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JANUARY 15, 1897. 
SEVENTH REGULAR MEETING. 
The president, CHARLES W. Harcirv, in the chair. 
F orty-one persons present. 
The report of the council recommended the election of Miss 
Mary Stanley and Gaylord P. Clark to active membership, and 
John H. Rollo and William W. Newman to associate member- 
ship. 
The report was adopted and the candidates elected by formal 
ballot. 
Dr. W. M. Beauchamp read a paper entitled, 
WHAT A BOTANIST MAY FIND OF INTEREST IN 
CES. VeENILY 
More than a dozen violets with rare colorings, and a half 
dozen species of the mallow family, forty species of leguminous 
plants, forty umbelliferous plants, fifty of the rose family, 
twenty-five of the heath family, more than one hundred of the 
composite family, milk weeds five in number, and many other 
varieties were described in detail. He did not neglect the trees, 
finding a score of willows, five oaks, nine cone-bearing ever- 
greens and others. Orchids, ferns, smilax, pond weeds, grasses 
(seventy-five in number). were given along with valuable sug- 
gestions that should excite the botanist who heard them. 
FEBRUARY IQ, 1897. 
EFIGHTH REGULAR MEETING. 
The president, CHARLES W. Harcirt, in the chair. 
Thirty-eight persons present. 
The names of Joseph Glass and W. R. Maxon were favor- 
ably reported for associate membership and they were elected by 
formal ballot. 
