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Meeting of February 23, 1927 



This meeting was held at the Museum Building of the New 

 York Botanical Garden, and was called to order at 3:30 p. m. 

 with Dr. Barnhart as Chairman. 



Dr. Susan P. Nichols of Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio, was 

 unanimously elected to membership in the club. The resigna- 

 tion of Mr. Edward D. Lehrer of Brooklyn was accepted. 



A report on the revision of the constitution was presented by 

 Mr. B. R. Abbott. 



As a result of this report the following committee was ap- 

 pointed by vote of the Club to carry through the matter of re- 

 vision of the constitution in accordance with the findings of this 

 report, said committee to report at the next Wednesday meeting 

 of the Club: Dr. M. A. Howe, Dr. J. H. Barnhart, Mr. B. R. 

 Abbott, Dr. Arthur H. Graves. 



The scientific part of the program consisted of an address by 

 Dr. Alfred Gundersen entitled "A visit to European Botanic 

 Gardens." 



After some weeks in the mountains of Norway, Dr. Gundersen 

 visited eighteen botanical institutions in Scandinavia, Germany, 

 Switzerland, France and England. The botanic garden of Oslo 

 was founded a little more than a century ago; it contains many 

 large trees with a considerable range of species. In the Copen- 

 hagen garden, covering about thirty acres in the city, much 

 attention is given to systematic botany. A special section is de- 

 voted to the Danish Flora. The forest school garden at Charlot- 

 tenburg, north of Copenhagen, is notable for its fine collection of 

 evergreens. The Berlin garden was moved about twenty years 

 ago to its present location in Dahlem. Here, numerous artificial 

 mountains, developed as rock gardens, show the vegetation of 

 different geographical regions. About sixty regions are repre- 

 sented. Another large area is devoted to the arboretum, and a 

 third to the "Systematic Section," containing herbaceous plants 

 only. The Munich collections were very impressive, expecially 

 those of the conservatories. While a few other gardens had 

 larger collections, none exceeded this one in the matter of artistic 

 effects and beautiful arrangement. One large house was devoted 

 to water plants. There was also a considerable collection of 

 named liverworts. The gardens of Zurich, Berne and Lausanne 



