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After a short discussion of curculios and plums the meeting adjourned. 



The July meeting occurred on the 4th, for which reason, doubtless, it was 

 very lightly attended. 



The committee reported that the law required a three weeks' publication in 

 a newspaper, which had been done. 



The meeting adjourned till the next day, when the constitution and by-laws 

 were reported by the committee. They were discussed, article by article, 

 amended where needful and adopted. 



The title of the society became the Michigan State Pomological Society, 



The officers were to be a president, eight vice presidents, a secretary, a 

 treasurer, and an executive committee of nine members, including the presi- 

 dent, secretary and treasurer, four constituting a quorum. 



The office was to be at Grand Rapids. The annual meeting to be held on 

 the first Tuesday in December, and the officers elect to assume their offices 

 on January 1st; the meetings to be held monthly. The limit of property to 

 be held by the society to be 120,000. 



At the regular August meeting a communication was received from the 

 Chief Signal Officer, U. S. A., and referred to a committee to report at the 

 next meeting. 



The following resolution was unanimously adopted: 



Resolved, That the society proceed to collect fruit from the different parts 

 of the State to be forwarded to the Richmond (American Pomological Soci- 

 ety) fair, with a delegation. 



The following persons were subsequently named as delegates : H. S. Clubb, 

 A. T. Linderman, C. L. Whitney, S L. Fuller and T. T. Lyon. Of these 

 only A. T. Linderman was actually in attendance at Richmond. 



The regular September meeting was held at Pomological Hall, on the 

 grounds of the Kent County Agricultural Society, to complete arrangements 

 for the approaching fair. 



A committee was also appointed to supervise the collecting and shipping 

 of fruits and grains for exhibition at the California State fair, to be held at 

 Sacramento. 



The second annual fair of the society was held September 12th to 15th, 

 1871, on the grounds oi the Kent County Agricultural Society, but in con- 

 nection with the Northern Michigan Agricultural and Mechanical Society. 



The exhibit of fruit was exceedingly fine, in the estimation of many per- 

 sons having seldom, if ever, been excelled. The premiums were very large 

 and the competition exceedingly spirited. A set of premiums was offered 

 for county collections of fruits, which were open to the entire State. In this 

 class the first premium was awarded to Wayne county for a collection coming 

 mainly from the trial orchards of T. T. Lyon, of Plymouth. The second 

 was awarded to Kent county. 



California contributed to the exhibit twenty-six varieties of apples, exceed- 

 ingly large and beautiful, seven varieties of pears, some of them twelve inches 

 in circumference, and others weighing a pound each, also seventeen varieties 

 of grapes. 



John Suttle, T. R. Renwick, Mrs. William Rowe, and others supplied 

 large and beautiful collections of plants and flowers. So fine was the horti- 

 cultural display as a whole that the remark was a common one that it was the 

 distinguishing feature of the fair. 



The society's October meeting was held at Spring Lake upon an invitation 



