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There was considerable discussion, after which the meeting 

 adjourned at 4:45 p.m. 



D. Klizabeth Marcy 

 Recording Secretary 



The Annual Meeting, January 4, 1938 



The annual dinner of the Torrey Botanical Club was held 

 at the Men's Faculty Club, Columbia University, at 6:30 p.m. 

 There were fifty-nine persons present. At the close of the dinner 

 the annual business meeting was called to order. President 

 Barnhart presiding. The minutes of the preceding meeting were 

 read and accepted. 



The resignations of Prof. James P. Bennett, University of 

 California, Dr. Wright MacMillan, Montclair, New Jersey, and 

 Mr. George Henry Schneller, Corona, New York, were accepted 

 with regret. 



The annual reports of the corresponding secretary, recording 

 secretary, treasurer, editor of the Bulletin, editor of Torreya, 

 business manager and bibliographer were read. Also the chair- 

 men of the program committee, field committee, and local flora 

 committees gave brief resumes of the work done by these com- 

 mittees during the year. 



Dr. B. O. Dodge, delegate to the council of the New York 

 Academy of Sciences, and Dr. T. E. Hazen, representative on 

 the board of managers of the New York Botanical Garden, gave 

 short reports. 



The resignation of Dr. Chrysler as editor of the Bulletin 

 having been accepted by the council, a motion was made that 

 the Club e.xtend to him its sincere thanks for his services during 

 the past five years. This was carried with a rising vote of thanks 

 to Dr. Chrysler. 



Dr. Blakeslee made the humane motion that hereafter the 

 ballots be counted before dinner thus giving the tellers the op- 

 portunity of eating. This was carried. 



The need of Biological Abstracts for the financial support of 

 all biologists was presented to the Club, and the vote of the 

 council "that the Club support Biological Abstracts to the full 

 extent of its facilities" was read to the Club members. There 

 was considerable discussion of this proposition. The possibility 

 of making a contribution compulsory was considered. The treas- 



