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TORREYA 520.00 



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 Estimated balance .■ 105.00 



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The resignation of Jessie P. Rose was read and accepted. Mr. 

 W. H. Lamb, Sylviculture Division of Forest Service, Washing- 

 ton, D. C, Professor F. H. Blodgett, Texas Agricultural Experi- 

 ment Station, College Station, Texas, and Dr. W. T. Swingle, 

 United States Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C, 

 were elected to membership. 



The first part of the scientific program consisted of a paper on 

 "Some Peruvian Marine Algae " by Dr. Marshall A. Howe. This 

 was a preliminary report on a collection of about 100 species made 

 by Dr. Robert E. Coker, now of the U. S. Bureau of Fisheries, 

 while employed as a fisheries expert by the Peruvian government. 

 It was stated that, although lying wholly within the tropics, the 

 marine flora of Peru is essentially of a "temperate" character, 

 the large and conspicuous seaweeds being kelps of the genera 

 Macrocystis, Lessonia, and Eisenia. The absence of genera that 

 are commonly considered peculiar to the tropics is doubtless due 

 chiefly to the Humboldt Current, which brings northward along 

 the western coast of South America the cold waters of the south. 

 The temperature of the ocean waters off the coast of Peru, except 

 for a short strip at the extreme north, has been compared by Dr. 

 Coker to the summer temperatures of the Atlantic at New York 

 and of the Pacific at Monterey, California. After a discussion of 

 the earlier collections of algae made on the coast of Chili and 

 Peru, specimens were exhibited illustrating some of the char- 

 acteristic species of the region. These included several which 

 appear to be hitherto undescribed and of which descriptions are 

 soon to be published. 



The second number on the program was entitled "Bud Varia- 



