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Street, Boonton, N. J.; Mr. Charles E. Mohr, 815 Greenwich 

 Street, Reading, Pa. and Miss Libra Palmeri, 313-17th Street, 

 Brooklyn, N. Y. 



The resignation of Mr. Frank Mayer, 165 East 88th Street, 

 Ne\v York, N. Y., an associate member, was reported. 



yiiss Rosalie Rosenberg, 32 East 64th Street, an annual 

 member for 40 years, was elected to Life Membership. 



Miss Lela \'. Barton was elected a member of the Council 

 to fill the vacancy left by Dr. Carey in the 1937-1939 group. 



Dr. W. S. Thomas and Mr. James Alurphy were elected 

 members of the Council to fill the vacancies in the 1938-1940 

 group. 



A plan proposed by the Appalachian Mountain Club for a 

 memorial to Raymond H. Torrey was presented to the Club by 

 Dr. J. S. Karling. 



"There are two hundred acres on Anthony's Nose, facing 

 the river, which constitute a dangerous quarry site. Approxi- 

 mately $12,000 is needed to purchase this land. The Hudson 

 River Conservation Society has raised S7,000 towards it. It 

 has been suggested that a most beautiful and appropriate 

 memorial to Mr. Raymond H. Torrey could be made if the 

 members of the New York and New Jersey out-door clubs could 

 contribute the remaining S5,000 necessary to complete the 

 purchase. With this money a tract of about 100 acres could be 

 set aside in memory of Mr. Torrey. The entire 200 acres will 

 be given to the State to be used for park purposes only. Your 

 gift will serve a double purpose: saving beautiful and historic 

 Anthony's Nose from destruction, and creating a memorial to 

 Mr. Torrey in the region he loved so well." 



No action was taken by the Club. 



The scientific part of the program consisted of a report by 

 Miss Vivian Trombetta on her research investigations on 

 "Cytonuclear Relationship in Plant Cells." 



The speaker's abstract follows: 



"From the time of Strasburger, Sachs and Hertwig, bota- 

 nists and zoologists have tried to connect problems of growth of 

 living cells with the nucleocytoplasmic ratio — i.e. the relation- 

 ship of nucleus to active cytoplasm. In mature plant cells where 

 a large vacuole is found, it is practically impossible to determine 

 the volume of the cytoplasm with any degree of accuracy, 

 pushed as it is against the wall in a thin film of unequal thick- 



