294 ANNUAL REPORT. 



ACKNOWLEDGMENT TO PROF. BEAL. 



The Secretary is under obligations to Prof. Wm. J. Beal, Lan- 

 sing, Michigan, Secretary of the American Pomological Society^ 

 for advance sheets of his report of proceedings of the meeting of 

 that society held in Philadelphia last September. This makes it 

 possible to publish in our report of 1884, many useful extracts that 

 ordinarily could only appear a year later. 



