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Edward S. Burgess occupied the chair. The attendance was 

 fourteen. 



After the reading and approval of the minutes for December, 

 1907, the following names were presented for membership : 



Professor William L. Bray, Syracuse University, Syracuse, 

 N. Y. 



Mr. Frank Dunn Kern, Agric. Exp. Station, Lafayette, Ind. 



This being the annual business meeting of the Club, the chair- 

 man called for the reports of officers for 1907. Reports of the 

 secretary, treasurer, editor, and corresponding secretary were 

 read, accepted, and placed on file. 



The secretary reported that fourteen regular meetings had 

 been held during the year with a total attendance of 306, as 

 against 219 in 1906, and an average attendance of 21.8, as 

 against 16.8 last year. A total of 37 formal papers was pre- 

 sented before the club, distributed according to subject-matter as 

 follows : taxonomy, 5 ; physiology, 6 ; morphology, 4 ; ecology, 

 7 ; regional botany, 5 ; exploration, 2 ; lantern lectures, 4 ; mis- 

 cellaneous, 4. In addition to these were numerous informal 

 notes and exhibitions of specimens. 



The editor reported the publication of one number of the 

 Memoirs, of 47 pages, and the issuance of the Bulletin and of 

 Torreya as usual. The need of an adequate index to the Bulletin 

 from volume one to thirty, inclusive, was strongly emphasized. 



On behalf of the committee on the local flora, the chairman. 

 Dr. Britton, urged the need of increased activity, and emphasized 

 the desirability of preparing a special work on the flora of New 

 York City and vicinity. At present no such work exists. 



Resignations from membership from Mr. Percy L. Ricker and 

 Miss Bina Seymour were read and accepted. 



The secretary was instructed to cast the ballot of the Club 

 electing to active membership the persons proposed as above. 



Election of officers for the year 1908 resulted in the election 

 of the following ticket : 



President : Henry Hurd Rusby. 



Vice-Presidents : Edward Sandford Burgess and John Hendley 

 Barnhart. 



