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In a forest ravine, Wingfield Estate, St. Kitts, B. VV. I., N. L. 

 Britton and J. F. Cowell, September, 1901, no. 457. Professor 

 Urban would include this plant in U. Caracasana (Jacq.) Gaud., 

 but a comparison with numerous specimens of this plant from 

 northern South America, and an examination of Jacquin's figures 

 of Urtica Caracasana, in Hort. Schoenbr. pi. 386 indicates to me 

 that it cannot properly be so referred, and I therefore venture to 

 describe it as above. N. L. Britton. 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE CLUB 



Wednesday, April 29, 1903 



The meeting was held at the New York Botanical Garden with 

 Dr. MacDougal in the chair. Twenty-five persons were present. 



The minutes for the two previous meetings were read and ap- 

 proved. 



Miss M. A. Parker, 797 Madison Avenue, New York City, 

 and Mr. Macy Carhart, Keyport, N. J., having been duly 

 nominated and the nominations being approved by the com- 

 mittee on admissions, were elected as members of the Club. 



Dr. Marshall A. Howe proposed the name of Mr. Homer D. 

 House, of Columbia University, for membership ; referred to the 

 committee on admissions. 



The resignation of Miss A. May Palmer as a member of the 

 club, having been approved by the treasurer, was accepted. 



A letter was read from Mr. M. P. Rich announcing the death 

 of his brother, Dr. Jacob M. Rich. Dr. Rich had long been an 

 honored member of the club and on motion the secretary was 

 instructed to write Mr. Rich, expressing the sympathy of the 

 members of the club and their sense of the great loss sustained. 



A letter from Mr. Roland M. Harper was read, asking the 

 club to endorse his application to the Scientific Alliance of New 

 York for a grant of $150.00 from the Herrman Fund, for the 

 purpose of continuing his phytogeographical explorations in the 

 coastal plain of Georgia and adjacent territory with a view to 

 completing the material necessary for publishing a flora of that 



