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of the club, also, the date of the first meeting in January was 

 changed to January 8, the first Tuesday being New Year's Day. 

 For the scientific program Dr. Albert C. Smith, Associate 

 Curator at the New York Botanical Garden, spoke on "Plant 

 Collecting in Fiji, " illustrating his talk with a series of beauti- 

 fully colored lantern slides. The talk was followed by general 

 discussion, with adjournment at 9:35 p.m. 



Arthur H. Graves 

 Secretary pro tern. 



Meeting of December 18, 1934 



The Meeting was called to order at Schermerhorn Hall, 

 Columbia University at 8:15 p.m. by President Hazen. There 

 were one hundred and seventy-one present. 



The following were elected to membership in the Club : Pro- 

 fessor T. C. Frye, University of Washington, Seattle, Wash.; 

 Professor Herbert C. Hanson, Department of Botany, N. D. 

 Agricultural College, Fargo, N. D.; Mr. John H. Schaffner, De- 

 partment of Botany, Ohio State University, Columbus, O.; 

 Miss Ruth V. Schmidt, 620 Plankington Avenue, Cudahy, Wis. ; 

 Professor Thomas W. Whitaker, Agnes Scott College, Decatur, 

 Ga.; Mr. Hans Wilkens, 241 South 11th Street, Reading, Pa. 



The resignation of Professor C. B. Atwell, 901 California 

 Street, San Francisco, Calif, was accepted with regret. 



Dr. Edmund W. Sinnott of Barnard College, Columbia Uni- 

 versity was unanimously designated as the nomination of the 

 Club for official delegate of the United States to the Interna- 

 tional Botanical Congress at Amsterdam this summer. 



Dr. H. Hamshaw Thomas of The Botany School, Cam- 

 bridge, England gave an interesting talk on "The Origin of 

 Flowers." This talk was illustrated by lantern slides. 



Forman T. McLean 

 Secretary 



