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Finance. — Judge Addison Brown, Prof. H. M. Richards. 



Admissions. — Dr. J. K. Small, Mr. G. V. Nash, Dr. C. C. 

 Curtis. 



Local Flora. — (Phanerogams) Dr. R. M. Harper, Dr. N. L. 

 Britton, Miss Fanny A. Mulford, Mr. Eugene P. Bicknell, Mr. 

 Richard Schneider; (Cryptogams) Mrs. E. G. Britton, Dr. M. A. 

 Howe, Mr. R. S. Williams, Dr. W. A. Murrill, Dr. Philip 

 Dowell. 



Program. — Dr. Tracy E. Hazen, Dr. E. B. Southwick, Mr. 

 Charles L. Pollard, Mrs. E. G. Britton, Miss Jean Broadhurst. 



Field Meetijigs. — Mr. Charles L. Pollard, Mr. G. V. Nash, 

 Mr. F. K. Vreeland. 



The special committee on the "budget" for 1908 made a 

 report on the estimated income and expenditures of the Club for 

 the current year. 



Dr. E. B. Southwick moved the appointment of a special com- 

 mittee to draft resolutions on the death of Morris K. Jesup, late 

 president of the American Museum of Natural History. The 

 chairman appointed as such committee Dr. E. B. Southwick, Dr. 

 John Hendley Barnhart, and Dr. N. L. Britton. 



The scientific program of the evening consisted of an illus- 

 trated lecture by Dr. A. J. Grout under the title " A botanist's 

 Vacation in North Carolina." The lecture was of a semi-pop- 

 ular character and the numerous lantern-slides from photographs 

 taken by the speaker illustrated the scenery and fauna as well as 

 the flora of the mountains of western North Carolina, The 

 speaker's abstract follows : 



Seven weeks of last summer's vacation were passed in the 

 " Pink Beds " on the estate of Geo. W. Vanderbilt about forty 

 miles west of Asheville and twelve miles from Brevard. Our 

 visit was made possible and profitable through the assistant 

 director of the Biltmore Forest School, Dr. Clifton D. Howe. 

 The " Pink Beds " is a mountain valley over 3,000 feet above 

 sea-level and derives its name from the color given to the whole 

 valley in spring by the innumerable blossoms of Azalea, Rhodo- 

 dendron, and Kalmia. The climate is cool, like that of Vermont 

 and New Hampshire, but the almost daily thunderstorms, often 



