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Case, 56 Wall St., New York City; Sarah B. Hadley, South 

 Canterbury, Conn.; Mrs. Katherine Winthrop Kean, 25 East 

 37th St., New York City. 



The following amendment to the Constitution, proposed by Dr. 

 J. H. Barnhart at the preceding meeting of the Club, came up for 

 discussion and was unanimously adopted : 



" That Article III of the Constitution be amended by the sub- 

 stitution of the word ' eight ' for the word ' seven,' so as to read, 

 ' associate editors, not to exceed eight in number.' " 



The attention of the Club havmg been called to the fact that 

 Dr. H. H. Rusby, elected at the meeting of December 11, 1906, 

 to represent the Club in the Council of the New York Academy 

 of Sciences, was already a member of the Council, Vice-president 

 L. M. Underwood was elected as the Club's representative on the 

 Council. 



The secretary presented the matter of the Club's record of its 

 membership and on motion the secretary was empowered to pre- 

 pare a card catalogue of the members with pertinent data, to be 

 kept in the custody of the secretary. 



On motion, the secfetary cast the ballot of the Club electing 

 Miss Ruth Price to membership. 



Dr. C. B. Robinson was nominated as associate editor, and on 

 motion the secretary cast the ballot of the Club electing Dr. 

 Robinson. 



Dr. Marshall A. Howe, who had returned on that day from the 

 island of Jamaica, gave an account of his experiences there dur- 

 ing the disastrous earthquake of Januar}^ 14, 1907. 



The announced scientific program was as follows : 



" New or Rare Mosses from Jamaica," by Mrs. N, L. Britton. 



Mrs. Britton exhibited some of the most interesting mosses 

 collected in Jamaica, showing several genera and subgenera not 

 heretofore known in the West Indies, and sev^eral new species, and 

 also indicated reductions of some names to synonymy. There 

 were also shown specimens of types of Jamaican species from the 

 Mitten Herbarium and one of Miss Taylor's drawings of a new 

 species and subgenus. 



"The Probable Function of Tannin in Galls," by Dr. Melville 

 T. Cook. 



