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Associate: Miss Louise M. Edelson, 1488 East 17th St., Brook- 

 lyn, New York. 



The following resignations from annual membership were noted 

 with regret : 



Mrs. Spencer Scott Marsh, Midwood Terrace, Madison, N. J. ; 

 Dr. Takewo Hemmi, College of Agriculture, Phytopathological 

 Institute, Kyoto Imperial University, Kyoto, Japan ; and Prof. 

 Fanchon Hart, College of Pharmacy, Columbia University, New 

 York. 



It was suggested by Dr. Karling that the Treasurer obtain 

 resolutions from the Savings Banks so that they may be presented 

 at the Council meeting of January 9 so that a special meeting of the 

 Council need not be called for a hearing of said resolutions. 



The scientific lecture on "The Response of the Chicle Tree to 

 Bleeding in British Honduras" was presented by Dr. J. S. Karling. 

 The speaker's abstract follows : 



"Achras sapota when tapped by the ibiden method employed on Hevea 

 brasiliensis shows no response in the form of greater latex yield. The first 

 incision drains all of the latex for a distance of approximately 16 inches above 

 and below. Trees tapped daily by the ibidem method over a period of twelve 

 weeks yielded no latex after the first day." 



Clyde Chandler 

 Recording Secretary 



NEWS NOTES 



At the Columbus meeting of the American Association for the 

 Advancement of Science Dr. Albert F. Blakeslee, director of the 

 department of genetics of the Carnegie Institution of Washington 

 at Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island, was elected president for 

 1940. As Dr. Blakeslee has long been an active member of our club 

 and served as president in 1933, we feel that we share in the honor 

 shown him. 



At the same meeting Dr. M. L. Fernald, of Harvard, was 

 elected vice-president and chairman of the Botanical Section and 

 Dr. W. J. Robbins, of the New York Botanical Garden, a member 

 of the Sectional Committee for Botanical Sciences. Dr. E. N. 

 Transeau, of Ohio State Universitv was elected president of the 



