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on page loi Dicrainini fidvuin is listed where D. moiitamivi 

 was evidently intended, as is apparent from the key. It is to be 

 hoped that members of the Torrey Botanical Club will in the 

 near future devote themselves to the study of the flora of the 

 metropolitan district with the purpose of publishing a series of 

 papers similar to ''The bryophytes of Connecticut" in order to 

 facilitate the study and ready identification of both the seed- 

 bearing and seedless plants of the vicinity of New York City. 

 Meanwhile, " The bryophytes of Connecticut " will prove almost 

 as useful in New York and indeed along our whole North At- 

 lantic seaboard as it will in Connecticut. 



Marshall A. Howe. 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE CLUB* 



January 12, 1909 



The first meeting of the Club for 1909 was held at the Ameri- 

 can Museum of Natural History, with President Rusby in the 

 chair. There were ten members present. 



After the reading and approval of the minutes for December 

 8, 1908, the resignations of the following members were presented 

 and accepted : Miss Anna Murray Vail, Miss Henrietta E. 

 Hooker, Mrs. John R. Delafield, Mr. C. C. Hanmer, and Mr. 

 Albert Ruth. 



This being the annual meeting of the Club, reports were pre- 

 sented by the treasurer, editor, chairman of the field committee, 

 and the secretary. These were read, accepted, and placed on file. 



The editor reported the completion of Volume 35 of the 

 Bulletin, containing 608 pages and 40 plates. The only Mcvioir 

 published during 1908 was " A Study of the Lactariae of the 

 United States " by Dr. Gertrude S. Burlingham. This paper 

 was issued in May as No. i of Volume 14 of the Club's Memoirs, 

 and contained 109 pages and 15 half tone illustrations. 



Mr. Charles Louis Pollard presented his report as chairman of 

 the field committee up to the time of his resignation in August. 

 Mr. George V. Nash, who acted as chairman for the remainder 



* No meeting was held tlie last Wednesday in December. 



