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especialK' well known. l)iirin^ ilu- Nc-ar^ k^ij and i<>i,v 

 Professor Burgess served abU' as the CMiih's president, and was, 

 ex officio, a member of the l)oard of ScieiUific Directors of the 

 New \'ork Botanical (iarden. 



In the passing of Professor Burgess, members of the Torrey 

 Botanical C'lub mourn the loss of a wideK' known scientist, a 

 successful teacher of botain', and a cultured Christian gentleman. 



The Secretary announced the sad death, from pneumonia, of 

 Dr. C. H. Farr, which occurred suddenly on Saturday, February 

 II. Dr. Farr was Associate Professor of Botany at Washington 

 University, St. Louis, and had been a member of the Club since 

 1914. He received his doctor's degree from Columbia in 1916. 



The Secretary presented the report of the Committee com- 

 posed of the officers of the Club, to suggest a method of election 

 of delegates and representatives of the Club to organizations 

 with which the Club is affiliated, as follows: 



"Delegates and representatives on the councils of the New 

 York Academy of Sciences and the American Association for the 

 Advancement of Science, and other organizations with which 

 the Club is now or shall become affiliated, shall be elected at 

 the Annual Meeting in January, the numbers of such delegates 

 and representatives to be elected, depending on the quota regu- 

 lations of such organizations." 



It was the sense of the meeting that this proposition, after 

 being presented and voted upon according to the regular routine, 

 be incorporated as an article of the Constitution. 



In regard to the conflict of the meetings at the American 

 Museum on the second Tuesday of the month, with those of the 

 Linnean Society on the same date, the Secretary reported the 

 following proposition of the committee composed of the officers 

 of the Club: 



"Unless otherwise determined by the Club, the regular meet- 

 ings shall be held on the first Tuesday and the third Wednesday 

 of each month from October to May inclusive, except the third 

 Wednesday of December, at such hour and place as the Club 

 may direct." 



It was voted by the Club that Article XVIII of the Consti- 

 tution of the Club entitled "Meetings" be amended by the 

 omission of the part relating to the regular meetings and that 

 this article, worded according to the report of the committee 

 here presented, be framed as a by-law. 



