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PROCEKDINGS OF THE CLUB 

 January 26, 19 10 



The Club met at the Museum of the New York Botanical 

 Garden at 3:30 p. m., with Vice-president Barnhart in the chair. 

 Twenty-five persons were present. After the reading and ap- 

 proval of the minutes of January 1 1, the resignation of Dr. Cyrus 

 A. King, 661 Flatbush Ave., Brooklyn was read and accepted. 



The chairman of the field committee reported that 25 meet- 

 ings were advertised during the season, of which 23 were held. 

 The total attendance at these meetings for the year was 92. 



The expenses incurred by the committee for printing and mail- 

 ing the circulars has been considerable, and it was suggested that 

 future notices which cannot be printed in the Academy Bulletin 

 be printed in Torreya. 



Collections made for the Club herbarium aggregrated during 

 the season 2,400 specimens ; 1,750 of which were collected by the 

 committee and about 500 specimens were secured by Mr. G. V. 

 Nash in northwestern New Jersey and adjacent Pennsylvania. 

 Material has been received also from other members. 



The following committees of the Torrey Botanical Club were 

 appointed by the president for the year 1910 : 



Finance Committee : Eugene P. Bicknell (chairman) and H. M. 

 Richards. 



Committee on Admission : J. K. Small (chairman), G. V. Nash, 

 and C. C. Curtis. 



Program Committee : Fred J. Seaver (chairman), Tracy E. 

 Hazen, Jean Broadhurst, Charles L. Pollard, and E. G. Britton. 



Field Committee : Norman Taylor (chairman), E, B. Southwick, 

 and Wm. Mansfield. 



Committee on Local Flora : N. L. Britton, chairman ; Phaner- 

 ogams — N. L. Britton, C. C. Curtis, Eugene P. Bicknell, K. K. 

 Mackenzie, E. S. Burgess, and E. L. Morris; Cryptogams — 

 Wm. A. Murrill, E. G. Britton, Tracy E. Hazen, M. A. Howe, 

 and Philip Dowell. 



Committee to consider the subject of revision of the by-laws : 

 Edward S. Burgess, John Hendley Barnhart, Percy Wilson, 



