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"Das Jahr 1821 : Botanik ist die photoskotochromoPthermokry- 

 ohydrogeoaerooryktozoophytoanthropobiomorphostoechiogeni- 

 metrlskopische Phytologie." (From Flora 5: 224. 14 Ap 1822,) 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE CLUB 

 April 14, 1914 

 The meeting of April 14, 1914, was held at the American 

 Museum of Natural History at 8:15 P.M. President Harper 

 presided. Seventy-nine persons were present. 



The announced scientific program consisted of an illustrated 

 lecture on "Edible Fungi," by Dr. W. A. Murrill. This lecture 

 will be published in full in the Journal of the New York Botanical 

 Garden. 



Adjournment followed. 



Michael Levine, Sec. protein 



April 29, 1914 



The meeting of April 29, 1914, was held in the Laboratory 

 of the New York Botanical Garden at 3:30 P.M. President 

 Harper presided. Eighteen persons were present. 



The minutes of the meeting of April 14 were read and approved. 



The committee appointed to draw up resolutions on the 

 death of Dr. C. B, Robinson presented the following resolutions: 



Whereas, The members of the Torrey Botanical Club have 

 learned with the deepest sorrow of the death of their fellow- 

 member. Dr. Charles Budd Robinson, at the hands of certain 

 barbarous residents of Amboina Island in the Dutch East 

 Indies, be it therefore 



Resolved, That the Torrey Botanical Club desires hereby to 

 place on record its appreciation of the accurate, scholarly char- 

 acter of the scientific work accomplished by Doctor Robinson, 

 its admiration of his boundless industry and of his frank and 

 loyal personality, and its profound regret that a career of such 

 substantial achievement and abundant promise should have been 

 brought to so untimely an end, and 



Resolved, That these resolutions be entered upon the minutes 

 of the Club and that a copy be transmitted to his family. 



