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Mr. Louis Lindstrom, 530 West 159th St. New York, N. Y. 



Miss Clara Raska, 21-14 149th St. Whitestone, N. Y. 



Mr William T. Davis presented a brief communication re- 

 garding a hybrid oak found by him last June at Westerleigh, 

 Staten Island. This paper is printed in full in this number of 

 Torreya. 



Dr. Forman T. McLean addressed the Club on "Gladiolus 

 and its Development from the Wild" showing about 100 

 beautifully colored slides and some autochrome plates. Dr. 

 McLean spoke of the natural distribution of the wild species of 

 gladiolus and traced the development of the garden forms 

 up to the present time, beginning with the first Gandavensis 

 hybrids of about 1840. His paper is published in full in this 

 number of torreya. 



Arthur H. Graves 



Secretary 



Meeting of December 4, 1928 



The meeting was held at the American Museum of Natural 

 History, and was called to order by Vice-President Hazen 

 at 8:20 p.m. The following candidates were unanimously elect- 

 ed to membership: 



Miss Fannie Asherowitz, 35 Osborn St., Brooklyn, N. Y. 

 Mr. Don O. Baird, 509 West 121 St., New York, N. Y. 

 Miss Rachel Beam, 540 Ocean Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y. 

 Miss Agnes W. Benedix, 3166 Webster Ave., New York, 



N. Y. 

 Mr. William Birrell, 60 East 94th St., New York, N. Y. 

 Miss Nancy Brenner, 635 West 169th St., New York, N.Y. 

 Miss Belle H. Burr, Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Brooklyn, 



New York. 

 Dr. R. H. Colley, 36 Argyl Place, Rockville Center, New 



York. 

 Mr. J. Joseph Copeland, Biology Department, College 



of N. Y. C, Convent Ave. & 139th St., New York, N. Y. 

 Miss Dorothy Francis, Biophysics Laboratory, Memorial 



Hospital, 2 West 106th St., New York, N. Y. 

 Miss Meriam Glassman, 1265 Walton Ave., Bronx, N. Y, 

 Mr. Oscar Goldin, 21 East 110th St., New York, N. Y. 



