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consider some suitable project of holding this year some suitable 

 celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of our Club. 



A bill introduced in the legislature of New York state, "To 

 give protection to wild ducks, shore birds and rare native plants" 

 was read. This is Senate Bill 973 and amends the present 

 Conservation Law in relation to state game refuges.. To prepare 

 a resolution expressing our approval of the proposed amendment 

 and forward this statement to the Committee on Conservation 

 at Albany were appointed the Secretary and Professor R. A. 

 Harper. 



The following were elected to membership: Professor Henri 

 Hus, Ann Arbor, Mich., now a research student at the New York 

 Botanical Garden; Mr. Barrington Moore, 925 Park Avenue, 

 N. Y. City; Dr. James J. Concanon, 409 West 129th St., N. Y. 

 City. 



First on the announced scientific program was a paper by 

 Dr. Mel T. Cook, of New Brunswick, N. J., on "Parasitic Fungi 

 of New Jersey." The speaker's abstract follows: 



During the past five years the speaker and Mr. C. A. Schwarze 

 have been associated in making studies on the parasitic fungi of 

 New Jersey. This work originated in developing a method for 

 keeping records on parasitic fungi sent to us and also on our own 

 collections. In time our records and drawings have accumulated 

 to such an extent that it was deemed advisable to formulate 

 them into a bulletin which will be issued in the near future. 



Our studies have presented many questions, some of which 

 may be old to other workers but have proved very interesting to 

 us. 



First: What do we mean hy a parasitic fungus? As we extend 

 our studies the boundary lines between parasitic and saprophytic 

 forms becomes more and more indefinite and the number that 

 may be looked upon as facultative has become larger and larger. 

 Many forms that are parasitic in the field continue their work 

 of destruction on their host plants in storage. Among these 

 forms are Sphaeropsis malorum and Glomerella ruformaculans — 

 when in storage are they parasitic or saprophytic? Are apples 

 in storage living or dead? Are Rhizopus 7iigricans and Penicil- 



