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Dr. C. Stuart Gager was elected Delegate to represent the 
Torrey Club at the centenary anniversary of the Academy of 
Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, March nineteenth, twentieth 
and twenty-first. 
The resignations of Miss Louise H. Seely, Edwyn Waller, 
Leon L. Cypress, H. Dautun and Edwin C. Bolles were read 
and accepted. The lecture on ‘Agricultural Information for 
City People" was postponed on account of the unavoidable 
absence of Prof. O. S. Morgan. 
Dr. C. A. Darling of Columbia University presented a paper 
on “The Determination of Woods." The speaker exhibited 
specimens of about forty different kinds of woods and outlined a 
method by which the identity of a piece of wood may be deter- 
mined with the aid of a hand lens. 
Meeting adjourned. 
B. O. DODGE, Secretary 
MARCH 12, 1912 
The meeting of March 12, 1912, was held at the American 
Museum of Natural History at 8:15 P.M. The meeting was 
called to order by Dr. Z. L. Leonard in the absence of officers of 
the Club. Mr. Sereno Stetson was appointed Secretary pro 
tem. Twenty-five persons were present. 
The paper of the evening consisted of an illustrated lecture 
by Dr. Marshall A. Howe on ‘‘Some Floral and Scenic Features 
of Cuba." Lantern-slide photographs were shown illustrating 
characteristic Cuban plant associations, particularly in the 
provinces of Oriente, Camagiiey, Matanzas, and Pinar del Rio. 
Special attention was given to the numerous native palms of 
the island and to the cacti of the Guantanamo Bay region. 
The sugar, tobacco, and fruit-growing industries of Cuba were 
also illustrated and commented upon. 
Meeting adjourned. 
SERENO STETSON, Sec. pro tem. 
