BARNHART: HISTORICAL SKETCH 19 
For the first thirty years of its existence, the headquarters of 
the Club had always remained at Columbia University. At first 
the meetings were held at the herbarium and afterward, when at 
last that was outgrown, the Club met for years in Hamilton Hall. 
In the summer of 1897, Columbia removed from the Madison 
Avenue and Forty-ninth Street location to the new site on Morn- 
ingside Heights, and the Torrey Botanical Club at that time trans- 
ferred its herbarium and changed its meeting-place to the College 
of Pharmacy, at 115 West 68th Street. 
At the beginning of the year 1900 the Club assumed the pub- 
lication of the Card Index of American botanical literature. This 
had been issued for the preceding six years by the Cambridge 
Botanical Supply Company, but had merely been reprinted by 
them from the pages of the Bulletin, and it seemed only reasonable 
that the Club under whose supervision the catalogue was prepared 
and first printed should also issue it in card form. The Card Index 
thus became the third series of Club publications. 
Until 1900 it had been customary for the Club to hold all its 
meetings in the evening. The first meeting of May, in that year, 
however, was held in the afternoon at the New York Botanical 
Garden; the Club joined with Section G (Botany) of the American 
Association for the Advancement of Science in its celebration of 
“Torrey Day” at the Garden, June 27,* and after the summer 
vacation began the custom, continued until this day, of holding 
one of the two meetings each month at the Garden, and in the 
afternoon instead of evening. 
The commencement of the new century was marked by several 
important changes. The Bulletin had grown until its annual 
volume comprised nearly 700 pages and many plates, and the 
pressure for publication of technical papers tended to exclude 
brief communications and those of a popular character. A new 
monthly journal was therefore established by a vote of January 8, 
1901, under the editorship of Dr. Marshall Avery Howe, and the 
first number of Torreya made its appearance before the end of the 
same month. The following year the publication of the proceed- 
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