Mff.tint. ok Apkii. 10, 1028 



This meeting was held at the Aincriran Miiseiiiii of Natural 

 Histor>', being called to order at 8:25 i'.m. I)\- \'ire President 

 Hazen. By unanimous vote, Mr. Hans W'ilkens, 241 South 

 11th Street, Reading, Penns\l\ania, was elected to membership 

 in the Club. 



By \ote of the Club, according to a recommendation of 

 the Finance C ommittee, Mrs Trelease was authorized to sell 

 the Third U. S. Liberty Loan bond of SI 000, owned by the 

 Club, and deposit the proceeds in the Central Savings Bank, 

 14th Street and 4th A\enue, New ^'ork City. 



The scientific part of the program consisted of an illus- 

 trated lecture by Dr. A. B. Stout, entitled "Dichogamy in 

 Flowering Plants." For an account of this subject, reference 

 may be made to Dr. Stout's recent paper, which appeared 

 in the Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club for March, 1928, 

 pp. 141-153. 



Arthur H. Graves. 



Secretary. 



NEWS NOTES 



Dr. Fred J. Seaver will issue this year a monograph on the 

 North American Cup-fungi (Operculates). It will be a book 

 of 250-300 pages wnth colored plates and text figures. It will 

 be the only American monograph of this group of fungi and 

 will be based on over twenty-five years of study. The volume 

 is being published at the expense of the author and the edition 

 will be a limited one. Orders may be placed now with the 

 author at the New York Botanical Garden, Bronx Park, 

 New York. 



After nine months absence on a "Quest for grass," L. W. 

 Kephart and R. L. Piemeisel, plant explorers of the U. S. De- 

 partment of Agriculture, have just returned from Africa with 

 more than 160 lots of seed of grasses and forage plants 

 and 400 specim.ens of other plant life. The two grass hunters 

 tramped more than 300 miles through the highlands of Kenya 



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