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thoceros, which did not heal. — In the subsequent discussion it 

 was suggested that the process seemed similar to the clotting of 

 blood. As a result of the coagulation, toxic products may be 

 formed which interfere with the life processes. The fact that 

 recovery is more rapid after repeated woundings may be due to 

 the formation of anti-bodies in the cell which neutralize the 

 effect of these toxins. 



Arthur H. Graves, 

 Secretary. 



Meeting of April 14, 1925 



The meeting of this date was held at the American Museum of 

 Natural History. 



Three candidates for membership were elected to the Club: 

 Miss Laura Alma Kolk, Brooklyn Botanic Garden; Miss Lilian 

 H. Mandell, 3515 97th Street, Corona, Long Island; Miss Mollie 

 Sotjel, 754 Vermont Street, Brooklyn. 



The scientific part of the program consisted of an illustrated 

 lecture by Professor M. L. Fernald of Harvard University, en- 

 titled "The Floras of the Unglaciated Regions of Eastern 

 Canada and Newfoundland." 



Dr. Fernald gave a resume of a paper which is now in the 

 course of publication, showing by means of lantern slides maps 

 the distribution of many of the plants of the Gaspe Peninsula, 

 the Magdalen Islands and the Long Range of Western Newfound- 

 land. The peculiarity of the flora of these regions is that to a 

 large extent it is identical with, or closely related to the floras 

 of western North America rather than eastern America and the 

 Arctic regions. These areas, centering about the Gulf of St. 

 Lawrence, have a large endemic element in their flora which is 

 likewise more closely related to plants of the Rocky Mts. or of 

 the Pacific slope than to other regions. The areas of Gaspe and 

 the Magdalen Islands, where such plants occur, have been well 

 demonstrated by geological explorations to have escaped the 

 Pleistocene glaciation; and the botanical evidence as well as the 

 topography of the Long Range indicates a similar history for 

 that region, although the geological exploration there has been 

 limited. A review of Pleistocene history in America and in 

 Europe was given, and it was shown that many of the plants 



