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Professor R. A. Harper gave an illustrated lecture on "A 

 Century of Botany." 



Meeting adjourned. 



B. O. Dodge, 



Secretary. 

 May 23, 1917 



The meeting was held in the morphological laboratory of the 

 New York Botanical Garden at 3:30 P.M. President Richards 

 occupied the chair. Thirteen persons were present. 



The minutes of the meetings of April 25 and May 8 were read 

 and approved. 



Mr. John Enequist, The Chatelaine, iiii Dean St., Brooklyn, 

 was proposed for membership by Dr. X. L. Britton. 



Dr. F. J. Seaver, in behalf of the program committee, asked 

 for suggestions for the improvement of the Club's meetings. 



The acting secretary announced the death of one of the Club's 

 members, Mr. Lycurgus R. Moyer, of Montevideo, Minnesota, 

 and showed obituary notices of the deceased. 



The resignation of Mr. A. M. Johnson of Spokane, Washington, 

 was read and accepted. 



The following persons were elected to membership, subject to 

 the approval of the committee on admissions: Mrs. Jerome W. 

 Coombs, Scarsdale, N. Y.; Mr. John Enequist, mi Dean St., 

 Brooklyn, X. Y.; Miss Helen E. Greenwood, 5 Benefit Terrace, 

 Worcester, Mass.; and Mrs. Alice R. Xorthrop, 520 East 77th 

 St., New York City. 



The first paper on the scientific program was a discussion of 

 "The Rusty-spored Agarics of Xorth America" by Dr. W. A. 

 Murrill. 



This large and difficult group of gill-fungi contains about seven- 

 teen genera, some of them with one hundred to three hundred 

 species. Professor C. H. Kauffman is monographing Inocybe 

 and Cortinarius for the Xorth American Flora, while Mr. L. O. 

 Overholts has undertaken Pholiota. 



In a part of X^orth American Flora now in press, the following 

 genera are treated: Tapinia, Paxillus, Crepidotus, Tuharia, 

 Galerida {Galera), Naucoria, Pluteoltis, Mycena {Bolbitiiis) , 



