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cribed by the older authors as encased in cellulose sheaths. 

 These phenomena are interpreted rather as degeneration of 

 hyphae, than as indicating a host-parasite reaction, but it is 

 hoped that a study of mycelium after it has reached the cells 

 of the growing point will give further information on this 

 point. 



Arthur H. Graves 

 Secretary 



ACT OF INCORPORATION 

 OF THE TORREY BOTANICAL CLUB 



An act to incorporate the New York Botanical Club. Passed April 21, 

 1871. 



The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, 

 do enact as follows : 



Section 1. T. F. Allen, C. F. Austin, William Bower, Isaac Buchanan, 

 F. J. Bumstead, W. DeF. Day, John Darby, Herbert Denslow, D. C. Eaton, 

 W. L. Fischer, W. H. Forman, Charles B. Gerard, O. R. Gross, J. H. Hall, 

 James Hogg, James Hyatt, William H. Leggett, Peter V. LeRoy, James S. 

 Merriam, William M. Tweed, Jr., O. W. Morris, O. H. Perry, F. A. Pollard, 

 J. H. Redfield, M. Ruger, F. A. Rockwith, John Torrey, George Thurber, 

 James W. Ward, Cornelius Corson and G. W. Wilbur, members of the New 

 York Botanical Club, instituted in the city of New York, and such other 

 persons as now are or may hereafter become members of the said club, shall 

 be, and hereby are constituted a body politic and corporate, in fact and in 

 name, by the name of "the New York Botanical Club," and by that name 

 shall have perpetual succession, and be, in law, capable of sueing and being 

 sued, defending and being defended, in all courts and places, and in manner 

 of actions and cases whatsoever, and may have a common seal and change 

 the same at their pleasure, and by that name be capable in law of purchasing, 

 receiving, holding, leasing, conveying or otherwise disposing of an^' estate, 

 real and personal, provided the real estate so held shall not exceed in value 

 fifty thousand dollars in the whole, nor the income of the real and personal 

 estate exceed ten thousand dollars a year. 



§2. The said club shall from time to time, forever hereafter, have power 

 to make, constitute, ordain and establish such by-laws and regulations as 

 they shall judge proper for prescribing the officers of the said club, and their 

 respective functions and the mode of discharging the same; for the election of 

 those officers; for the admission of new members; for the government of the 

 officers and members thereof; for collecting annual contributions toward the 

 fund thereof; for regulating the times and places of meeting of the said club; 

 for suspending or expelling such members as shall neglect or refuse to comply 

 with the by-laws or regulations, and generally for the managing and directing 

 the affairs and concerns of the said club ; provided such by-laws and regulations 

 be not repugnant to the constitution and laws of this State or of the United 

 States. 



