6«; TRANSACTIONS OF THE ILT/INOTS 



Date. No. of Warrant. To Whom Paid. Amount. 



Brought forward $Ij538 i6 



July 28, 1875 ^3 ^- •^- Galusha 150 00 



Sept. 9, " 64 \Y. C. Flagg (Treas. J>rc> fcm.) 500 00 



" 10, "■ 65 C. E. Southard 29 00 



" II, " 66 J.B.Drake 16850 



Oct. 21, " 67 G.H.Baker 23 50 



Nov. 22, " 68 T. Butterworth 24 00 



Total amount paid on warrants $2,413 i^' 



Leaving in the treasury the sum of !^I,203 55 



Respectfully submitted, 



JONA. HUGGINS, 



Treasurer III. State Horlicultitral Society. 



WooDRURN, III., Dec. 14, 1875. 



The President — These reports, under the rules of the Society, will 

 go into the hands of the Auditing Committee. 



IN MEMORIAM. 



The Committee appointed to present resolutions relating to deceased 

 members reported, through Mr. Wier, as follows : 



Mr. President, and Fellow Mejtibers of the Illhiois State Horticultural 

 Society : 



Your Committee on Resolutions relating to our honored dead will 

 report in brief, in view of the fact that your sentiments will be presented 

 more at length by others who are to immediately follow us : 



Whereas, Since our last meeting, our brethren and co-laborers in 

 horticulture — Hon. Matthias L. Dunlap, one of the ex-Presidents of this 

 Society ; Frank Starr, Secretary of the Society in its earlier years ; and 

 Dr. E. S. Hull, the first President of this organization as a State Society, 

 and our President for 1875 — have been removed by death ; and 



Whereas, Deeply mourning, as we do, their death, and feeling the 

 irreparable loss to this Society, to horticulture, and to the community at 

 large, be it 



Resolved, That the sincere sympathy of the members of the Illinois 

 State Horticultural Society is hereby tendered to the families and friends 

 of our deceased brothers ; and that copies of this preamble and resolu- 

 tion be transmitted to them by our Secretary. 



Signed by the Committee, 



The report was unanimously adopted, by a rising vote. 



