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Dr. W. Mansfield, delegate to the council of the Academy of 

 Sciences, reported that the meetings of the council during the 

 year had been of unusual interest. Miss Jean Broadhurst had 

 been allowed a grant of $200 from the Esther Herrman Fund. 



The report of the committee on honorary members not being 

 ready the chair requested the vice-president to call a meeting 

 of the committee at an early date. 



On motion of Dr. C. S. Gager the secretary was directed to 

 convey the vote of thanks of the Club to the American Museum 

 of Natural History for the use of the building during the year and 

 for the many courtesies extended the Club. 



The following officers were elected: President, Edward S. 

 Burgess; Vice-Presidents, John Hendley Barnhart and Herbert 

 Maule Richards; Secretary and Treasurer, Bernard O. Dodge; 

 Editor, E. L. Morris; Associate Editors, Jean Broadhurst, Ernest 

 Dunbar Clark, Alexander William Evans, Marshall Avery Howe, 

 Herbert Maule Richards, Arlow Burdette Stout, Norman Taylor. 



Dr. W. Mansfield was elected delegate to the council of the 

 New York Academy of Sciences. 



Meeting adjourned. 



B. O. DodGE, 



Secretary 

 January 29, 1913 



The meeting of January 29, 1913, was held in the laboratory 

 of the New York Botanical Garden at 3:30 P.M. Dr. Marshall 

 A. Howe presided. Twenty persons were present. The minutes 

 of January 14 were read and approved. 



Resignations from the following members were read and 

 accepted: Gladys Pomeroy, Alice L. M. Wheeler, Alice R. 

 Northrop, Mary F. Barrett, W. D. Hoyt, Elizabeth H. Kellogg. 



The following committee appointments for 191 3 were an- 

 nounced in a communication from President Burgess. 



Finance Committee. — J. I. Kane,* Robert A. Harper. 



Budget Committee. — J. H. Barnhart, N. L. Britton, B. O. 

 Dodge, E. L. Morris, M. A. Howe, H. H. Rusby. 

 ^tfieW -Committee. — Sereno Stetson, with power to name his 

 T^Pociates. 



* Died February i, 1913. 



