168 AJffNUAL REPORT 



FOURTH DAY 



FRIDAY MORNING. 



The essay of Mr. Pearce ou Orcharding in Minnesota, entered 

 for the prize ot the society, was read by Assistant Secretary 

 Stearns. 



Secretary Gibbs. It will be physically impossible to get through 

 the mass of important business accumulated for this the last day 

 of our meeting, if we take time to read the other three essays. I 

 regret to make the motion to refer them without reading and dis- 

 cussion, as they are all good ones, but am obliged to ask that they 

 be put over in order to clear our business docket if possible. 



The motion was agreed to, and the committee was authorized to 

 order any of the essays published in the Transactions at their dis- 

 cretion. 



The secretary then read a hst of the premiums awarded and an- 

 nounced that a certified list had been placed in the hands of the 

 treasurer in a convenient form for immediate payment. 



Treasurer Grimes invited those who had premiums due them to 

 call on him at the ofiice of Prof. Porter, in the room adjoining, 

 where he would be ready with funds to pay in full, and the pre- 

 miums, so far as called for, were then paid. 



The list of entries and the premiums awarded is as follows : 



