54 



were presented, representing numerous lines of botanical stud)'. 

 The following officers were elected for the ensuing year: Presi- 

 dent, Ezra Brainerd ; vice-president, C. G. Pringle ; secretary, Pro- 

 fessor L. R. Jones ; treasurer, Mrs. Nellie F. Flynn ; members to 

 serve with the officers as executive committee. Professor J. 

 W. Votey, Mrs. Sarah K. Lord, and Carlton D. Howe. A com- 

 mittee was appointed to investigate the feasibility of attempting 

 to publish the proceedings and the papers presented before the 

 club. For the summer meeting in July a boat will probably be 

 chartered for a cruise among the islands and along the shore of 

 Lake Champlain. 



Dr. and Mrs. W. A. Murrill are spending a month in Cuba, 

 where they are occupied chiefly in making collections of fleshy 

 fungi for the New York Botanical Garden. 



Dr. C. Stuart Gager, assistant in the laboratories of the New 

 York Botanical Garden, has been acting professor of botany in 

 Rutgers College, New Brunswick, New Jersey, since January. 

 Dr. Gager will have charge of the botanical instruction in the 

 summer sessions of the New York University. 



The Associated Press dispatches announce that Colonel Valery 

 Havard was one of the two American attaches of the Russian 

 army who were captured by the Japanese during the recent battle 

 of Mukden. Dr. Havard is a well-known member of the Torrey 

 Club and is author of several papers relating to American eco- 

 nomic plants. He left New York on November \y under com- 

 mission to join the Russian army in Manchuria as military 

 medical observer for the United States. 



Dr. and Mrs. N. L. Britton and Dr. Marshall A. Howe, of 

 the New York Botanical Garden, and Dr. C. F. Millspaugh of 

 the Field Columbian Museum, Chicago, have returned from a 

 six weeks' collecting expedition to the Bahama Islands. A 

 schooner was chartered at Nassau and visits were made to the 

 Ikrry Islands, the Great l^ahama, and the islands of the ICxuma 

 Chain. The collections include living plants, herbarium speci- 

 mens, and fluid-preserved material, representing about 1,400 col- 

 lection numbers of spermatoi)hytes and higher cryptogams and 

 about 9CO of marine algae. 



