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Mj';I';tin(; ok Octohkk 13, 1925 



The meeting was held at liarnard ("ollcge. The folKnving new 

 members were elected : 



Miss Fanny A. Cook, Crystal Sf)rings, Mississippi. 



Prof. John M. Coulter, Boyce Thompron Institute, Yonkers, 

 New York. 



Mrs. J. V. Johnson, 41 Sterling Place, Brooklyn, N. Y. 



Dr. L. O. Kunkel, Boyce Thompson Institute, Yonkers, N. Y. 



Dr. W. J. V. Osterhout, Rockefeller Institute, 67th Street and 

 Avenue A, New York, N. Y. 



Mrs. Charlotte B. Stimpson, 1120 Fifth Avenue, New York, 

 N. Y. 



Mr. Clark Williams, 160 Broadway, New York, N. Y. 



The program of the evening consisted in the relation by the 

 various members of their experiences and collections during the 

 summer. Dr. R. A. Harper spoke of his trip to the University 

 of Wisconsin and remarked upon the notable advances there in 

 the way of making museum material attractive, especially that 

 used for class demonstrations. Particularly was this so with 

 regard to the plant disease material in which the natural colors 

 were preserved with remarkable accuracy. Dr. Hazen told of 

 his visit to London where he spent several days in bibliographical 

 work and attended a meeting of the Linnaean Society. From 

 there he went to Norway to study the Red Snow. He exhibited 

 a specimen which was apparently Chlamydomonas lateritia 

 Lagerheim on a birch twig making a bright red coloration. The 

 alga was only in the resting stage so that it was impossible to 

 identify it with certainty as Chlamydomonas. He also spoke 

 of the interesting arctic and alpine flora; in the more northern 

 regions the alpine flora occurring at low elevations. He at- 

 tended the P^ourth International Plant Geography Excursion. 

 Mr. Beale showed specimens of sphagnums, hepatics, and mosses 

 recently collected in a marl pit near Farmingdale, New Jersey. 

 The hepatics grew very vigorously on this limy soil. During this 

 summer he found in the Swartzwood Lake region several patches 

 of Leucobryum in fruit, and with Mrs. Beals collected many 

 slime molds. Dr. Rydberg described his trip in a motor car 

 through the Southern Appalachians. Among the regions visited 

 were Panther and Snowy Mts. in West Virginia, and Grand- 



