\'CL. 43 T O R R E Y A Tcly 1943 ■ 



ACTIVITIES OF THE CLUB 

 Jaxuary to May 1943 



Jaxuary 5. AxxuAL Meetixg. 



The annual dinner meeting of tlie Torrey Botanical Club was held at the Men's 

 Faculty Club, Columbia University, at 6 :45 p.m. The President. Dr. C. Stuart Gager, 

 presided, with 82 members and friends present. After the dinner the minutes of the 

 preceding meeting were approved. The reports of the Treasurer, of the Chairman 

 of the Field Committee, and of the Editor of Torseya -were distributed in mimeo- 

 graphed form, and the combined report of the Editor and the Bibliographer was read 

 by Dr. Matzke. These reports were accepted on a motion bj' Dr. Karling. 

 Dr. Gager addressed a few remarks to the Club and then announced that the following 

 list of officers had been elected for the year 1943 : 



President: William J. Robbins 



1st Vice-President: Fred J. Seaver 



2nd \"ice-President : Lela ^'. Barton 



Corresponding Secretary: Edwin B. Matzke 



Recording Secretary : Honor M. HoUinghurst 



Treasurer : V. Gordon Vhaley 



Editor: Harold W. Rickett 



Bibliographer : Lazella Schwarten 



Business ^lanager : Michael Levine 



Members of the Council : Charles A. Berger, Clyde Chandler, Albert E. Hitchcock, 



Roger P. ^^'odehouse 

 Delegate to the Council of the X. Y. Academy of Sciences ; Bernard O. Dodge 

 Representative on the Board of Alanagers of the X. Y. Botanical Garden: Henry 



A. Gleason 

 Representatives on the Council of the American Association for the Advancement 



of Science : John H. Barnhart, Albert F. Blakeslee 



Dr. Matzke then conducted a "Botanical Information Please" quiz with a board of 

 experts comprised of Drs. Gager, Graves, Karling, Robbins, and Zimmerman, aug- 

 mented at times by the guests at large. The meeting adjourned at 9 :15 p.m. 



HOXOR M. HOLLIXGHURST, ReCORDIXG SECRETARY. 



Taxu-\ry 20. Meetixg at The X'ew York Botanical Garden. 



The meeting was called to' order at 3 .30 p.m. by the President. Dr. \Mlliam J. 

 Robbins. Attendance 25. The minutes of the preceding meeting were approved. The 

 following new members were elected : 15 to Annual membership, 3 to Associate mem- 

 bership ; 2 transfers to Amiual membership and 4 transfers to Associate membership 

 were approved. The resignations of 21 Annual and of 4 Associate members were 

 accepted with regret. 



A letter was read concerning the preservation of High Tor. Dr. Robbins suggested 

 that a letter be sent to the sponsors of this movement, expressing the interest of the 

 Torrey Botanical Club, and stating that the enterprise had been announced and dis- 

 cussed at our meeting, and suggesting that the Club send a notice concerning this with 

 the field schedule to be issued in March, provided this date is not too late. 



The scientific program consisted of two talks, the first by Dr. H. ^V. Rickett on 

 "The Genus Cortnis in Xorth America." 



The genus Cornus may readily be divided into 7 sections. 5 of which have often 

 been treated as genera. The difiference between these are chiefly in the inflorescences. 



