PROCEEDINGS 
OF THE 
SEMI-CENTENNIAL ANNIVERSARY 
OF THE 
TORREY BOTANICAL CLUB 
OCTOBER 18, 19 AND 20, 1917 
MEETING OF THURSDAY, OCTOBER 18 
The meeting of October 18 was held in the lecture-room of the 
Department of Botany of Columbia University in Schermerhorn 
Hall, beginning at:2:10 P. M., with Professor Herbert M. Rich- 
ards, President of the Club, in the chair. Fifty-five persons, 
mostly members of the Club, were present. 
President Richards, in his opening remarks, referred to the im- 
portance of the occasion and expressed his appreciation of the 
honor of presiding at such an anniversary gathering. 
Dr. R. A. Harper, Torrey Professor of Botany in Columbia 
University, recalled the intimate associations of the Torrey Bo- 
tanical Club and the Department of Botany of Columbia Uni- 
versity, and on behalf of the University extended to the Club 
felicitations on its Fiftieth Anniversary and a most cordial wel- 
come to the University. 
The following historical, reminiscent, and scientific papers,* 
most of which are published in full in this Anniversary Memoir, 
were then presented: 
"History of the Torrey Botanical Club," by Dr. John Hendley 
Barnhart. 
* Invitations to present papers were, in the intent of the committee, restricted 
to actual members of the Club. In the prog lered tl were few deviations 
from this limitation. 1 
