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baria throughout Europe and exhibited numerous specimens 



which were collected in different countries. 



J. S. Kari.ing 

 Secretary 



Meeting of January 5, 1937 



The meeting was called to order at 8:25 p.m. at the Faculty 

 Club of Columbia University following the Annual Dinner, by 

 \'ice-President F. E. Denny, with 59 members and guests pres- 

 ent. Misses Clyde Chandler and Lela Barton and Drs. W. G. 

 Camp and R. Pratt were appointed by the Chair to count the 

 ballots for officers for 1937. The minutes of the meeting of De- 

 cember 16 were then read and adopted. 



Miss Agnes Sullivan, 191-12 Hollis Ave., Hollis, L. I., was 

 elected to membership, and Misses Rhona E. Lawrence and 

 Ann M. Wyckoff and Mr. J. Landon Rhodda were approved 

 as Associates. 



The resignations of Dr. Wm. Marquette, Dr. Bessie Gold- 

 stein, Mrs. Lucy Abbe, Miss Mary Jo Cobb, Mrs. Dorothy 

 Francis Allen, Miss Matilde Otero, Miss Fanny A. Mulford, 

 and Mr. B. A. Krukoff as Active Members, and Miss Mabel E. 

 Newman and Mr. Benjamin Wunder as Associates were ac- 

 cepted with regret. 



The annual reports of the Secretary, Treasurer, Editor, As- 

 sociate Editor for Torreya, Business Manager, Bibliographer, 

 Delegate to the New York Academy of Sciences, and the Chair- 

 man of the Field Committee were read and adopted. 



Under the heading of old business the Secretary again 

 pointed out that there was no provision in the Constitution 

 of the Club for the Office of Business Manager although this 

 officer had been elected annually since 1919, and urged that 

 some action be taken to bring the Constitution in line with our 

 practice. After some discussion, a motion was introduced by Dr. 

 R. A. Harper that the same committee which drew up the 

 amendments relative to the Offices of Corresponding and Re- 

 cording Secretary be appointed to take action on this matter. 

 The motion was unanimously carried. 



The Secretary then read a letter from Dr. C. Stuart Gager, 

 Director of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, urging some con- 



