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Recording Secretary : John W. Thomson, Jr. 

 Treasurer : W. Gordon Whaley 

 Editor : Harold W. Rickett 

 Bibliographer : Lazella Schwarten 

 Business Manager ; Michael Levine 

 Members of the Council : John M. Arthur 

 Lela \'. Barton 

 Arthur H. Graves 

 Edwin B. ^latzke 

 Delegate to the Council of the Xew York Academy of Sciences : 



W. J. Robbins 

 Representative on the Board of Managers of the Xew York Botanical 



Garden : Henry A. Gleason 

 Representatives on the Council of the American Association for the 

 Ad%-ancement of Science : Albert E. Hitchcock 

 John S. Karling 



]\Ir. Rutherford Piatt then conducted a guessing game with the 

 Kodachrome colored slides of plants for which he is so well known. 

 The botanists present did not prove to be too familiar with the com- 

 mon plants which he showed. First, second and booby prizes were 

 awarded. 



The meeting was adjourned at 9:20 P.M. 



Respectfully submitted, 



JoHx W. Thomson, Jr., 

 Recording Secretary 



Minutes of the Meeting of January 21, 1942 



The meeting was called to order at 3 :35 p.m., in the ^Member's 

 Room of the New York Botanical Garden by the President, Dr. C. 

 Stuart Gager. Thirty-six members and friends were present. In the 

 absence of a Recording Secretary, the Corresponding Secretary read 

 the minutes of the preceding meeting. These were adopted as read. 

 The following were elected unanimously to annual membership in 

 the Club : 



Dr. W. B. Baker, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia 

 Mr. Stanley D. Wikoff, 91 Easton Avenue, New Brunswick, N. J. 

 Mr. G. Thomas Robbins, University of Colorado, Boulder, Col. 

 Mr. Frank G. Lier, 510 West 110th Street, New York City. 



The transfer of ]Mr. W. Herbert Dole, 25 Overlook Avenue, West 

 Orange, N. J., from annual to associate membership was approved. 

 The following resignations were noted with regret : 



