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Idaho, Southern Branch, Pocatello, Idaho, was elected an 

 associate member. 



The following resignations were reported : Annual : Mr. G. 

 Russell Fessenden, 5130 Connecticut Ave., Washington, D. C; 

 Mr. Henry O. Severence, University of Missouri, Columbia, 

 Mo., and Mr. Abraham Rabinowitz, 610 West 163rd St., New 

 York, N. Y. Associate: Miss Mabel Foellner, Ferndale, Penn. 

 and Miss Francis Johnston, 10 Mitchell PL, New York, N. Y. 



Dr. Harold N. Moldenke read an excerpt from a letter re- 

 ceived from Alexander W. Burkhardt which follows: 



"For the information of the Torrey Botanical Club Members 

 you might report that there is now $313.25 on deposit for the 

 Raymond H. Torrey Memorial Fund at the Bank for Savings, 

 280 4th Ave., New York City. Of this sum your members 

 have contributed $118.50. The balance $194.25 with the excep- 

 tion of a few small contributions has all been donated by mem- 

 bers of the Green Mountain Club. Checks are still coming in, 

 only yesterday I received six dollars. Several G. M. C. members 

 have pledged money which I should receive during the next few 

 weeks." 



It was voted that the meeting of February 15 be held at the 

 Brooklyn Botanic Garden. 



The President announced the committees for the coming 

 year. They are given on the inside back cover of this issue of 

 Torrey a. 



The scientific part of the program consisted of reports on : (1) 

 the study of the development and differentiation of the mega- 

 and microsporangia of Regnellidium diphyllum by Dr. M. A. 

 Chrysler of Rutgers University and (2) The Study of the Male 

 and Female Gametophytes of Regnellidium diphyllum by Mr. 

 N. L. Higinbotham. 



The speaker's abstracts follow : 



"The work here reported continues the study of material of 

 Regnellidium, which was put into the writer's hands after the 

 death of Dr. D. S. Johnson. Stages in the development and dif- 

 ferentiation of the mega- and microsporarigia were traced, and 

 the shape of the apical cell has. been determined. The formation 

 and behavior of the tapetum was described, especially its role 

 in building the remarkable epispore of the megaspore wall. The 

 spores of the three genera of Marsilleaceae were compared." 



^'Regnellidium, an aquatic fern found only in Brazil, is a 



