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PROCEEDINGS OF THE CLUB 

 January io, 191 i 



The first meeting of the Club for 191 1 was held at the American 

 Museum of Natural History, beginning at 8:25 p.m., President 

 Rusby in the chair. There were nineteen persons present. Dr. 

 C. A. Darling, of the department of botany, Columbia Univer- 

 sity, was nominated for membership. 



This being the annual meeting, reports were presented by the 

 various officers. 



The report of the Treasurer was presented and upon motion 

 referred to an auditing committee. 



The Secretary reported that fifteen meetings had been held 

 during the year with a total attendance of 467, as against 411 

 in 1909, and an average attendance of thirty-one, as against 

 twenty-seven last year. Twelve persons have been elected to 

 membership, and eight resignations received and accepted. Six 

 illustrated lectures were delivered during the season at which 

 the combined attandance was 319, as against 251 at seven meet- 

 ings last year. 



The Editor reported that the Bulletin for the year 1910 con- 

 tains 630 pages and 36 plates, and that the expense of its publica- 

 tion was less than the amount allowed for it by the Budget 

 Committee. He also reported that only one paper had been 

 published in the Memoirs, this being a paper by Dr. O. Butler 

 on The Californian Vine Disease. The Editor declined to be 

 considered for reelection. His detailed report is appended. 



The Editor of Torreya presented a special report for that 

 periodical. The volume of Torreya for 19 10 contalAel^ 292 

 pages. I 



The chairman of the Field Committee reported that twenty- 

 three meetings were advertised during the year, one of which 

 was an afternoon lecture at the New York Botanical Garden. 

 Eight meetings were not held on account of stormy weather or 

 from other causes. At the fourteen field meetings actually held 

 there was a total of 103 persons present, making an average 

 attendance of a little more than seven at each meeting. 



