he showed pictures of places, that he had taken similar to 

 the region around Katmi. The pictures showed great meadows 

 and forests and quantities of flowers. The pictures taken around 



