PROCEEDINGS OF THE CLUB 

 \hi riNG < >i April 1 7, 1935 



The meeting <>l the above date was held at the Brooklyn 

 Botanic Garden and was called to order by President Hazen at 

 3:40 P. M. The minutes of the meetings of March 20 and April 

 2 were read and approved. Fourteen members were present. The 

 following persons were elected to full membership: Mr. K. 1). 

 Doak, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa.; Dr. Georg 

 Cafondontis, Via Acquarone 3/7. Genoa, Italy; Mr. Wm. C. 

 Brumbach, 2610 Cumberland Avenue, Mt. Penn, Pa. 



Notice of the change of status of the following, who have 

 signified their desire to become field members, was also given: 

 Mr. Charles Greenberg, 924 Kelley Street, N. Y. C. ; Miss Frieda 

 Lichtman, 395 Riverside Drive, N. V. C; Miss Alice Halsey, 

 Garrison, N. Y. 



The scientific part of the program consisted of a talk by Dr. 

 H. K. Svenson, Curator of the Herbarium, Brooklyn Botanic 

 Garden, entitled The Bidens Problem in Eastern New York. 

 This was followed by an inspection of the Local Floral Area of 

 the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. 



Arthur H. Graves 

 Secretary pro tern. 



Meeting of May 7, 1935 



The meeting of the Torrey Botanical Club was held at the 

 American Museum of Natural History on the above date and 

 was called to order by President Hazen at 8:15 P. M. There 

 were thirteen people present. 



The meeting of the second week of May was postponed to 

 May 29th at 3:30 P. M. at The New York Botanical Garden. 



Dr. Forman T. McLean, Supervisor of Public Education at 

 The New York Botanical Garden gave a talk on "Plant Life of 

 South Africa." This talk was illustrated by lantern slides. 



Formax T. McLean 

 Secretarv 



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