J^ROCEEDINGS OF THE CLUB 



Meeting of Fef^ruarv 5, 1929 



This meeting was held at the American Museum of Natural 

 History with forty three members present. President Denslow 

 called the meeting to order at 8 P. M. 



The following new members were elected : 



Mr. Edmund H. Fulling, 205 White Plains Road.Tucka- 

 hoe, New York; Dr. E. E. Dale, Hunter College, 145 East 

 32nd Street, New York City; Miss Rebecca Feinberg, 1225 

 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, New York; Mrs. Wm. Gavin Tay- 

 lor, The Beechmont, Arlington, New Jersey; Miss Ruth M. 

 Patrick, Coker College, Hartsville, South Carolina. 



Mr. Austin F. Hawes, State Forester of Connecticut gave 

 an illustrated lecture on "Our National Parks and Forests," 

 telling of the purposes of each, their management, and their 

 great recreational advantages as well as their importance in 

 the conservation of wild life. This was admirably illustrated by 

 a large number of lantern slides. 



After the lecture, the meeting was adjourned to refresh- 

 ments of coffee and cake, provided by the entertainment 

 committee, served in the hall of fiying birds of the Museum, 

 by Mrs. G. T. Hastings. 



FoRMAN T. McLean, Secretary 



Meeting of February 20 



This meeting was held at The New York Botanical Garden 

 with sixteen members present. Minutes of the meetings of 

 January 16th, and of February 5th, were read and approved. 



The following new members were proposed and unani- 

 mously elected : 



Mr. Albert C. Smith, Mr. George E. Brownell, Mr. J. H. 

 Parker, and Miss Dora Elpern. 



The resignations of Mr. Abraham Schur and Miss Mary 

 E. Wood were accepted with regret. 



Mrs Wanda K. Farr of the Boyce Thompson Institute 

 spoke on "Studies on the Growth of Root Hairs in Solutions." 



The choice of experimental material for studies in cell- 

 enlargement is not at all simple. An aquatic form in which 



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