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mercerized or native state is, however, the consideration of paramount im- 

 portance and its recognition will enable us to attack, with renewed hope, the 

 solution of the many difficult problems concerned with the synthesis of 

 carbohydrates in the living cell." 



Clyde Chandler 

 Recording Secretary 



Meeting of February 6, 1940 



The meeting of the Torrey Botanical Club held at the American 

 Museum of Natural History February 6, was called to order by 

 the President at 8.15 p.m. 



Seventy-six persons were present. 



The minutes of the meeting of January 17 were adopted as read. 



It was moved by Dr. E. W. Sinnott and approved by the Club 

 that the secretary cast an unanimous ballot for the election of the 

 following to membership in the Torrey Club. 



Annual: Mr. Robert E. Duncan, 41 Coburn Hall, University 

 of Maine, Orono, Me. ; Mr. Edwin De T. Bechtel, 2 Wall Street, 

 New York; Mrs. Donald Durant, 419 East 57th Street, New York ; 

 Mr. O. G. Fitzgerald, Room 844, 641 Washington Street, New 

 York; Mrs. Richard Fondiller, 119 West 71st Street, New York; 

 Mr. George Thomas Johnson, Dept. of Botany, Washington Uni- 

 versity, St. Louis, Mo. ; and Mr. Rogers McVaugh, 2044 Pierce 

 Mill Road, N. W., Washington, D. C. 



Transfer from associate to annual : Prof. J. E. Weaver, Univer- 

 sity of Nebraska, Station A., Lincoln, Neb., and Mrs. Lazella 

 Schwarten. New York Botanical Garden, Bronx Park, New York. 



Associate: Mrs. Regina Jais, 1016 Fifth Avenue, New York; 

 Mr. D. Yardeni, 14 Mount Hope Place, Bronx, New York; Mrs. 

 Vance R. Hood (Elizabeth Hood), 456 Rockaway Avenue, Boon- 

 ton, N. J., and Mr. Robert L. Fowler, Department of Botany, Uni- 

 versity of Nebraska, Lincoln, Neb. 



Professor Harold St. John presented an interesting and well 

 illustrated lecture on "The Jungles of Fiji." 



Clyde Chandler 

 Recording Secretary 



Meeting of February 21, 1940 



The meeting of the Torrey Botanical Club held at the New York 

 Botanical Garden on Wednesday, February 21, was called to order 

 by the President at 3.30 p.m. 



