PROCEEDINGS OF THE CLUB 

 Meeting of January 15, 1936 



The meeting was called to order at the New \'ork Botanical 

 Garden at 3:45 P.M. by Dr. H. A. Gleason, with 42 members 

 present. The minutes of the annual meeting of January 7 were 

 read and approved. 



Miss Anna May Callan, 37 Washington Square, New York 

 City, was unanimously elected to membership. The resigna- 

 tions of Miss Norine Boetsch of 29 Bronx River Road, New 

 York City, and Mr. D. S. Carpenter, Middletown Springs, Vt., 

 were accepted with regret. 



Dr. J. K. Small of the New York Botanical Garden was 

 unable to address the Club because of illness, but Dr. E. J. 

 Ale.xander, Curator of the Local Herbarium of the Garden, gave 

 an interesting and stimulating talk on the "Phytogeographical 

 Regions Around New York." This address brought out clearly 

 the lack of specimens in our herbarium from the Highlands of 

 the Hudson River, Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania, and the 

 foothills of the Berkshire Mountains in Connecticut, and stim- 

 ulated considerable discussion about the overlapping of phyto- 

 geographical areas and the need of more extended field trips 

 into the less known regions to supplement our herbarium. 



John S. Karling 



Secretary 



Minutes of Meeting, February 4, 1936 



The meeting was called to order at the Museum of Natural 

 History by Dr. M. A. Howe at 8:25 P.M. with 55 members 

 present. The minutes of the previous meeting were read and 

 adopted. 



Mr. Rodney B. Miller, 46 Second Avenue, Newark, N. J., 

 and Mr. Arthur B. Hillegas, 106 Morningside Drive, New York 

 City, were unanimously elected to membership. Dr. Erwin H. 

 Eames, 540 State Street, Bridgeport, Conn., who has been a 

 faithful and worthy member of the Club for forty years, w^as 

 elected to honorary life membership. Following the election of 

 members, Dr. Alfred Gunderson, of Brooklyn Botanic Garden, 

 gave a stimulating address on "The Structure and Evolution 



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