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for the Club, as proposed by Dr. Gundersen, the following 

 committee was appointed to consider the question : Dr. Denslow, 

 Dr. Gundersen, Mr. Torrey, Mrs. Mitchell and Mr. Beals. 



It was also voted that it was the sense of the meeting that 

 the term of the presidency of the Club be limited so that the 

 same person may not hold the office for more than two suc- 

 cessive years. 



The officers for 1928 were then unanimously elected. The 

 list of officers appears on the inside of the front cover of this issue 

 of Torreya. 



Respectfully submitted, 



Arthur H. Graves, 



Secretary. 



Meeting of February 14, 1928 



This meeting was held at the American Museum of Natural 

 History and was called to order at 8:25 p.m. by President 

 Denslow. The following candidates for membership were un- 

 animously elected : 



Mr. Clement Gray Bowers, 3225 Bainbridge Avenue, Bronx, 

 New York. 



Mr. Richard Hafif, 179 Valentine Avenue, Yonkers, N. Y. 



Mrs. Leonard Irving, 29th Street, Whitestone, N. Y. 



Mr. C. Victor Jordan, 144-26, 87th Road, Jamaica, N. Y. 



Prof. Burton E. Livingston, Laboratory of Plant Physiology, 

 Johns Hopkins University, Homewood, Baltimore, Maryland. 



Mr. Victor Schechter, 482 West 150 Street, N. Y. C. 



Mr. Erdman West, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida. 



Miss Sara Whitlock, 88 Lawrence Ave., New Brunswick, New 

 Jersey. 



The resignation of Mr, H. S. Piatt was accepted with regret. 

 The scientific program of the evening consisted of an Illustrated 

 lecture by Dr. L. O. Kunkel entitled. Further Researches in 

 Yellows Diseases. Slides were shown of curly top of beet, yellows 

 of aster and Sonchus, spike disease of sandal, yellows of fall 

 dandelion {Leontodon autumnale) and yellow daisy {Rudbeckia 

 hirta) and others. The flowers of Rudbeckia hirta, when affected 

 with the yellows, have a green color. The speaker stated that 

 aster yellows has been transmitted experimentally to more than 



