PROCEEDINGS OF THE CLUB 

 Meeting of March 17, 1937 



President Barnhart called the meeting to order at 3:30 p.m. 

 at the New York Botanical Garden. Twenty persons were pres- 

 ent. The minutes of the last two meetings were read and ac- 

 cepted. 



The resignations of Dr. Kingo Miyabe, Hokkaido Imperial 

 University, Sapporo, Japan, and of Dr. Vladimir A. Shternov, 

 New York City, were accepted with regret. The recording secre- 

 tary reported that a letter of resignation had been received from 

 Mr. Arthur Norton, and that Miss Eleanor A. Friend wished 

 to resign from annual membership and apply for associate 

 membership. 



The applications of Mr. Lyman Benson, Mr. Cyril O. Brat- 

 ley, Dr. W. R. Ivimey-Cook, and Mrs. Frank G. Ruggles for 

 annual membership were read. 



In view of the fact that the club has at present no honorary 

 members. Dr. Moldenke proposed that Miss Gulielma Lister of 

 Leytonstone, Sussex, England, be considered for this honor. He 

 stated that Miss Lister is a "member of a family of naturalists 

 and scientists, world renowned as an expert on the Myxomy- 

 cetes. She is the niece of the great Joseph, Lord Lister, and 

 daughter of the famous Arthur Lister. She is one of the last of 

 that fast-disappearing class of all-around naturalists which 

 reached its most splendid culmination in Charles Darwin, whose 

 student and friend she was." 



The recording secretary read a letter from Miss Gertrude 

 D. Howe, daughter of Dr. Marshall Avery Howe, acknowledg- 

 ing the club's appreciation of her father. A letter was received 

 from Prof. William L. Bray of Syracuse University thanking the 

 club for his election to Honorary Life Membership. 



Dr. Fulling proposed that the afternoon meetings of the 

 club be held at 3:00 p.m. rather than at 3:30. There was some 

 discussion of this proposal but no action was taken. 



For the scientific program, Dr. Ralph H. Cheney of the Bi- 

 ology Department of Long Island University gave a very com- 

 prehensive talk on the "Morphology and Chemistry of the 



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