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prise at finding that a number of plants above timberline were 

 the same as those found above timberline on mountains in 

 Norway. 



Mr. Hastings called the Club's attention to the fact that 

 Manasseh Cutler, whose picture has recently appeared on a 

 three cent postage stamp, is the first botanist to be so honored. 

 He also showed specimens of several interesting plants he had 

 found in California. 



Prof. Harper reported that he had been working a bit on 

 the identification of blackberries. 



Miss Nicholson told of her summer experiences in the botani- 

 cally-rich state of Vermont. 



Prof. Sinnott stated that he had been growing a great variety 

 of gourds during the summer. He also gave a short account of 

 the meeting of the Botanical Society in Nova Scotia, and of the 

 genetics meeting at Wood's Hole. 



Prof. Paul B. Sears from the University of Oklahoma re- 

 marked that timberline in the West is at a much higher altitude 

 than in the East, but that timberline in the Rockies is contin- 

 ually moving downward. 



Dr. Wodehouse reported on his travels in search of a hay 

 fever resort in Michigan and its rather discouraging results as 

 far as the hay fever victim is concerned. 



Dr. Graves told something of his chestnut investigations, 

 reporting that he had obtained seven hundred hybrid nuts. He 

 also gave an interesting account of the origin of the bald cy- 

 presses near Bear Mountain. 



Dr. Cheney told of his trip to Nova Scotia, Dr. Carey of 

 trying to isolate nitrifying bacteria at Wood's Hole, and Dr. 

 Mann of collecting near her summer home. Dr.Svenson reported 

 on his trip to Europe and Ireland and said he was impressed by 

 the paucity of species in Europe as compared to America. 



The meeting adjourned at 10 p.m. 



D. Elizabeth Marcy 

 Recording Secretary 



Meeting of October 20, 1937 



The meeting was called to order at 3:30 p.m. by the Presi- 

 dent at the New York Botanical Garden with 18 members 

 present. In the nature of old business J. S. Karling brought up 



