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The minutes of the meeting held October lo were read and 

 approved. 



Miss Grace G. Lyman, 507 W. 121st St., N. Y. City, and Dr. 

 Henry B. Douglass, 452 Riverside Drive, N. Y. City, were 

 nominated for membership. 



Dr. Britton suggested that it would be advisable to have a 

 committee appointed to represent the Club in case it should seem 

 desirable to take an active part in connection with the coming 

 meetings of the Botanical Society of America and the American 

 Association for the Advancement of Science in New York City. 

 A motion was carried to appoint as such committee, with power, 

 the members of the "subcommittee of the local committee" of 

 the A. A. A. S. The members of this committee: Professor R. A. 

 Harper, Dr. C. Stuart Gager, Prof. H. M. Richards, Prof. E. S. 

 Burgess, and Prof. Bertram Butler, are also members of the 

 Torrey Club. 



Miss Grace G. L^man was then elected to membership. 



Mr. George V. Xash exhibited a flowering specimen of an 

 interesting plant, a species of Monodora, then in flower in the 

 conservatories of the N. Y. Botanical Garden. "The plant is 

 about ten feet tall and was a gift of Miss Helen Gould in 1900. 

 The Genus Monodora was based upon two species, M. Myristica 

 and M. microcarpa, the latter now referred to Diospyros. Mono- 

 dora Myristica was based on Anona Myristica Gaertn., who saw 

 fruit of it in the Banksian Herbarium. Dunal referred to this as 

 a native of Jamaica. In Botanical Magazine this is figured at 

 plate 3059, the material from which the illustration was prepared 

 coming from a Jamaican plant; this plant was said to have been 

 brought from South America to the Retreat Estate, Clarendon, 

 Jamaica. It is known as the calabash nutmeg. 



"This plate does not quite agree with the present material, 

 but at plate 7260 of the same work is figured a plant of Monodora 

 grandiflora. This very closely resembles the specimen shown. 

 It is a native of tropical west Africa, and Oliver, in his flora of 

 tropical Africa, considers it a variety of M. Myristica under the 

 name grandiflora. 



"The genus Monodora is confined to tropical Africa, and con- 



