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"Resolved: That the editors be authorized and requested to proceed at 

 once with the pubHcation of such a periodical and to designate an editor for 

 it from their number. 



"Resolved: That the periodical bear the name 'Torreya' in honor of Dr. 

 John Torrey, the founder of the Club." 



At the meeting of the Club on January 30, Dr. Marshall Avery 

 Howe was appointed editor "of the Club's new journal Torreya." 

 But the editorial board, of which Dr. Howe was a member, had 

 already brought out the first number. During this first year short 

 articles or notes were published by thirty-three different members, 

 several contributing five or six times each. Among these con- 

 tributors five are still members of the Club — Professor Henry C. 

 Beardslee, Dr. Edward W. Berry, Mr. Stewart H. Burnham, Dr. 

 D. T. MacDougal and Dr. Roland M. Harper. The last named 

 had an article in the Bulletin in 1900 and has had one or more 

 articles in every volume of Torreya. During the first year Pro- 

 ceedings of the Club continued to be published in the Bulletin, but 

 the next year were published in Torreya, as they have been ever 

 since. Very brief reports of Field Days were published in the 

 early numbers. In the October, 1901, number it is stated that 

 "During the summer months weekly excursions have been made 

 by members of the Torrey Botanical Club to interesting localities." 



Torreya was published monthly from 1901 through 1919, the 

 number of pages exceeding even in the first year the twelve per 

 issue authorized by the Club. In the News Notes of the number 

 for December, 1919, we read, "Beginning with Volume 20, Tor- 

 reya will be issued bi-monthly. This has been decided because 

 of the greatly increased cost of production. As heretofore its pages 

 will be open to all who have something to say of interest to botany, 

 but if more material is offered for publication than we have room 

 for, preference will be given to members of the Club, and to notes 

 on local botany." 



Dr. Howe was editor for seven years (the last year assisted by 

 Dr. Philip Dowell) when he became editor of the Bulletin. Miss 

 Jean (now Doctor) Broadhurst was editor for 1908, 1909 and 1910. 

 For the next ten years Mr. Norman Taylor was editor. The pres- 

 ent editor began his work for the Club in 1921 and has now com- 

 pleted twenty years of service. Next year Dr. William J. Bonisteel 



