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Dr. II. A. < rleason, who was appointed as one of the two dele- 

 gates fnun the Torrey Botanical Club to the International Bo- 

 tanical Congress, stated that he could not attend. Accordingly 

 the Council recommended Dr. Tracy Ha/en to lake the place 

 of Dr. Gleason as representative in the Congress and also to 

 represent the Club in the nomenclature discussion at Amster- 

 dam. As he could not be present he \\ as ant horized to appoint a 

 substitute to represent the club. 



It was moved by Dr. Hazen that the Budget for 1935 be 

 the same as that of 1934, as recommended by the Council. 

 This motion was unanimously passed. 



Dr. A. B. Stout, Director of the Laboratories of The New 

 York Botanical Garden gave an illustrated talk on the "Studies 

 of Seedless Grapes." 



Mrs. Wanda K. Farr of the Boyce Thompson Institute also 

 gave an interesting talk on the "Formation and microscopic 

 structure of cellulose membranes." This talk was also illus- 

 trated- Formax T. McLean 



Secretary 



Miss Helene Lunt 

 Miss Helene Lunt, an active and valuable member of the 

 field committee of the Torrey Botanical Club, died on Aug. 3, 

 after a long illness. Miss Lunt will be remembered by those who 

 enjoyed her keen observations and wide knowledge of plants 

 and birds, on field trips of this club and of the Linnaean Society. 

 She was very helpful to the Chairman of the Field Committee 

 in volunteering to lead at least two trips every season. She was 

 thorough and painstaking on these trips, scouting the regions 

 beforehand to make sure of interesting objectives for the mem- 

 bers to enjoy on the scheduled date. This carefulness and ac- 

 curacy made her an ideal leader for such trips, and she will be 

 missed in this phase of the club's activities. She continued her 

 interest in the outdoors, though in declining health, up to within 

 a few weeks of her death. My last communication from her was 

 from Caldwell, N. J., where she was seeking recuperation, when 

 she sent me a flowering branch of the rare shrub, Dirca palus- 

 tris, which she had found along a stream near that town. Her 

 death is a loss to those who appreciated her active mind, alert 

 to all outdoor things, and her extensive acquaintance with the 

 plants of the club's range. Raymond H. Torrey 



