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The total area of these islands is perhaps about one hundred 

 and fifty square miles. Those that have been explored have 

 yielded between five and six hundred species of native flowering 

 plants, surely a very large number considering the fact that 

 the solid rock is exposed everywhere and that soil in the ordi- 

 nary sense of the word does not occur there. The close relation- 

 ship of this flora to that of the West Indies is now established 

 by the fact that considerably more than one half of the species 

 found on the islands south of Miami are also native in Cuba and 

 the Bahamas. 



Since the publication of Dr. Small's last report on exploration 

 in southern Florida, and a subsequently printed paper on the 

 species added to the flora of that state, he has secured over fifty 

 more species not before known to grow on the North American 

 mainland. Eight or ten of these are complete novelties, inas- 

 much as they are not yet described. Noteworthy among the 

 recent collections, which make an aggregate of 3,200 specimens, 

 are seven specimens not previously included in the tree flora of 

 the United States. 



After an interesting discussion of Dr. Small's paper the Club 

 adjourned at five o'clock. C. Stuart Gager, 



Secretary. 

 Marcft 12, 1907 



The Club met at the American Museum of Natural History 

 at 8:15 p. M., with President Rusby in the chair. Ten persons 

 were present. 



The reading and approval of the minutes for February 27, 

 1907, was followed by the presentation of the name of Mrs. Samuel 

 Weiss, Depot Lane, Washington Heights, N. Y. City, for mem- 

 bership. 



The resignation of Mr. H. M. Stephens was read and accepted. 

 On motion the secretary cast the ballot of the Club electing 

 Mrs. Weiss to membership. 



The following scientific program was presented : 



" Remarks on Regeneration," by Miss Elsie M. Kupfer. 



The various meanings which have been assigned to the word 

 regeneration were first discussed. It was brought out that, while 



