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For additional members of Executive Committee, Dr. J. B. Smith, G. G. 

 Atwood, N. Y., and Prof. A. J. Cook, Cal. 



Respectfully submitted, 



H. A. Surface, 

 H. E. Summers, 

 S. A. Forbes, 



Committee. 



By motion the Secretary was authorized to cast the ballot for the 

 election of the members nominated. The ballot was cast and the 

 members nominated were elected. 



The President announced the following names as members of the 

 Legislative Committee: — 



Mr. T. B. Symons, E. L. Worsham, H. A. Surface. 



This concluded the business transacted at the meeting. 



PART II 



The Secretary was asked to take the chair, while the President 

 delivered an address, as follows: — 



PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS 



Franklin Sherman, Jr., Raleigh, N. C. 



At the last meeting of this Association, held in Minneapolis, you did 

 me the honor (in my absence you will observe) to elect me as President 

 of this Association for the present term, — and as such it falls to my lot 

 to open this session with some remarks. But I cannot claim for 

 these few rambling thoughts the dignity of a Presidential address. 

 In our previous meetings the general matters of policy in our horti- 

 cultural inspection work have been gone over time and again until 

 I almost despair of bringing to your attention anything new or even 

 interesting. I shall try not to see how many subjects I can suggest, 

 but how few, — depending on the meeting itself to develop others. 



Matters of importance will come before us in the reports of the Com- 

 mittee on National Legislation and the other standing Committees, 

 and the discussion of the papers, and the Questions for Discussion 

 should, as heretofore, be matters of keen interest. 



There can be no doubt that one of the matters of chief interest 

 and concern to most of us in the east at least, is the inspection of 

 incoming stock from foreign countries for Gipsy and Brown-tail 

 Moths. Yet, surely all of us have had the experience of making costly 



