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The meeting adjourned at 4.30 p.m. after which tea was served 

 by the New York Botanical Garden. 



Clyde Chandler 

 Recording Secretary 



Meeting of March 5, 1940 



The meeting of the Torrey Botanical Club held at the American 

 Museum of Natural History on March 5, was called to order by 

 the President at 8.15 p.m. 



Forty-eight persons were present. 



The minutes of the meeting of February 21 were adopted as 

 read. 



Seventeen persons were elected to Annual Membership : Dr 

 James Bonner, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, Calif. 

 Dr. Hettie M. Chute, 70 Townsend Street, New Brunswick, N. J. 

 Miss Ruth Curtis, 613 South Braddock Avenue, Pittsburgh, Penn. 

 Mr. Delzie Demaree, Arkansas A. & M. College, Monticello, Ark. 

 Dr. G. W. Goldsmith, Box 1611, University Station, Austin, Texas ; 

 Mr. Robert L. Hulbary, Dept. of Botany, Columbia University, 

 New York; Rev. George M. Link, Grafton, 111.; Dr. Blanche 

 McAvoy, 108 West Ash Street, Normal, 111.; Mr. Charles B. Reif, 

 319 West 50th Street, Minneapolis, Minn.; Dr. George Dewey 

 Ruehle, Subtropical Experiment Station, Homestead, Fla. ; Dr. 

 William Seifriz, Dept. of Botany, University of Pennsylvania, 

 Philadelphia, Penn.; Dr. Forrest Shreve, Box 471, Tucson, Ariz.; 

 Dr. G. Ledyard Stebbins, Jr., 314 Hilgard Hall, University of Cali- 

 fornia, Berkeley, Calif. ; Dr. H. E. Warmke, Dept. of Genetics, 

 Carnegie Institution, Cold Spring Harbor, N. Y. ; Mr. Henry F. 

 Westheimer, R. F. D. No. 1, Springdale, Conn.; Dr. Roy M. 

 Whelden, New Durham, N. H., and Mrs. Martha S. Wood [Mrs. 

 L. Hollingsworth Wood], "Braewold," Mount Kisco, N. Y. 



Three persons were elected to Associate Membership : IMiss 

 Helen M. Eraser, 51 South Maple Avenue, Ridgewood, N. J. ; Mrs. 

 Richard M. Lawton, 1215 Prospect Avenue, Plainfield, N. J., and 

 Mr. M. D. Mann. Jr.. 625 Locust Street, Roselle, N. J. 



The resignation of Mrs. Howard S. Kaltenborn, R. E. D. No. 2, 

 Ruston, Louisiana, was noted with regret. 



Dr. W. S. Thomas, who was appointed to represent the Torrey 

 Club at the New York-New Jersey Trail Conference, reported that 



