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none was received with inf)re t^enuine a[)preciation and honor 

 than Professor dc Vries. No more fitting memorial of his sum- 

 mer in America could have been left to his delighted hosts than 

 this series of charming lectures on the most fundamental prob- 

 lems of biology, and one may safely predict that the work will 

 further stimulate the interest that has awakened everywhere in 

 experimental research in variation and heredity, the two funda- 

 mental processes of organic evolution. 



George Harrison Shull. 



Station for Experimkntal Evolution, 

 Cold Spring Harbor, Nkw York, 

 April, 1905. 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE CLUB 

 Wednesday, March 29, 1905 



This meeting was held at the New York Botanical Garden, 

 Vice-President Underwood in the chair and twenty-three addi- 

 tional members present. 



Mrs. L. Schoney, of New York, and Miss Caroline S. Romer, 

 of Newark, were elected to membership. The scientific program 

 consisted of " Remarks on Californian Conifers " by Le Roy 

 Abrams. 



The conifers of California have been of extreme interest to the 

 botanical world from the time that that region was first explored. 

 Nowhere do we find such unique trees as the sequoias, and no- 

 where is there such a profusion of genera and species. Nearly 

 two thirds of the species of the United States, and all but two of 

 the genera occur within the state. The distribution of these 

 species, especially of some of the more local ones, is of con- 

 siderable interest, and it was upon this subject that Mr. Abrams 

 chiefly dwelt. 



By far the greater number of species occur in the extreme 

 northern part of the state. Here, within a radius scarcel}- ex- 

 ceeding one hundred miles no less than eleven genera and at 

 least thirty species may be met with. This great profusion is 



