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Mr. Leland S. Smith, Nevada City, California. 

 Mr. Wm. H. Zaun, 22 Queen Esther Court, Ridgefield Pk., N.J. 

 Dr. Barnhart, Chairman of the Budget Committee, submitted 

 the following estimates for 1927 : 



Estimated Income 



Estimated 



Outgo 



Membership dues 



$1,525.00 



Bulletin 



$2,000.00 



Bulletin 



1,100.00 



Editor (Bull.) 



100.00 



Torreya 



150.00 



Torreya 



500.00 



Memoirs 



50.00 



Index cards 



600.00 



Index cards 



800.00 



Treasurer 



150.00 



Interest 



170.00 



Bibliographer 



175.00 



Advertisements 



100.00 



Sundries 



125.00 





$3,895.00 



$3,650.00 







Bulletin and 









Memoirs (from 









surplus) 



600.00 



$4,250.00 



As delegate for 1926 from the Club to the Council of the N. Y. 

 Academy of Sciences, Dr. Barnhart reported that he had rep- 

 resented the Club as usual at the meetings of the Council. 



Progress reports were made by the Secretary in the matters of 

 proposed affiliation with the A. A. A. S. and of the revision of the 

 Constitution. 



For the scientific part of the program Dr. Bessie Goldstein of 

 Columbia University gave a paper on "The X-bodies associated 

 with the mosaic disease of tobacco and dahlia." Her abstract 

 follows : 



"Intracellular bodies have been found associated with a great 

 many of the filterable virus diseases of animals and plants. 

 Among the animal virus diseases, there are the Guarnieri bodies 

 associated with smallpox, the Negri bodies in rabies, the in- 

 tranuclear bodies in herpes, the intracellular bodies in trachoma, 

 hoof and mouth disease of cattle, etc. Among plants, such in- 

 tracellular bodies are described as associated with the mosaic 

 disease of corn, sugar cane, Fiji disease of sugar cane, mosaic 

 disease of tobacco, apple of Sodom, and dahlia, wheat rosette, 

 Hippeastrum mosaic, etc. 



