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sponsible. The committee would therefore recommend that the salary of 

 the Treasurer should be increased, and although the fidelity and integrity of 

 the present officer is undoubted, yet, that it would be expedient, toith increas- 

 ed remuneration for his services, that the Treasurer hereafter should be re- 

 quired to give bonds to the Society in such sums as may be deemed expe- 

 dient. 



Marshall P. Wilder, ? p^^^^^ Committee. 



JOSIAH StICKNEY, ) 



The report of the committee, relative to the increase of salaries, was re- 

 ferred to the Executive Committee. 



The Executive Committee reported that they had approved of the sched- 

 ule of prizes for 1852, offered by the committee for establishing premiums. 



The Executive Committee reported that they had approved of the addi- 

 tional appropriation of $120 00 for premiums for 1852. 



Mr. C. M. Hovey, from the committee, reported that it was expedient 

 that the Society should procure a marble bust of the late Theodore Lyman, 

 to be placed in the Library or IlalL The report was accepted and the 

 ■5ame committee authorized to procure the bust. 



Voted, that the reports of the committees awarding premiums for 1851, 

 and the schedule of premiums for 1852, be printed for the use of the mem- 

 bers. 



The following gentlemen were chosen a Committee of Arrangements for 

 the Annual Exhibition for 1852 : — 



Jos. Breck, chairman, W. R. Austin, E. Wight, Jos. Lovett, E. A. Story, 

 O. Johnson, C. M. Hovey, P. B. Hovey, Jr., D. Haggerston, L. Winship, 

 A. McLennan, A. Bowditch, J. S. Sleeper. The committee were request- 

 ed to appoint the days of exhibition and report to the Society. 



Dr. Samuel Kneeland, Jr., Boston, R. G. Bell, Lowell, and Dr. K. Lathrop, 

 West Roxbury, were admitted members. 



Adjourned one week to January 10th. 



The following is the schedule of premiums for 1852, approved by the 

 Executive Committee : — 



LIST OF PREMIUMS FOR 1852. 



Amount appropriated, Twenty-two Hundred Dollars. 



PROSPECTIVE PRIZES. 



For objects to be originated subsequent to A. D. 1846, and which, qfk:r 

 a trial of Jive years, shall be deemed equal, or superior, in quality and other 

 characteristics, to any now extant. 



For the best seedling Pear, the Society's large Gold Medal, valued at $60 00 

 " " '• " Apple, " " " " 



" " " " Hardy Grape, " " " . 



" " " " Plum, the Appleton Gold Medal, 

 " " " « Cherry, the Lowell Gold Medal, 

 " " " " Tree Pffionia, the Appleton Gold Medal, 

 " " " " Herbaceous Pseonia, the Lowell Gold Medal 

 " " " '' Potato, the Society's large Gold Medal, 



