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The President announced the appointment of the following to 

 serve on the Seventy-fifth Anniversary Celebration Committee : Dr. 

 A. B. Stout, New York Botanical Garden ; Dr. H. C. Bold, Barnard 

 College, Corresponding Secretary ; Dr. A. H. Graves, Brooklyn 

 Botanical Garden ; Dr. P. W. Zimmerman, Boyce Thompson Insti- 

 tute; Dr. Ralph Cheney, Long Island University; Dr. S. F. Tre- 

 lease, Columbia University; Dr. B. O. Dodge, New York Botan- 

 ical Garden ; Dr. John A. Small, New Jersey College for Women, 

 Rutgers University ; Dr. J. M. Fogg, University Pennsylvania ; 

 Dr. L. O. Kunkel, Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research ; 

 Dr. J. J. Copeland, City College of New York; Dr. H. H. Clum. 

 Hunter College ; and Dr. E. W. Sinnott, Yale University. 



Dr. Small reported an interesting itinerary through New Eng- 

 land planned by the Field Committee for the summer meetings 

 with the American Botanical Society. 



The President welcomed the members of several out of town 

 institutions who were present for the meeting. 



The scientific part of the program consisted of a talk by Pro- 

 fessor Fredda D. Reed of Mt. Holyoke College on "Fossil Plants 

 from the American Coal Fields." The speaker's abstract follows : 



Carboniferous plant remains fall in to general categories: (1) Impres- 

 sions, casts and molds, which show the superficial characters of form and 

 size and make possible the reconstruction of the habit of the plant; and, 

 (2) Petrifactions or "coal balls," fossils with cellular structure preserved 

 revealing the anatomical and morphological features. Reconstructions of the 

 dominant genera of the five orders, Articulatales, Lepidodcndrales, FUicalcs, 

 Cycadofilicales, and Cordaitales, together with selected structural details of 

 vegetative and reproductive organs of each were illustrated. 



The meeting was adjourned at 9 :30 P.M. 

 Respectfully submitted, 



John W. Thomson, Jr. 

 Recording Secretary 



Minutes of the Meeting on April 16, 1941 



The meeting was called to order by the President Dr. J. S. 

 Karling, at 3 :30 P.M. at the New York Botanical Garden. Twenty- 

 seven members and friends were present. 



The minutes of the previous meeting were adopted as read. 



It was voted that the following be admitted by unanimous ballot 

 to membership in the Club : as associate members, Mrs. Virginia G. 



