PROCEEDINGS OF THE CLUB 



Meeting of March 20, 1929 



This meeting- was held at the ^Museum Building of The New 

 York Botanical Garden. The meeting was called to order by 

 President Denslow at 3 :30 p.m. 



Dr. Graves spoke of a proposed amendment to Subdivision 2 

 of Section 1425 of the Penal Law of the State of New York, which 

 will add the small and large yellow lady's slippers, the showy 

 lady's slipper, and the fringed and closed gentians and ferns to the 

 list of plants to be protected in New York State ; also the hart's 

 tongue fern to be protected in Onondaga or Madison Counties. 

 Members were urged to write to their senators to vote for the 

 passage of this bill, and on the motion of Dr. Graves the club 

 voted that the matter of notification of the members about this 

 pending bill be left in the hands of the secretary. 



"Notes on some New Marine Algae from Brazil" was the title 

 of a paper by Dr. Marshall A. Howe of the New York Botanical 

 Garden and Professor William Randolph Taylor of the University 

 of Pennsylvania, presented by Doctor Howe in the absence of 

 Professor Taylor. The algae in question were obtained by dredg- 

 ing off the coast of Brazil, mainly near Cabo Frio, in 1872, by 

 the so-called Hassler Expedition. The Hassler was the name of a 

 steamship belonging to the Coast Survey of the United States. 

 Professor Louis Agassiz of Harvard University was invited to 

 accompany the Hassler on a voyage from Boston to San Francisco 

 by way of the Straits of Magellan. From his friends in Boston, he 

 raised a fund of $20,000 for defraying the expenses of zoological 

 collections on this voyage and organized a small party, one of whom 

 was the Count Pourtales, who had charge of the dredging opera- 

 tions. Dr. Thomas Hill, ex-president of Harvard University, was in 

 charge of the chemical and physical work of the expedition and 

 Agassiz's report states that "Dr. Hill made, also, a most valuable 

 and admirably preserved collection of marine plants, gathered at 

 every anchorage where time was allowed for landing." Some of 

 the marine algae of the Hassler Expedition apparently unstudied 

 hitherto, have recently been entrusted to Professor Taylor for 

 naming, in which study Dr. Howe was invited to cooperate. Several 



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