416 ANNUAL REPORT. 



Art. 11. This Constitution may be amended at any annual 

 meeting by a vote of two-thirds of the members present, provided 

 that notice of proposed amendments shall be presented and lay 

 over one day before a vote on the adoption. 



BY-LAWS A3 PROPOSED AT THE ANNUAL MEETING, JANUARY, 1884. 



1st. The terms of all officers of the society shall be one year and 

 until their successors shall be elected and qualified; except a retir- 

 ing secretary, who shall hold his office till the 1st day of July, after 

 the election of his successor, in order that he may officially pre- 

 pare and superintend the publication of the annual report for that 

 year. 



2d. Meetings of the board may be called at any time by the 

 President or Acting President and Secretary, and it shall be their 

 duty to oal' such meetings whenever requested to do so by a ma- 

 jority of the board. 



3d. The annual membership for the previous year shall cease 

 on the first day of the annual meeting, and before the election of 

 officers. 



4th. No person who has not been actively identified with the 

 Society for three years at some time during the period of its exist- 

 ence shall be eligible to the office of President, Vice-President or 

 Secretary. 



The foregoing draught for an amended Constitution and By- 

 Laws was referred to the following committee, to report at next 

 meeting: J. M Underwood, R. J. Mendenhall, Wyman Elliot, A» 

 W. Sias and G. W. Fuller. 



COLONEL ROBERTSON AND DOCTOR WARDER— 

 A COINCIDENCE, 



Forty-two years ago, Col. D. A. Robertson was the editor of the 

 Elevator, a weekly journal published at Cincinnati, devoted to agri- 

 culture, science, political and social economy; and in the eighteenth 

 number, issued March 19th, 1842, he introduced Dr. John A. War- 



