PROCEEDINGS OF THE CLUB 

 Meeting of March 15, 1933 



The meeting was called to order at 3:30 p.m. by President 

 Blakeslee. There were thirty members present. The minutes of 

 the meetings of February 15 and March 7 were read and ap- 

 proved. 



Mr. B. A. Krukoff, c/o Messrs. G. W. Cole & Co., 82 Wall 

 Street, New York, N. Y. was elected to membership in the club. 



The resignations of Mr. L. W. Nuttall and Mr. R. S. Williams 

 were accepted with regret. 



Dr. Marshall A. Howe reported the death of Dr. Arthur 

 Hollick, one of the oldest members of the Club, on March 11, a 

 little more than a month after completing his seventy-sixth 

 year. Dr. Hollick joined the Torrey Botanical Club, with Dr. 

 N. L. Britton, in October, 1877, and had enjoyed an uninter- 

 rupted active membership of nearly fifty-six years. Dr. Howe 

 read Dr. Hollick's interesting "Torrey Botanical Club Remi- 

 niscences," presented on the occasion of the semi-centennial of 

 the Club in 1917 and published in volume 17 of the Memoirs. 

 It is expected that a more extended notice of the life and career 

 of Dr. Hollick will appear in an early number of the Bulletin. 



Dr. John W. Shive of the New Jersey Agricultural Experi- 

 ment Station gave an interesting talk on "The Distribution of 

 Iron in Plants." This talk was illustrated by lantern slides. 



Forman T. McLean 

 Secretary 



Meeting of April 4, 1933 



The meeting was called to order at the American Museum of 

 Natural History by Vice-President R. P. Wodehouse at 8:15 

 p.m. with forty members present. 



Mr. E. J. Alexander, Curator of the Local Herbarium of The 

 New York Botanical Garden, gave an interesting talk on "Local 

 Flora." After a few remarks as to the favorable situation of 

 New York for the study of a variety of floras, a number of slides 

 were shown of common and of rare plants with comments as to 



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