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PROCEEDINGS OF THE CLUB 



March 8, 1910 



The meeting was held at the American Museum of Natural 

 History, beginning at 8.15 p. m. Mr. Charles Louis Pollard 

 acted as temporary chairman, giving way soon to Vice-president 

 Barnhart. Forty persons were present. 



The minutes of the meeting of February 23 were read and ap- 

 proved. 



The committee appointed to consider ways and rneans of in- 

 creasing the influence and efficiency of the Club presented a 

 report, which was read by its chairman. Miss Jean Broadhurst. 



An application from Professor J. C. Arthur of Purdue Univer- 

 sity, Lafayette, Indiana, for a grant of $200 from the Esther 

 Herrman Fund of the New York Academy of Sciences to further 

 his researches upon the Uredinales was read and was ordered to 

 be forwarded to the Council of the Academy with the endorsement 

 of the Club. 



The editor asked permission to publish as one of the Club's 

 Memoirs a paper by Mr. O. Butler of Cornell University, entitled 

 *' Observations on the California vine disease ". It was voted to 

 refer the matter to the editorial board with power to act. 



The secretary called the attention of members of the Club to 

 a communication from Rev. L. H. Lighthipe, offering for sale 

 back volumes of the Bulletin, Memoirs, and Torreya. 



The following new members were then elected : Walter C. 

 Cameron, 239 West 136th St., New York City; Rev. H. M. 

 Denslow, D.D., 2 Chelsea Square, New York City; Bernard O. 

 Dodge, 528 West 123d St., New York City; Carl A. Schwarze, 

 92 Stagg St., Brooklyn, N. Y.; and Sereno Stetson, 507 West 

 1 13th St., New York City. 



The announced scientific program consisted of a lecture by Dr. 

 Mel T. Cook on " Cuba : The People and Country". 



The lecture was of a popular character and was illustrated by 

 numerous lantern-slides. The speaker first showed views of the 

 city of Havana, of its parks with their luxuriant tropical vege- 

 tation, and of the old fortifications which are being over-run by 



