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agriculture, uninfluenced by Old World contacts, a view dia- 

 metrically opposed to that held by certain ethnologists. 



Meeting adjourned about ten o'clock, after which refresh- 

 ments were served. 



Form ax T. McLean 

 Secretary 



MINUTES OF THE TORREY BOTANICAL CLUB 

 Meeting of December 19, 1931 



The meeting of December 19 in conjunction with the New 

 York Biology Teachers was called for ten o'clock, although 

 members and visitors came individually throughout the day. 



An informal gathering was called together by President Sin- 

 nott at the Exhibition in the east wing of the Museum Building 

 of The New York Botanical Garden at half past ten and Di- 

 rector E. D. Merrill of The New York Botanical Garden gave 

 a short address stressing advantages and opportunities for bio- 

 logical studies at The New York Botanical Garden, particularly 

 the advantages of the library, of the herbarium and of the living 

 plant collections. 



Exhibits were staged by seven of the high schools and other 

 institutions as follows: 



Evander Childs High School, under the direction of Mr. 

 Paul B. Mann, staged an exhibit on plant nutrition by Gertrude 

 Twomey, mutations of the Boston fern by L. Eisman, illustra- 

 tive material useful in teaching biology to blind students by 

 Miss Maude L. Repath, and six demonstrations of microscopic 

 objects prepared and set up by members of Evander's Micros- 

 copy Club. 



Theodore Roosevelt High School, under the direction of Mr. 

 George T. Hastings, set up flower pollination models. 



James Monroe High School set up two exhibits, one by Mr. 

 Joseph Singerman on safety in boiling alcohol and another by 

 John Arvonio on a new cure for rickets. 



Thomas Jefferson High School set up an exhibit on growing 

 plants and Japanese gardens. 



DeWitt Clinton High School exhibited thirty photomicro- 

 graphs made by the students. 



