20 SEMI-CENTENNIAL OF TORREY BOTANICAL CLUB 
ings of the Club was transferred to T'orreya from the Bulletin, but 
otherwise its scope as “а monthly journal of botanical notes and 
news” has remained unchanged under successive editors. 
At the same meeting which authorized the establishment of 
Torreya, the Club voted to present its herbarium, subject to cer- 
tain conditions, to the New York Botanical Garden; and at the 
following meeting the privilege long enjoyed by Columbia Uni- 
versity of incorporating Torrey Club exchanges into its library 
was transferred to the library of the Garden. 
Judge Brown's long term in the presidency was followed by the 
election of Dr. Henry Hurd Rusby, who held the office for the 
seven years 1905 to 1911. In spite of this comparatively long 
tenure, however, the tendency has been, perhaps more from acci- 
dent than by design, toward rotation in office, and during the past 
twelve years there have been four presidents and five editors. I 
shall not dwell upon these later years, for many of my hearers have 
been familiar with their history and contributed in an important 
measure to it; moreover, it is so fully recorded in printed form that 
my omission of it need not embarrass the future historian. The 
expansion of the Club from a purely local association to a body of 
almost national scope can scarcely be emphasized, however, by 
anything more than the wide geographic distribution of our present 
active membership, and the fact that our main editorial office is 
now in New Haven and our editor a professor in Yale University. 
About the beginning of the year 1905, the Club began to hold 
its evening meetings at the Museum of Natural History instead 
of the College of Pharmacy; and some two years later, upon the 
dissolution of the Scientific Alliance, the Club joined with the 
other members of the Alliance in becoming affiliated with the New 
York Academy of Sciences. Organic union with the Academy is 
not close, but the Club has a representative in the Council of the 
Academy, and the Club's meetings are announced in the Acad- 
emy's weekly bulletin. 
Time fails me, on an occasion like this, to refer in detail to the 
vast amount of valuable scientific work accomplished by members 
of the Torrey Botanical Club, and presented in our meetings or 
published in the Bulletin, the Memoirs, and Torreya. Nor have I 
found an opportunity to mention, even by name, the many who 
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