PROCEEDINGS OF THE CLUB 
MEETING OF OCTOBER 6, 1931 
The meeting was called to order by President Sinnott at 
8:40 P.M. at the American Museum of Natural History with 
thirty-five members present. 
The following people were unanimously elected to member- 
ship in the club: Miss Anna Hennedy, South Weymouth, Mass.; 
Miss Eleanor Utter, Brooklyn, N. Y.; Mr. Fred R. Clark, 
Southeastern Teachers College, Durant, Okla.; Mr. Ralph 
Hyams, New York, N. Y.; Mrs. Minnie G. Douglis, Brooklyn, 
N. Y.; Miss Estelle Feld, Brooklyn, N. Y.; Mr. Julius Jacobs, 
Brooklyn, N. Y.; Mr. James Murphy, New York, N. Y.; Mr. 
Milton O. Pozdena, Winfield Jc., Long Island, N. Y.; Dr. Gil- 
bert L. Stout, State Department of Agriculture, Office of Plant 
Pathology, Sacramento, Cal. 
Dr. C. Stuart Gager of Brooklyn Botanic Garden exhibited 
specimens of green roses from their rose garden. Dr. Gager re- 
ported that Gordonia altamaha has blossomed freely there this 
summer. 
Mr. George T. Hastings and Dr. Tracy Hazen commented 
on the Western Meeting of the American Association at Pasa- 
dena this summer. 
Dr. Edmund W. Sinnott reported on the summer meeting 
at the Pennsylvania State College. 
Dr. Arthur H. Graves told about his hybridizing experi- 
ments with the Japanese and American chestnuts and showed 
a bur of the Japanese chestnut with very large fruit. 
Professor Copeland gave an interesting report on the algae 
found in the Hot Springs of the Rocky Mountains, particularly 
of the Yellowstone, and reported that he found blue green 
algae at a temperature of eighty-four degrees centigrade. The 
species of Conjugatae are found only at very much lower tem- 
perature, less than fifty degrees. He showed some fine preserved 
specimens of the Hot Spring algae. 
Mr. Raymond H. Torrey reported on the summer meetings 
and stated that the last one had brought out an unusual large 
attendance of one hundred people. 
Dr. Forman T. McLean also announced that The New York 
Botanical Garden had recently received from Captain Bob 
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