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club since 1896, was unanimously elected to Honorary Life 

 Membership. 



The resignations of the following from annual membership 

 were accepted with regret: Mr. Leon W. Bowen, Bloomfield, 

 N.J.; Miss Eleanor A. Friend, N.Y. City.; Mr. R. B. Miller, 

 Newark, N.J.; Mr. Arthur Norton, Portland, Me.; Mr. C. M. 

 Roberts, Fairmont State Teachers' College, Fairmont, W.Va. 



Dr. A. B . Stout of the New York Botanical Garden was the 

 speaker of the evening. His discussion of "Incompatibilities in 

 Flowering Plants" was amply illustrated with carefully worked 

 out charts. Dr. Stout stated that the term incompatibility, as 

 he uses it, applies to plants within a species and results from too 

 great similarity in genetic makeup, in contrast to hybridization 

 incompatibility which results from too great dissimilarity in 

 genetic makeup. 



Plants within a species may be self incompatible and cross 

 compatible or vice versa, with many gradations in between. 

 By making a large number of crosses, he showed how it has been 

 possible to divide species into separate lines or strains on the 

 basis of the cross compatability within the group. He outlined 

 studies on Veronica where only four such lines have been found 

 to be present, and studies on petunia where a larger number of 

 lines have been discovered, and between which the compatabil- 

 ity relationships are much more complex. 



In closing he mentioned the economic importance of this type 

 of investigation, and showed the results of testing the com- 

 patability relations of a large number of fruit trees. 



D. Elizabeth Marcy 

 Recording Secretary 



