Meeting of March 28, 1928 



This meeting was held at the Laboratory Building of the 

 Brooklyn Botanic Garden, with Vice-President Gager in the 

 chair. The meeting was called to order at 3:45 p.m. The 

 minutes of the meetings of February 29 and March 13 were 

 read and approved with the alteration noted below. 



The Secretary remarked on the proposition made at a pre- 

 vious meeting that the words "in uneven years" be omitted 

 from the article regarding the election of delegates and repre- 

 sentatives of the Club to organizations with which it is affili- 

 ated, this article to be voted on at a subsequent meeting. It 

 was voted by the Club that the minutes be altered by the 

 omission of these words. 



Mr. Harold C. Bold, 435 W. 117th St., New York City, 

 was unanimously elected to membership. 



The scientific part of the program consisted of a lecture by 

 Dr. George M. Reed entitled "Physiologic Races and the 

 Inheritance of Resistance in the Cereal Smuts." An abstract 

 of this lecture prepared by Dr. Reed follows: 



"The discovery of physiologic races of smuts greatly compli- 

 cates the problem of breeding for smut-resistant varieties of 

 cereals. Our recent investigations have demonstrated the exis- 

 tence of at least four well-defined races of Tilletia laevis and six 

 of T. Tritici. These races are separated on the basis of their 

 behavior on such wheat varieties as Martin, Odessa, Hussar, 

 Turkey and Kanred. While most varieties of winter wheat 

 grown in the experiments have proved to be very susceptible 

 to practically all the collections of bunt, yet these five varieties 

 have shown a variation in their susceptibility or resistance to 

 the different collections. By their use it has been possible to 

 demonstrate that distinct races of both species of bunt or 

 covered smut of wheat exist. Some of these are especially 

 characterized by their ability to infect Martin, Odessa and 

 Hussar, varieties which hitherto have had a reputation for 

 great resistance to bunt. 



In all of our experiments with loose and covered smut of 

 oats, the varieties Fulghum and Red Rustproof have con- 

 sistently been resistant. This was particularly true when 



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