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Discussion followedjthe remarks of each speaker. 

 The Club adjourned at 9:45. 



C. Stuart Gagek, 



Secretary. 



NEWS ITEMS 



Dr. John Hendley Barnhart has been appointed Hbrarian of 

 the New York Botanical Garden, succeeding Miss Anna Murray 

 Vail, who has felt obliged to give up the position on account of 

 ill health. 



Dr. Raymond H. Pond, who has been studying during the 

 past year at the New York Botanical Garden, sailed for Europe 

 on November 7 with the intention of spending several months in 

 visiting German botanical laboratories. 



Dr. William A. Murrill, first assistant of the staff of the New 

 York Botanical Garden, visited the Biltmore Forest School, at 

 Biltmore, North Carolina, in October, where he secured collec- 

 tions of Polyporaceae and made some observations on diseases 

 of trees. 



In the series of non-technical lectures at Columbia University, 

 descriptive of the achievements of science and modern scholar- 

 ship, recently inaugurated for the academic year 1907—08, the 

 science of botany will be represented by Professor Herbert M. 

 Richards, whose lecture will be given at 4:10 p. m., December 4, 

 at Havemeyer Hall. 



The botanical exploration of the Bahama Islands by the New 

 York Botanical Garden and the Field Museum of Natural His- 

 tory is being continued by an expedition which left New York 

 on November 15. The party, consisting of Dr. Marshall A. 

 Howe and Mr. Percy Wilson, expects to visit some of the 

 southeastern islands of the archipelago. 



Dr. P2zra Brainerd, who is well known to botanists by reason 

 of his notable studies of the species of Viola and by his additions 

 to the knowledge of the flora of Vermont, has resigned the presi- 

 dency of Middlebury College, to take effect at the end of the 

 present academic year, when he will have completed forty-four 

 years of service as an officer of that institution, during twenty- 

 three years of which he will have been its president. 



