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R. F. D. No. 3, Plainfield, New Jersey; Mr. Alexander F. 

 Skutch, 3509 Clark's Lane, Baltimore, Maryland; and Dr. E. B. 

 Merrill, Director, The New York Botanical Garden, Bronx 

 Park, New York City. 



The resignation of Miss Rosella Ames was accepted. 



The reading of the report of the Coordinating Council of 

 Nature Activities was accepted. 



Dr. Gleason gave a report of life membership in the Torrey 

 Botanical Club. The report of the committee was accepted 

 without adopting it. It was moved by Dr. Britton and seconded 

 by Mr. MacKenzie that fee for life-membership would be 

 $100.00. This was unanimously voted. It was moved and 

 seconded that all members who had been members of the club 

 for fift>' years or longer on January 1, 1930 become auto- 

 matically life members without further dues. This motion was 

 unanimously adopted, and Dr. Barnhart was appointed a 

 committee of one to draw up and submit these amendments 

 to the constitution in proper form. 



It was moved by Dr. Gleason and seconded by Dr. Harper 

 that the Torrey Botanical Club publish the botanical results 

 of the Tyler-Duida Expedition, providing funds are available 

 for the purpose, as a volume of its Memoirs. 



Dr. Gleason moved and Dr. Hazen seconded the motion that 

 the President of the Club appoint a committee to solicit funds 

 for the above purpose. Dr. Gleason, Dr. Britton, Dr. Harper, 

 Mr. MacKenzie and Mrs. Trelease were appointed. 



Dr. H. A. Gleason gave a talk on "Plants of Mount Duida." 

 The studies on the flora of the Mount Duida summit, so far as 

 they have yet been made, indicate an endemism of more than 

 sixty per cent. Of the remaining forty per cent., many species 

 have been hitherto known only from Mount Roraima, some 

 350 miles to the eastward. The flora seems to show even greater 

 affinity to that of southern Brazil than does Roraima, but an 

 Andean element is also present. Among the new discoveries 

 exhibited were a new genus and three new species in the family 

 Rapateaceae, a new genus of Ochnaceae, with strikingly hand- 

 some flowers, and three new species of the Southern American 

 pitcher-plant, Heliamphora. A full-sized plant of the rare 

 Barhacenia Alexandri7iae was also displayed. 



