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PROCEEDINGS OF THE CLUB 

 February 25, 1920 



A meeting of the Club was held at 3.30 p.m. at The New York 

 Botanical Garden. Dr. H. A. Gleason presided. There were 21 

 persons present. 



The minutes of the meetings held January 28 and February 10 

 were adopted. 



Mr. William T. Arnold and JMr. Charles E. Fairman were 

 elected to membership. The resignation of Dr. O. E. White was 

 accepted. The death on November 8, 1919, of Mr. E. C. Wurz- 

 low was noted. 



Dr. R. A. Harper, on behalf of the committee charg.ed with the 

 selection for nominatit)n of a candidate or candidates for the 

 offices of Secretary and Treasurer, reported, suggesting Dr. F. 

 W. Pennell for both these positions. The joint tenure of these 

 offices has been found of much convenience. Dr. Pennell was 

 elected Secretary-Treasurer. 



The Treasurer was authorized to renew insurance upon our 

 stock in the basement of the library of Columbia University. 



The resignation of Dr. Pennell as Cliairman of the Field Com- 

 mittee was accepted. 



The scientific program consisted of two titles : 



Dr. H. M. Denslow discussed " Our Native Orchids." After 

 an introduction telling of his own long acquaintance with the 

 orchids of our northeastern, and especially our local, flora, the 

 speaker entered upon his real theme. This considered first the 

 status of our knowledge of orchids ; emphasizing the limitation 

 of present knowledge and stating as reasons for this (a) the 

 shortness of ilowering-season of some species, (b) the minute 

 size of flowers and general inconspicuousness of some species, 

 (c) the unexpected habitats of some species, and (d) the spo- 

 radicity of occurrence of yet some species. Then he called our 

 attention to the imperfect representation in herbaria, and locally 

 in our Club collection at The New York Botanical Garden, of 

 our orchids, emphasizing the need of a collection sufficiently ample 

 to show us the distribution of each sort. The same want is evi- 



