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106 ANNUAL REPORT. 
At the last meeting of this society action was taken favormg an amended 
claim law, and an act to provide for sending a commissioner to Europe to exan 
ine and report upon forestry on that continent. The Secretary was directed to 
notity the Senators and Representatives of this State in Congress. This was 
done, and answers were received, promising compliance with the request of the Ss 
society. 
Executive Committee. 
The Executive Committee has met once since the last meeting of the society. 
There seeming to be occasion for it, a meeting was called on the State Fair 
grounds at St. Paul, Sept. 6th, when the following resolution was offered and 
unanimously passed: 
Resolved, That no products grown in whole or in part by State aid, shall be 
awarded a cash premium at this exhibition, but that the judges in the different 
departments be requested to pass upon such exhibits, and to award such honorary 
commendations as may be found just. 
Passed unanimously by the Executive Committee, Sept. 6th, 1878. 
Library. 
The library of the society has received important additions durmg the past 
year, among which the following are particularly worthy of mention: 
Proc. of Am. Pom. Soc., session of 1869 and session of 1871; 10 Addresses and 
other papers from Hon. M. P. Wilder. 
Proc. W. N. Y. Hort. Soc., 1874 to 1878, 5 volumes in paper, from P. C. Reyn- 
olds, Secretary. ; 
Reports Mich. Pom. Soc., 1871 to 1877, 7 volumes, in cloth, from Chas. W. 
Garfield, Secretary. 
Reports Mich. Bd. Agr., 1870 to 1877, 7 volumes, in cloth, from Prof. W. J. 
Beal, of Mich. Agr. College. 
Owing to accummulations of reports and proceedings in paper binding, which 
are difficult to preserve in good shape, the secretary has taken the responsibility 
of having some of them bound together in leather, at an expense that will appear 
later in this report. 
The following 1s a complete list of all the books and papers now 1m the library: 
Transactions Illinois Hort. Soc., 1868 to 1874, 6 volumes, in cloth. 
Entomology of Missouri, 1873, 6th report, 1 volume, in cloth. 
Report of Wisconsin State Hort. Soc., 1869, 1 volume, in paper. 
Transactions Wisconsin State Hort. Soc., 1871 and 1872, 2 volumes, in cloth. 
Transactions Wisconsin State Hort. Soc., 1874 to 1876, 3 volumes, in cloth. 
Pomology of Maine, 1873 and 1874, 1 volume, in cloth. 
Pomology of Maine, 1875 and 1876, 1 volume, in leather. 
Transactions and Papers of Nebraska State Hort Soc., to 1871, 1 volume, in 
leather. 
Transactions Nebraska State Hort. Soc., 1872, 1 volume, in cloth. 
Transactions Nebraska State Hort. Soc., 1877, 1 volume, in paper. 
Transactions Kansas State Hort. Soc., 1872 to 1874, 3 volumes, in cloth. 
Transactions Kansas State Hort. Soc., 1875, 1 volume, in paper. 
U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Report, 1876, 1 volume, in cloth. 
Reports of Fruit Growers’ Association and Entomological Society of Ontario, 
1875 and 1876, 1 volume, in leather. 
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