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Thirty-nine field meetings were held with an average attendance 

 of 10 persons per meeting. 



By unanimous vote of the Club, all officers were reelected for 

 the ensuing year with the exception of Dr. Howe, Delegate to the 

 Council of the New York Academy of Sciences, since Dr. Howe is 

 now a member of the Council in the Academy. Dr. Barnhart 

 was elected in his place. 



Dr. Howe recommended that, as in the past, the records of the 

 Club be carefully preserved and bound together for each year. 



Arthur H. Graves, 



Secretary. 



Meeting of January 27, 1926 



This meeting was held at the Museum Building of the N. Y. 

 Botanical Garden. The minutes of the meeting of January 12 

 were read and approved. 



Mr. Solomon Kenner, 30 Osborn St., Brooklyn, N. Y., was / 

 elected to membership. The following resignations were ac- / 

 cepted: Dr. N. E. Stevens, Mr. Augustus O. Bourn, Jr., Mrs. 

 Paula Milton, Mrs. Reginald Hunter Colley, Dr. M. A. Raines, 

 Mrs. Louis B. Fairbanks. 



The Secretary spoke of the sudden death of Dr. Tower the day 

 before. Although not a member. Dr. Tower, Secretary of the 

 N. Y. Academy of Sciences, had long been in close touch with 

 the affairs of the Club and had always manifested a splendid 

 spirit of cooperation. 



The death of Mr. C. H. Bissell of Southington, Conn., in April, 

 1925, was also read into the minutes. Mr. Bissell was well 

 known for his work on ferns and also as a collaborator in prep- 

 aration of the Catalog of the Ferns and Flowering plants of 

 Connecticut, published in 1910. 



Dr. Barnhart, Chairman of the Budget Committee offered 

 the following estimates for 1926: 



Estimated Income 





Estimated Outgo 





Membership 



dues 



$1500.00 



Bulletin 



I2000.00 



Bulletin 





1000.00 



Editor (Bulletin) 



100.00 



Torre y a 





150.00 



Torreya 



500.00 



Memoirs 





100.00 



Index Cards 



600.00 



Index Cards 





650.00 



Treasurer 



150.00 



