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or not the plant had the yellows. Since the peach yellows may 

 also occur on one or more species of herbs which would be easier 

 to work with experimentally, it was suggested that careful com- 

 parative surveys be made of the vicinity of peach orchards 

 affected with the yellows in order to see if the disease is not also 

 present on one or more herbaceous plants as well as on the peach 

 itself. 



Respectfully submitted, 



Arthur H. Graves, 



Secretary. 



Meeting of February 29, 1928 



This meeting was held in the Museum Building of the New 

 York Botanical Garden, being called to order at 3:30 p.m. with 

 President Denslow in the chair. The following candidates were 

 unanimously elected to membership in the Club: 



Mr. H. M. Romanofif, 360 Lenox Ave., N. Y. C. 



Prof. J. J. Thornber, Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona. 



The President spoke of the death of Professor E. S. Burgess, 

 one of the former presidents of the Club. Dr. Howe then read 

 the following minute on his life and work, at the conclusion of 

 which the members of the Club rose in token of respect. 



Professor Edward Sandford Burgess 



The Torrey Botanical Club records its sense of loss in the 

 death of Professor Edward Sandford Burgess, which occurred on 

 February 23, 1928. 



Doctor Burgess was elected a member of the Torrey Botanical 

 Club on April 9, 1895, before his removal from Washington to 

 New York in that year to become Professor of Natural Science in 

 what is now Hunter College. At the beginning of 1897, he was 

 elected Recording Secretary of the Club, a post that he held for 

 six years. The proceedings of the Club, as recorded by him 

 during those years, are models of scientific accuracy, wealth of 

 detail, and beauty of English diction. His two principal botan- 

 ical publications, the scholarly "History of Pre-Clusian Botany 

 in its Relation to Aster" and "Species and Variations of Biotian 

 Asters; with Discussion of Variability in Aster" constitute 

 volumes 10 and 13 of the Memoirs of the Torrey Botanical Club. 

 Among his other botanical writings, his contributions to Britton 

 and Brown's Illustrated Flora, to Small's Flora of the South- 

 eastern United States, and to the Century Dictionary, are 



