506 STATE POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



The president, vice-president, and treasurer remarked that if we made an 

 exhibition, the society, county and State, would receive due credit for the 



same. 



On calling for the ayes and nays, the election of space was carried unani- 

 mously. 



OPPOSITION TO CONSOLIDATION OF EEPORTS. 



South Haveis", Jan. IG, 1875. 



Preambles and a resolution were then read opposing the consolidation of the 

 State Agricultural and Pomological Eeports, recommended by the Governor 

 in his recent message, which were unanimously adopted by the society, and 

 referred to the committee appointed to attend the Lansing meeting, as follows : 



■Whereas, The annual Report of Transactions of the Michigan State Pomological Soci- 

 ety have come to exert a wide and beneficial influence, both within and without the State ; 

 and by the high quality of tlie matter they contain, are doing very much to elevate the 

 standard of fruit culture among us, as well as to develop abroad a knowledge of our capac- 

 ities in this respeci, and thus to invite the development of this capacity by the iatroduc- 

 tion of foreign capital; and. 



Whereas, We are fully convinced that such result has been, to a very considerable 

 extent, due to the fact that the preparation of this report has been strictly in the hands of 

 persons conversant with the peculiar wants of fruit culture, and confined solely to that 

 interest; in consequence of which these volumes have, very largely, gone into the hands 

 of persons needing them, and qualified to appreciate them ; therefore. 



Resolved, By the South Haven Pomological Society, that we observe with regret, that the 

 Governor, in his recent message, has recommended the consolidation of the Transactions 

 of the State Pomological Society with those of the State Board of Agriculture, for the 

 reason, among others, that the number of copies published is, even under present arrange- 

 ments, by no means adequate to supply the wants of citizens of the State, directly inter- 

 ested in the culture of fruits ; and that the combining of the two in one volume, must 

 result in the placing of at least the Pomological Report in the hands of large numbers of 

 persons whose business and pursuits are strictly agricultural, and who, therefore, will care 

 little for pomological matters ; while the many interested direcily in fruit culture, and who 

 BOW find it diflScult, if not impossible, to secure copies of the Pomological Report, will then 

 experience still greater difllculty in doing so, on account of their absorption by distribution 

 to agriculturists and others interested in neither pursuit, while the increased size of such 

 consolidated volume must necessarily render it unwield}', and at the same time add consid- 

 erably to the expense of publication in securing an equal degree of publicity. 



RECORD OF TEMPERATURE. 



Lansing, Mich., February 12, 1875. 



Friend Bidwell: — Will you, as a representative of your pomological so- 

 ciety, give me any information you may possess or c;m obtain upon the follow- 

 ing questions : 



First — Have you any exact record of differing temperatures with diflferences 

 in altitude during any term of depression of the thermometer? 



Second — Please give me, in short, the prevailing theory of atmospheric 



