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comycetes. He laid particular stress on the ascomycetes, 

 showed how the ascus is the result of the fusion of the two cells 

 and further demonstrated the results of cross-breeding in 

 Neurospora bread molds which he has been studying. He also 

 explained how heterothallic strains arise from the small uni- 

 nucleate ascospores which regularly occur in his eight-spored 

 strains and sometimes arise also by the production of small 

 supernumerary spores in the normally four-spored strains. 



Professor Sinnott then directed the attention of the gather- 

 ing to the exhibits and to the refreshments arranged in another 

 room of the building, called attention to the different exhibits 

 by Dr. Harper, Professor Hazen, Mr. Hastings, Dr. Matzke, 

 Mr. Karling, Dr. McLean, and others and made mention also 

 of his own of lawngrass seedlings mounted under the microscope 

 to show protoplasmic streaming. 



The formal meeting was adjoined at about 9:30 p.m. 



FoRMAN T. McLean 



Secretary 



Meeting of January 7, 1930 



The meeting was called to order at the American Museum 

 of Natural History at 8:30 p.m. by President Denslow. 



The following were unanimously elected to membership in 

 the club: 



Miss Sarah Garland, 606 West 122nd Street, New York 

 City; Miss Margaret Lodor, 284 Paulison Avenue, Passaic, 

 New Jersey; Dr. Henry Knute Svenson, Brooklyn Botanic 

 Garden, Brooklyn, New York. 



The resignation of Dr. Jas. A. Paris was accepted with re- 

 gret. 



The reports of the Secretary, of the Treasurer, of the Editor 

 of the Bulletin, of Torreya and of the Business Manager were 

 read and approved. 



Dr. H. M. Denslow, Honorary Custodian of the Herbarium, 

 reported on enlarged facilities for housing the local herbarium. 



Dr. J. H. Barnhart reported as Delegate to the Council of 

 the New York Academy of Sciences that our relations with them 

 continue as in the past. 



