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Meeting of January 13, 1903 



This, the annual meeting, was held at the College of Phar- 

 macy ; seventeen present ; Dr. H. H. Rusby in the chair. 



The minutes for December 9 were read and approved. The 

 announced meeting of December 31 was reported adjourned. 



Election to active membership included three : Mr. Marshall 

 H. Bright, Tarrytown, N. Y.; Mr. L. C. LeRoy, 6 Lexington 

 Ave., New York City ; Miss Mary M. Brackett, 640 West 1 1 5th 

 St., New York City. 



Annual reports of officers were made as follows : 



By the treasurer, Professor F. E. Lloyd, reporting a balance 

 in the treasury. 



By the recording secretary, Professor E. S. Burgess, present- 

 ing the bound volume of minutes for the year 1902, and report- 

 ing a present active membership of 238, and total membership 

 of 384 ; 17 meetings during the year with average attendance of 

 19; 34 papers presented, besides about 33 minor communica- 

 tions or brief notes. 



By the corresponding secretary, Dr. J. K. Small, reporting at- 

 tendance upon the foreign correspondence of the Club. 



By the editor-in-chief, Dr. L. M. Underwood, reporting 1902 

 as the Club's most productive year of publication, both as re- 

 gards text and plates, with a total 1,761 octavo pages and 90 

 plates. This was partly in consequence of the number of Mem- 

 oirs printed, two intended for 1901 having been delayed till 1902. 



By the editor of Torreya, Dr. M. A. Howe, reporting a favor- 

 able increase in the subscriptions outside the club membership. 



By Dr. N. L. Britton, chairman of the committee on local flora, 

 calling attention to the need of the prosecution of local studies. 



By Dr. L. M. Underwood, chairman of the committee on the 

 Cryptogamia, reporting the local value of Dr. Tracy E. Hazen's 

 recent monograph on the Chaetophoraceae and Ulothricaceae, 

 based very largely on material collected in or near New York 

 City. The local fleshy fungi have been extensively collected 

 during the past year by Professor F. S. Earle, including some 

 1,400 numbers. 



The report of the chairman of the field committee, Dr. Schoe- 



