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The secretary reported with regret the deaths of three mem- 

 bers: 



Dr. W. E. Wheelock, of N. Y. City, who died on February 3rd; 

 Dr. George N. Best, of Rosemont, N. J., June 18; and Dr. C. 

 D. Fretz, of Sellersville, Pennsylvania, August 17. 



The Secretary, as delegate for the Torrey Club to the Inter- 

 national Congress of Plant Sciences at Ithaca, August 9-14, 

 1926, made a brief general report on the meeting. 



Of those who spoke on their experiences and work of the 

 summer, Dr. Harper remarked upon the study of elaioplasts 

 going forward in his laboratory. An effort is being made to 

 ascertain if these structures may not arise in the cell de novo. 

 It has been generally believed that living structures in the cell 

 must arise by division, and so if elaioplasts can be found to 

 arise de novo, the discovery will have large significance. Miss 

 Nicholson reported on the interesting Forestry Exhibit at the 

 Sesquicentennial Exhibition. The Wild Flower Preservation 

 Society also had an attractive booth, lists of those plants which 

 should be conserved, and those which may be picked, having a 

 prominent place. 



In the town of Tally, New York, visited this year by Mr. 

 Hastings, he found six patches of the rare Asplenium angusti- 

 folium. Formerly there was only a single patch. The Walking 

 Leaf Fern is still found on the same ledge where it has been 

 growing for many years, but other rare ferns, as well as the 

 Purple Fringed Orchis, have disappeared from places where 

 they formerly grew. Elodea, in Tully Lake, increased in 

 abundance for many years, but has now gone back to its former 

 condition of comparative scarcity. Dr. Hazen reported that 

 both Cabomba caroliniana and the long leaved species of Elodea 

 are now found in Van Cortlandt Park, perhaps planted there by 

 some one interested in the culture of water plants. Mr. Hein 

 remarked that this is a very good year for powdery mildews. 

 Dr. Richards spoke of the great success of the Sterility Conference 

 in N. Y., August 13 and 14. This, the 4th conference, was held 

 under the auspices of the Horticultural Society of N. Y. The 

 proceedings will be published. 



Arthur H. Graves, 

 Secretary. 



