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Seaman Ave., Freeport, L. I. The following caiulidates were 

 elected Associates: Mr. Samuel Bender, 1849-74tli St., Brook- 

 lyn, N. Y.; Miss Emma Johnston, 166-17 33rd Ave., Flushing, 

 L. I.; Mr. Theodore G. Adams, 199-8th Ave., Brooklyn, N. ^^: 

 Miss Hannah Redlefsen, Montefiore Hospital, Gun Hill Road, 

 New York; Miss Martha H. Hollinshead, 504 Camden Ave., 

 Moorestown, N. J.; and Miss A. Jean Crozier, 99-21 Bell 

 Boulevard, Bayside, L. I. The resignation of Miss Grace Ran- 

 dall, 117 Lincoln Street, Passaic, N. J., as an Associate was 

 announced. 



The Corresponding Secretary then announced that Dr. 

 Edna Lind of Sheffield, England, had been appointed official 

 delegate of the Club to the 150th Anniversary Celebration of 

 the Linnean Society of London. 



The Scientific Program consisted of an illustrated and inter- 

 esting lecture by Dr. Gordon Utter of the Brooklyn Botanic 

 Garden and Hunter College on Culture and Inoculation Studies 

 on Races of the Loose and Covered Smuts of Oats. Dr. Utter 

 gave data and illustrations to show that successive culture 

 generations failed to remain constant in characteristic. Sixteen 

 new smut types were produced which exhibited recombinations 

 of factors for symptoms, morphology, and pathogenicity. 



The meeting adjourned at 4:45 p.m. 



J. S. Karling 

 Corresponding Secretary 



Meeting of October 4, 1938 



The first meeting in the fall of 1938, held in the Children's 

 Garden Club room of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, was called 

 to order by President Gunderson at 8:15 p.m. with 34 persons 

 present. 



Resolutions to be sent to the wife of our late President, 

 Raymond H. Torrey, were read by Dr. J. S. Karling, after 

 which they were unanimously approved by a rising \ote of the 

 Club. 



Minutes of the previous meetings w^ere read and after due 

 corrections were adopted by the Club. 



The following candidates were elected to membership: An- 

 nual — Mr. Frederick \\\ Lewis, 39-40 Little Neck Parkway, 

 Little Neck, N.Y.; Mr. James Merry, Botany Department, 



