STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



TRANSACTIONS, 1882-3. 



MEETING OF EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. 



Minneapolis, Thursday, June 1, 1882. 



The Executive Committee met at the rooms of the Young Men's 

 Christian Association at two o'clock, P.M. Present — J. S. Harris, 

 of La Crescent, President; D. W. Humphrey, of Faribault; Wyman 

 Elliot, of Minneapolis, and S. M. Emery, of Lake City, representing 

 J. M. Underwood. Colonel John H. Stevens, of Minneapolis, and 

 Oliver Gibbs, Jr., of Lake City, being also present, by invitation, 

 acted with the committee in their deliberations. 



The following business was transacted: 



Oliver Gibbs, Jr., of Lake City, was appointed Acting Secretary 

 in place of U. S. Hollister, who had relinquished his office as Sec- 

 retary by removing from the State. The Acting Secretary was 

 authorized to superintend the publication and distribution of the 

 transactions for the current year, and to perform all other duties 

 incumbent on the secretary during the remainder of Mr. Hollister's 

 term of office. 



It was voted to hold the summer meeting at the Agricultural 

 Building of the State University in Minneapolis, on Tuesday and 

 Wednesday, June 27 and 28. Professor Edward D. Porter was 

 appointed Superintendent of Exhibitions, and Richard Chute, C. 

 M. Loriug and M. Pearce, of Minneapolis, were requested to act as 



