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Estimated Income 

 Members' Dues . . . .$1500.00 



Bulletin 1000.00 



Torreya 150.00 



Memoirs 100.00 



Index Cards 600.00 



Interest 150.00 



Advertising 100.00 



Sales 100.00 



Total $3700.00 



Estimated Outgo 



Bulletin $2000.00 



Editor (Bulletin) . . . loo.oo 



Torreya 500.00 



Index Cards 400.00 



Treasurer 150.00 



Bibliographer 150.00 



Sundries 150.00 



Bulletin (from 

 surplus) . . . . 



$3450.00 

 600.00 



Total .$4050.00 



The report of the Budget Committee was adopted by vote of 

 the Club. 



Dr. Small then described some of his work on Irises. The 

 original home of the Irises in the southeastern part of the 

 United States was in the land now represented by the southern 

 part of the Southern Appalachians. The land between this 

 region and the Atlantic was submerged in the pleistocene. 

 Since the subsequent emergence of the land the species have 

 migrated in all directions. Florida is a very favorable field for 

 Iris exploration. 12 or 14 species occur in the eastern United 

 States. Water colors of the various species were shown. 



Arthur H. Graves, 



Secretary. 



Meeting of February 10, 1925 



This meeting was held at the American Museum of Natural 

 History. 



The following were elected to membership in the Club: Mrs. 

 Ernest H. Wilson, 37 Forest Ave., Caldwell, N. J.; Mrs. Spencer 

 S. Marsh, Kalmia Lodge, Madison, N. J. 



It was announced that two members had been lost by death. 

 Mr. E. B. Chamberlain, a member since 1907, died on February 2, 

 He was for twenty years a teacher at the Franklin School for 



