STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIKTY. 55 



SECRE^J'ARY'S REPORT. 



Mr. President and Fellow-members: 



Secretary U. S. Hollister was called away from the State on 

 business in the latter part of April. Soon afterwards he sent to me 

 from Nashville, Tennessee, his manuscripts for the volume of 

 Transactions for 1882, together with some of the portable property 

 of the society, and a receipt from A. L. Larpenteur, of St. Paul, 

 showing a storage there of the cases of books, pamphlets, etc., con- 

 stituting our library; and, on the 1st of June, at a meeting of the 

 Executive Committe at Minneapolis, I was appointed Acting-Sec- 

 retary for the remainder of Mr. Hollister's term of office, which 

 expires at the close of this meeting. 



Upon consultation with Prof. Porter, he kindly offered to furnish 

 storage for the cases of books at St. Paul, and they were tranferred 

 to the building occupied by the College of Agriculture at the Uni- 

 versity of Minnesota, where they now remain free of expense to 

 the society, in a room provided with library and office conveniences, 

 fitted up expressly for our use. 



I have made a catalogue of the books, etc., contained in the cases 

 referred to, which is herewith presented, and from which it will 

 be seen that, after making a liberal allowance for the future wants 

 of the society in supplying back numbers to members and ex- 

 changes, we still have on hand a considerable surplus of our annual 

 reports, and I hope you will devise some plan tor their early dis- 

 tribution and instruct the secretary accordingly. 



If the books are to remain in their present quarters, [ would re- 

 commend that some person connected with the State University be 

 appointed as librarian and allowed a reasonable compensation for 



