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quhar stated that the award was recommended in recognition 

 of the important service rendered by Professor Hansen in the 

 introduction and hybridization of new varieties of economic 

 plants and fruits suitable for cultivation in the northwestern 

 states. It was voted to accept the report of this committee. 



The following named persons, recommended by Professor 

 Sargent, were duly elected to Corresponding Membership in the 

 Society: 



Isaac Bayley Balfour, Regius Keeper, Royal Botanic Garden, 

 Edinburgh, Scotland. 



Desire Bois, Editor Revue Horticole, Paris, France. 



Leon Chenault, Orleans, France. 



William C. Egan, Highland Park, Illinois. 



Bertrand H. Farr, Wyomissing, Pennsylvania. 



Professor Niels Ebbesen Hansen, Brookings, South Dakota. 



Charles L. Hutchinson, Chicago, Illinois. 



Mrs. Francis King, Alma, Michigan. 



J. Horace McFarland, Harrisburg, Pennsyh^ania. 



Doctor George T. Moore, Director Missouri Botanical Garden, 

 Saint Louis, Missouri. 



Doctor Walter Van Fleet, Bureau of Plant Industry, Washing- 

 ton, D. C. 



F. Gomer Waterer, Bagshot, Surrey, England. 



January 18. On call of the President a special meeting of the 

 Board of Trustees was held this day. 



The President stated that some adverse criticism had been made 

 recently because of the action of the Society in eliminating the 

 money prizes from the Schedule of Prizes and Exhibitions for the 

 year 1918 which had culminated in a communication from the 

 Gardeners' and Florists' Club of Boston requesting that a special 

 meeting of the Society be called to consider the desirability of 

 eliminating the money prizes for the year 1918. 



After ai general discussion of the subject it was voted to approve 

 the decision of the Advisory Committee in omitting the money 

 prizes for the year. 



In regard to the communication from the Gardeners' and Flor- 

 ists' Club it was voted to appoint a committee consisting of Messrs. 



