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America as are necessary and of sufficient interest and that 

 no extra expense be involved by the Club." 



The resolution was adopted. 



A vote of thanks was extended to the director of the American 

 Museum of Natural History for the courtesies extended the Club 

 during the past year. 



The resignation of Mr. F. Serringhaus was read and accepted. 



The following persons were then elected to membership: Mr. 

 C M. Shipman, Dr. A. F. Blakeslee, Dr. Walter Mendelson, 

 Miss Wanda M. Kirkbride, Mr. E. S. Schultz, Miss Isabel C. 

 Darrow, Miss Edna Adams, Mr. Edwin L. Keeler. 



The election of officers for the year 191 6 resulted as follows: 

 President, R. A. Harper; Vice-Presidents, John Hendley Barn- 

 hart, Herbert M. Richards; Secretary and Treasurer, B. O. 

 Dodge; Editor, Alexander W. Evans; Associate Editors, Jean 

 Broadhurst, J. A. Harris, Marshall Avery Howe, Herbert M. 

 Richards, A. B. Stout, W. Marquette, Norman Taylor; Delegate 

 to the Council of the New York Academy oj Sciences, John Hendley 

 Barnhart. 



Meeting adjourned. 



B. O. Dodge, 



Secretary 



NOTES AND NEWS ITEMS 



Destroying the Wild Flowers. — Within a few days our 

 own Russ hordes will begin making incursions into the loveliest 

 regions of Chicago's environs to look at nature's new smiling face. 

 They will be composed of amiable people, yielding to a gracious, 

 esthetic impulse. They will be nice folk, well disciplined, con- 

 siderate, and kindly. ^ 



They will devastate field and woodf They will yank wild 

 flowers out by the roots and scatter withered blossoms along 

 every trolley and railroad track. They will fill baskets with 

 flowers that cannot stand even the trip back into town, and, 

 if they could, would lost most of their beauty when dragged from 

 their proper environment. 



It would astonish these folk to tell them that they are exter- 

 minating the wild flowers in places accessible from Chicago. 



