THE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY OF NEW YORK 



gate to the council of the New York Academy of Sciences. He 

 was unanimously elected. 



The following election officers for the annual meeting to be 

 held in May, 1919. were unanimously elected: 



Tellers : P. W. Popp, John Scheepers. 



Alternates : J. H. Barnhart, Henry Hicks. 



There being no further business before the meeting, adjourn- 

 ment was taken at 4:30 P.M. 



Geo. V. Nash, 



Secretary. 



EIGHTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE 

 BOARD OF DIRECTORS 



The Society has now completed the sixteenth year of its incor- 

 poration and the eighteenth of its existence. The present mem- 

 bership is 771, as follows: patrons, 5; sustaining members, 6; 

 life members, 170; annual members, 580; associate members, 8; 

 corresponding members, 2. There have been added during the 

 year 34 new members, of which I is sustaining, 3 are life, 27 an- 

 nual, I associate, and 2 corresponding. Losses in membership 

 have been as follows: by death, 16, of which 13 were annual and 

 3 life members ; by resignation, 4 ; dropped on account of non- 

 payment of dues, 15 ; total 35. 



The permanent fund is now $28,736.66. 



The following meetings of the Society have been held, those 

 from May to September at the New York Botanical Garden, the 

 remainder at the American Museum of Natural History : 



May 12, 1917. Annual Meeting. A lecture in the course of 

 the New York Botanical Garden was delivered by ]\Ir. Geo. V. 

 Nash on " The Spring Flower Garden." 



June 9. Lecture in the Garden course by Prof A. C. Beal on 

 " Garden Roses." 



July 14. A Garden course lecture by Dr. A. B. Stout on 

 " Plants Grown by the American Indians." 



The following exhibitions were held : 



May 12 and 13, 1917. At the New York Botanical Garden. 



June 9 and 10. At the New York Botanical Garden. 



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