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The President: We still have some time left on our hands 
before adjournment, and we would like to hear from any one 
who has anything tosay. Perhaps Mr. Bryant would like to 
say a few words to us before we adjourn. 
Mr. Bryant, (Illinois): I want to express the great pleasure I feel 
in meeting with you here, and the great pleasure I have felt in the 
courtesy you have shown us, and to express my gratification at the 
splendid exhibition of fruit you have madehere. Another thing 
that has pleased me very much is the appreciation you show for 
your members, your old members while they are still engaged in 
active work in the society. This strikes me as avery proper and 
appropriate recognition of their services by calling attention to it 
before they go. I thank you very much for the various courtesies 
you have shown me. We hold our meeting the last of the month at 
Springfield, and we should be very glad to have you send a delegate 
there, if it is convenient, and I will promise that we will do the best 
we can to make his visit agreeable and profitable. 
The President: It has afforded us a great deal of pleasure 
to have you and your companion with us, and to have a repre- 
sentative from the Illinois society present to take part in our 
deliberations, and I might also say it affords us a great deal of 
pleasure to have representatives from the various societies 
with us. I have been pleased to see that they are so prompt 
and willing to take part in our deliberations, and have assisted 
us much in our work by their words of encouragement and 
counsel. We shall always be glad to welcome them in our 
midst. 
Secretary Latham: I wish to make a motion that the 
visiting delegates and friends at this meeting be made honorary 
members for the ensuing year. 
The motion was seconded and, being put to vote, unanimously 
prevailed. 
Mr. T. T. Smith: In line with the motion adopted, which 
was made on the resolution presented by Mr. Harris in regard 
to the free seed distribution, I want to make a motion that the 
secretary be instructed to send a copy of that resolution to the 
various state societies that are interested in agriculture and 
horticulture. To send copies to horticultural and agricultural 
societies of other states and request them to carry on the good 
work and communicate with their members of congress to the 
same effect as provided for in the resolution. 
The motion was seconded and unanimously carried. 
The President: I think we have overlooked the report of 
the committee on obituaries and the committee on final resolu- 
