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PROCEEDINGS OF THE CLUB 



Thursday, April 27, 1904 



This meeting was held in the museum building of the New 

 York Botanical Garden ; Dr. H. H. Rusby presided and twenty- 

 persons were present. 



Mr. O. P. Medsger, 167 Laurel Avenue, Arlington, N. J., was 

 elected a member of the Club. 



A report of the committee on increasing the membership of 

 the Club was asked for, and Dr. Rusby, chairman of the com- 

 mittee, reported that the work was to be taken up more actively 

 after the closing of the school year. 



The Club voted to support the application of Miss W. J. Rob- 

 inson for a grant from the Newberry Fund to aid her in the study 

 of Jamaica ferns. 



A communication from the organization committee for the 

 International Botanical Congress to be held in Vienna, June i 2 

 to 18, 1905, concerning the number of delegates the Club would 

 send to the Congress was read by Dr. Barnhart. It was moved 

 and carried that the Secretary be authorized to notify the com- 

 mittee that the Club expects to send three delegates. 



The first paper of the scientific program was by Dr. N. L. 

 Britton, on " Explorations in Florida and the Bahamas." This 

 was illustrated by maps and specimens, and described the general 

 features of the flora of the region of the part of subtropical Florida 

 south of Miami, to which a visit of three weeks' duration was 

 made in March and early .^Xpril with Mrs. Britton and Dr. M. A. 

 Howe, in cooperation with Professor P. H. Rolfs of the U. S. 

 Subtropical Laboratory. A detailed account of the flora was 

 not taken up, inasmuch as Dr. John K. Small, who explored the 

 same region last autumn, and who will again visit it in May, pro- 

 poses to publish a complete account of the material secured. Two 

 genera, new to the continent, both represented in P'iorida by a 

 single species were discovereti, Alvaradoa, in hammock lands, 

 and Srtc/isia in pine lands, both of these genera existing also in 

 Cuba and in the Bahamas. 



Dr. C. I'". Millsj)augh, of the h'icld Columbian Museum, joined 



