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Resolved: 



That a committee of three members be appointed to frame 

 resolutions appreciative of the services of Professor Richards to 

 the Club and to botanical science, for presentation at such 

 adjourned meeting, and 

 Resolved: 



That this Committee act also as a committee to nominate 

 officers of the Club for the year 1928. 



By vote of the Club these resolutions were approved, and the 

 following committee appointed to carry out their last two 

 provisions : 



Professor R. A. Harper, Chairman 

 Professor E. S. Burgess 

 Dr. N. L. Britton 

 In accordance with the first resolution, as a mark of respect 

 to the memory of the late President, the meeting was then 

 adjourned. 



Respectfully submitted 



Arthur H. Graves, 



Secretary 



NEWS NOTES 



Professor Herbert Maule Richards, president of the 

 Torrey Botanical Club since 1917, died at his home on 

 Riverside Drive, New York, on January ninth. 



Dr. Richards had been professor of botany at Barnard 

 College for twenty years. 



Secretary of Agriculture Jardine announced the latter part of 

 December a revision of the corn borer quarantine. This adds to 

 the area already under quarantine seven hundred and eighty-one 

 townships in Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, Pennsyl- 

 vania, Ohio, Indiana, and Michigan. In New York the County 

 of Suffolk and parts of Delaware and Ulster Counties were added, 

 making practically the entire state under regulation. The ship- 

 ment of cornstalks and ears to uninfested territory is prohibited 

 and inspection and certification of clean shelled corn required. 



