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Election of officers for 1914 resulted as follows: President, 

 Robert Aimer Harper; Vice-Presidents, John Hendley Barnhart, 

 Herbert Maule Richards; Secretary and Treasurer, Bernard 

 Ogilvie Dodge; Editor, Alexander William Evans; Associate 

 Editors, Jean Broadhurst, Ernest Dunbar Clark, J. Arthur Harris, 

 Marshall Avery Howe, Herbert Maule Richards, Arlow Burdette 

 Stout, and Norman Taylor. 



Dr. William Mansfield was elected delegate to the council of 

 the New York Academy of Sciences. 



Meeting adjourned. 



Michael Levine, 

 Secretary pro tem. 



January 28, 1914 



The meeting of January 28 was held in the lecture room of the 

 New York Botanical Garden at 3:30 P.M. Vice-president Barn- 

 hart presided. Twenty-five persons were present. The minutes 

 of January 13 were read and approved. 



Miss Laura Bragg, Charleston, South Carolina, and Mr. 

 Frederick V. Rand, Columbia University, New York City were 

 nominated for membership. The secretary then read an applica- 

 tion presented by Mr. Norman Taylor for a grant of two hundred 

 dollars from the Esther Herman fund of the New York Academy 

 of Sciences, to aid him in completing a survey of the Long Island 

 flora. This application was unanimously approved. 



Miss Laura Bragg and Frederick V. Rand were then elected 

 to membership. 



The announced scientific program consisted of an illustrated 

 lecture "The Coniferous Forests of Eastern North America," 

 by Dr. Roland M. Harper. The following abstract was furnished 

 by the speaker: 



In eastern North America about 30 species of conifers make up 

 at least three quarters of the existing forests. Most of the houses 

 in the United States and Canada are built of their wood, most 

 of our paper comes from the same source, and in some states at 

 least, most of the fuel. Most of the conifers grow in pure 

 stands of greater or less extent, so that there are about as many 

 types of coniferous forest as there are species of conifers. 



