82 MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



President Elliot: — This closes our program for this morning. 

 We will now adjourn to half past one. The beekeepers will be 

 in session here this afternoon and evening. 



WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON SESSION. 



JANUARY 21. 



The meeting was called to order by President Elliot. 



President Elliot: — There are one or two things we passed 

 over this morning that perhaps we had better take up and dis- 

 pose of before the beekeepers go into session. 



I wish to call the attention of the members to the maps that 

 are on the wall here. These are maps that have been loaned 

 to us from the geological survey of Prof. Winchell, and they 

 will come up later in our discussions, but I just want to make 

 this little explanation in regard to them so you can be studying 

 them before the discussion comes on. 



Prof. Green: — Our idea in bringing these maps here was to 

 show you w T hat an important work had been done. Last year 

 there was considerable discussion as to the advisability of pub- 

 lishing a map showing the various features of the country. 

 There are twenty of these maps and each one shows some dif- 

 ferent feature. Thus one map shows the general outline of the 

 state, another shows the geological features, another gives the 

 forest area, another the water area, and the prairie area, and 

 they are all worth studying. These maps were gotten up at a 

 great expense to take to the New Orleans Exposition, and they 

 are well worth studying, and we propose to draw some lessons 

 from them when we reach that part of our business. 



President Elliot: In reference to this hall; it was donated to 

 us free by the Guaranty Loan Company on the condition that 

 we are not to deface or injure it in any way, and we are to use it 

 as long as we want it, or until we get through with it this 

 week. 



Then there is the matter of an amendment to the constitu- 

 tion. I believe that has not been taken up yet and it would be 

 well to consider it now . An amendment has been passed up 

 here, perhaps it will cover the point. 



The secretary then read the following proposed amendment 

 to article III of the constitution: 



' 'Local or county horticultural societies and kindred organ- 

 izations may become auxiliary to this society by sending three 



