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PROCEEDINGS OF THE CLUB 
OCTOBER IO, IQII* 
The meeting of October ro, 1911, was held at American Mu- 
seum of Natural History at 8:15 p.m., President Rusby presiding. 
Forty persons were present. 
The minutes of the meetings of May 8 and May 31 were read 
and approved. Professor R. A. Harper, Columbia University, 
Dr. C. W. Ballard, 115 W. 68th Street, F. D. Fromme, Columbia 
University, A. B. Stout, New York Botanical Garden; and Miss 
C. Rabinowitz, New York City, were then proposed for member- 
ship. 
The report of the secretary on the method of changing the day 
of a regular meeting was accepted. Dr. E. B. Southwick, chair- 
man of the Field Committee reported progress. А similar 
report was offered by Dr. Rusby, acting for the committee to 
revise the constitution. 
Professor R. A. Harper, Dr. C. W. Ballard, F. D. Fromme, 
A. B. Stout, and Miss C. Rabinowitz were elected to membership. 
The scientific program consisted of a lecture on ‘‘Some Edible 
and Poisonous Mushrooms," by Dr. W. A. Murrill. The lecture 
was illustrated with lantern slides which had been made from 
photographs of specimens recently collected in the vicinity of New 
York City and colored while the specimens were in a fresh con- 
dition, thus enabling the artists to reproduce the natural colora- 
tion of the specimens photographed. The speaker stated that 
the exceptionally large number of recent deaths due to poisonous 
species of mushrooms was no doubt attributable to the abundant 
crops of Amanita phalloides and Amanita muscaria which have 
followed the copious rainfall of this season. Slides showing the 
poisonous species in several stages of growth were exhibited 
and the special marks of identification were pointed out. Fol- 
. lowing these were shown slides of some of the edible mushrooms 
easily confused with the poisonous varieties. The two most 
characteristic features of the poisonous mushroom are the “death 
* Inadvertently omitted from the January issue of TORREYA. _ 
