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dent who loves to ramble through the woods and fields in search 

 of natural objects of interest. 



F. J. Seavee 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE CLUB. 



Meetng of March 14, 1922. 



The meeting was held at the American Museum of Natural 

 Histor}^ 



The following were elected to membership: Mrs. Ellis Parker 

 Butler, Flushing, New York, Mr. Edgar Nelson, Flushing, 

 New York Dr. Eda M. Rounds, Providence, R. I., Dr. Charles 

 Vetter, New York City. 



The resignation of Mr. N. A. Lawrence was accepted. 



It was voted to endorse a project to establish a Northeastern 

 Forest Experiment Station and the Secretary was instructed 

 to write letters to Congressmen in support of a bill recently 

 introduced to accomplish this end (S. 783 and H. R. 9689). 



The scientific program consisted of an illustrated talk on 

 "Botanizing in British Guiana" by Dr. H. A. Gleason. Dr. 

 Gleason left New York June 2, 192 1, spent ten weeks in collecting, 

 and returned to New York, September 6. Field work was 

 considerably hampered by the almost incessant rains of the 

 season, but almost a thousand numbers and some four thousand 

 specimens were obtained. Most of these were collected in the 

 dense tropical rain forest along the Essequibo and Potaro 

 rivers, from 75 to 175 miles back from Georgetown, but an 

 interesting series was also secured from the open forest on the 

 white sands lying between the Essequibo and Demerara rivers. 

 The most noteworthy families represented are the Rubiaceae, 

 Melastomataceae, and Leguminosae in the old sense. A few 

 new species have already been found in the collections, and 

 one represents an apparently new genus of the Rapateaceae. 



After discussion, adjournment followed. 



Marshall A. Howe 

 Secretary. 

 Meeting of March 29, 1922 



This meeting was held in the botanical lecture-room of Scher- 

 merhorn Hall, Columbia University. 



Mr. Bayard Long was elected the Club's delegate to the 

 twenty sixth annual meeting of the American Academy of 



