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Brooklyn Botanic Garden 



College of Pharmacy, Columbia I'niversity 



Department of Botany, Columbia University 



Fordham University 



Hunter College 



New York Botanical Garden 



New York liniversity 



Rutgers l'ni\ersit\' 



Station for Experimental Evolution, Cold Spring Harbor 



Dr. Denslow opened the meeting with a few words of wel- 

 come to the botanists who have recently come into the Metro- 

 politan area. The guests of honor were requested to rise, a 

 formality which was carried out to the accompaniment of 

 vigorous applause. Dr. Denslow spoke briefly on the pleasant 

 quality of sociability which characterizes not only botanists, 

 but those in general who are interested in natural sciences. 



The first meeting of the fall season is customarily devoted 

 to reports of experiences and the presentation of items of 

 botanical interest connected with the past summer. Speaking 

 along this line, Dr. Harper showed plants sent in by Dr. H. 

 M. Hall of the Carnegie institution. Dr. Hall, by experimental 

 work is seeking, particularly by the growing of different species 

 from seed, to bring out the relationship of the various species, 

 and thus to make clear the evolutionary lines of descent in a 

 given genus. 



Mr. Torre}- gave a brief outline of some of the field trips 

 of the season and remarked on the evident increase of the 

 Trailing Arbutus as shown by the fact that it was found growing 

 on old wood-roads. Dr. J. S. Karling spoke of his recent trip 

 to British Honduras to study the methods of obtaining chicle 

 gum from the Sapodilla tree {Achras Sapota). The gum is 

 obtained by bleeding the trees and this, as well as its method 

 of preparation and shipment, is very similar to that in vogue 

 for rubber. 



The meeting was then adjourned, and an informal reception 

 in the laboratories followed, refreshments being served by the 

 Department of Botan\-, Columbia University. 



Arthur H. Graves 

 Secretary 



