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University, Ithaca, N. Y.; Miss Dorothy M. Miller, 3228 

 Decatur Avenue, New York, N. Y.; Miss Hazel Holly, Monte- 

 fiore Hospital, Gun Hill Road, New York, N. Y. 



The resignation of Professor Will S. Monroe was accepted 

 with regret. 



Dr. Paul R. Burkholder of Columbia University gave a talk 

 on "Movement in the Blue Green Algae." 



Mr. Edmund H. Fulling of the New York Botanical Gar- 

 den gave a talk on "Microprojection of Cross-Sections of Fir 

 Leaves." 



Forman T. McLean 

 Secretary 



Meeting of December 5, 1933 



Meeting was called to order at the American Museum of 

 Natural History at 8:15 p.m. by President Blakeslee. There 

 were 50 members present. 



Dr. Paul R. Burkholder, Schermerhorn Hall, Columbia Uni- 

 versity, New York City and Mr. Andor Hacker, 2474 Valentine 

 Avenue, New York City were unanimously elected to member- 

 ship in the Club. 



A talk on "Plants of Hawaii" was given by Mr. Otto De- 

 gener, now at the New York Botanical Garden, who was a 

 resident in the Hawaiian Islands for a number of years. 



The subject, essentially a review of the speaker's first book, 

 dealt with the volcanic origin of the Islands, their initial barren 

 character and their gradual acquirement of a native flora by the 

 import of spores and seeds through the agency of wind, ocean 

 currents and birds. Due to geographic isolation and to changed 

 ecologic conditions, the early plant immigrants to Hawaii for 

 the most part gave rise to offspring now differing from their 

 congeners remaining on the continents. So many of the off- 

 spring have become modified that 85 percent of the native 

 Hawaiian flora is peculiar to the Islands. 



Since the coming of the Polynesian, Caucasian and Oriental 

 Races, the character of the flora in the Hawaiian Islands is 

 radically changing. The Polynesians introduced various plants 

 valuable as food or in their pursuit of the arts and medicine. 

 Among these may be mentioned the banana, the breadfruit, the 

 mountain apple, certain varieties of coconut and sugarcane, the 



