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The minutes of the meeting of December 21 were adopted as 

 read. 



Mrs. Mary Holtzoff, 557 West 148th St., N. Y. C. and 

 Sr. J. P. Carabia, Vedado, Habana, Cuba, (associate member), 

 were elected to annual membership. 



Mr. Adolph Henning, 421 Hillside Place, South Orange, 

 N. J. and Miss Anna Harvey, 71-27, 65th Street, Glendale, 

 Long Island were elected associate members of the Club. 



The resignation of Prof. Charles P. Smith, Route 1, Saratoga, 

 Calif, was accepted with regret. 



After the annual reports of the officers and committee chair- 

 man of the Club an open discussion was held on how the meet- 

 ings of the Club might be made more interesting to the members. 



The result of the election of new officers by ballot, reported 

 by the Corresponding Secretary, Dr. J. S. Karling, was an- 

 nounced. The list of officers appears on the inside front cover of 

 this issue of Torreya. 



Dr. Alfred Gunderson as retiring president of the Club very 

 ably revived the idea of the importance of an outdoor univer- 

 sity stressing the fact that laboratory w^ork should not be the 

 beginning of a study of botany but should supplement field 

 work. 



The meeting adjourned at 8:25 p.m. 



Clyde Chandler 

 Recording Secretary 



Meeting of January 18, 1939 at the New York 

 Botanical Garden 



The meeting of the Torrey Club was called to order at 3:30 

 P.M. by the Corresponding Secretary, J. S. Karling. Twenty-six 

 persons were present. Since neither the President nor the Vice- 

 Presidents w'ere present Dr. Karling was elected Chairman of 

 the meeting. 



The minutes of the meeting of January 3 were read and 

 after certain deletions were adopted by the Club. 



Miss Gertrude Moodey, 603 Watchung Ave., Plainfield, 

 N. J. and Dr. William Brown, Botanical Laboratory, Johns 

 Hopkins University, Homewood, Baltimore, Md., were elected 

 to annual membership. 



Dr. Ray J. Davis, Department of Botany, University of 



