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TRANSACTIONS OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY 



system of national highways should supply the 

 main lines. 



Mr. Blaney reported for the tellers upon the 

 votes passed by mail ballot of the society. 



December 7, 1918. Special meeting, Hotel 

 Harrington, Washington, D. C. 



Present: Messrs. Brett, Brinckerhoff, Cap- 

 arn, Child, Miss Coffin, Messrs. Comey, Cook, 

 Cox, Dawson, DeForest, Desmond, Geiffert, 

 Gibbs, Greenleaf, Hall, Hare, Herminghaus, 

 Hubbard, Kellaway, Kruse, Langdon, Lowrie, 

 McCrary, Morell, Nason, Nichols, Nicolet, 

 Nolen, F. L. Olmsted, Outhet, Parce, Parker, 

 T. G. Phillips, W. L. Phillips, Pilat, Pray, 

 Pond, Ramsdell, Taylor, Vitale. Wheelwright, 

 Whiting, Wilcox, Wyman. Guests: Mrs. Fred- 

 erick L. Olmsted, Jr., Mr. W. B. Monroe, Mr. 

 H. L. Flint. 



This meeting was undoubtedly the most 

 largely attended and most enthusiastic of any 

 gathering in the history of the society. The 

 most important matters discussed at the busi- 

 ness session were the following: 



Question of accepting the invitation to join 

 the corporation known as the "Wild Gardens of 

 Acadia," the purpose of which is to conserve 

 and beautify a tract of land in Mt. Desert, 

 Maine. 



A proposal to ofifer a medal of award in 

 landscape architecture for meritorious work, 

 presented for the annual exhibition at Archi- 

 tectural League of New York. Professor Pray 

 presented for discussion the proposal by Mr. 

 Vitale for the establishment of a medal in 

 landscape architecture to be awarded at the 

 annual exhibition of the Architectural League 

 of New York and read extracts from corre- 

 spondence from Mr. Vitale covering this mat- 

 ter. Discussion elicited from Mr. Vitale the 

 following statements: 



First. That while the Architectural League 

 of New York is a local institution, its annual 

 exhibition is national in character and open to 

 all artists in the country, whether they are 

 members of the league or not. 



Second. That the award of the medal would 

 be made by the landscape architects, mem- 

 bers of the jury. 



Third. That the three existing medals in 

 painting, sculpture and architecture are offered 

 by the league. Up to three or four years ago 

 the medal in architecture was offered by the 

 N. Y. Chapter of the A. I. A. 



Fourth. That the cost of maintaining the 

 prize which the A. S. L. A. might eventually 

 have to defray is about $15 per medal. 



The principal objections to the project as 

 proposed were voiced by Mr. F. L. Olmsted 

 as follows: 



First. That it seemed unwise for the A. S. 

 L. A. as a national organization to be re- 

 sponsible for a prize to be awarded by a local 

 institution. That the N. Y. Chapter of the 

 A. S. L. A. might more appropriately be the 

 sponsor of such prize. 



Second. That the cost of the medal be de- 

 frayed by the league under the same arrange- 

 ment made for the other medals. 



It was voted that the question be referred 

 to the full consideration of the Board of Trus- 

 tees in the hope that some satisfactory ar- 

 rangement might be devised. 



Committee on Exhibitions: The Committee 

 on Exhibitions, Mr. John Noyes, of St. Louis, 

 chairman, reported to the Board by letter that 

 owing to the war conditions, the report dating 

 back some months, it had seemed advisable to 

 the committee to delay action, but while the 

 war is not yet ended, it is the opinion of the 

 Board that the Committee on Exhibitions 

 should be immediately informed that condi- 

 tions now favor some form of action on the 

 part of this committee. 



The president announced that the Board of 

 Trustees had that morning approved the Con- 

 stitution and By-laws of the Provisional Pa- 

 cific Coast Chapter, making the fifth chapter 

 in the society. 



He also announced that the board had pro- 

 posed to reorganize by recommending to the 

 membership the amendment of the society By- 

 laws to provide for increasing the number of 

 the members of the board from seven to nine; 

 of these nine, one to be from each chapter, 

 the other four to be members at large, so far 

 as may be necessary, the board also has pow- 

 er to vote by proxy. On motion duly made 

 and seconded it was 



Voted: To enlarge the Board of Trustees as 

 above outlined. 



The president reported the action of the 

 Board of Trustees in unanimously voting to 

 recommend to the society the formal adoption 

 of the Code of Plant Names, which was duly 

 moved and carried. He then read a letter from 

 Mr. DeForest reporting on the Conference on 

 Reconstruction in Rochester November 20 and 

 23, 1918. Mr. DeForest was one of the dele- 

 gates appointed to represent the society. 



Mr. Caparn offered a resolution which after 

 some discussion was carried by the meeting, 

 copies to be sent to the membership for vote, 

 as follows: 



