57 



P.M. with President Harper presiding. Twenty-five persons 

 were present. 



The minutes of the meetings of October 13, October 28 and 

 November 10 were read and approved. 



The following persons were nominated for membership: Miss 

 Edna Baer, 510 W. 170 St., New York City, Miss Helene Boas, 

 Grantwood, N. J., Miss Mary Stewart, Barnard College, Mr. 

 Clifford Farr, Columbia University, Mr. Ralph Stewart, Colum- 

 bia University, and Mr. Cecil Yampolsky, Columbia University. 



Dr. Howe brought up for consideration the question of the 

 advisability of accepting for publication as Part HI of Vol. 14 

 of the Memoirs a paper by Mr. F. L. Pickett. By a vote of the 

 Club the matter was referred to the Budget Committee with 

 instructions to report at the annual meeting in January. The 

 following were then elected to membership: Misses Grace 

 Stewart, Edna Baer, Helene Boas, Mary Stewart and Messrs. 

 M. A. Raines, R. C. Faulwetter, Chfford Farr, Ralph Stewart, 

 and Cecil Yampolsky. 



The first number on the announced scientific program con- 

 sisted of a paper " Phylogenetische Betrachtungen iiber Algen" 

 by Prof. Dr. N. Wille. 



Dr. Wille began by criticizing the present-day methods in 

 determining phylogenies and followed this with an outline of a 

 natural classification of the Thallophytes especially the algae. 



Under the title, "Note on a Fresh-water Cladophora from 

 Porto Rico," Dr. M. A. Howe showed and discussed briefly a 

 peculiar specimen collected in a river near J nana Diaz by Mrs. 

 N. L. Britton and Miss Delia Marble in March, 1913. The 

 filaments, which often reach a length of 5-8 cm. without showing 

 any branches and have a diameter of 200-300 /x, were evidently 

 attached by well-developed basal holdfasts. The plant was at 

 first taken for a Chaetomorpha, but Prof. N. Wille, to whom it 

 was submitted, found on some of the filaments very short 

 branches, represented for the most part by a simple evagination 

 just below a septum, but in one case reaching a length of three 

 cells. The walls of the main filament are very thick and en- 

 crusted, while those of the short branches are much thinner. 



