4 PROCEEDINGS. 



In conformity with a provision of the By-Laws of the Society, the Finance Committee 

 submitted the following Schedule of the Property of the Association : — 



Horticultural Hall, in School street, valued at $36,000 GO 



Three Chandeliers in said Hall, 390 GO 



Two Marble Vases, 95 GO 



Two elegant China Vases, presented by Josiah Bradlee, Esq., - - - - 150 00 

 A large quantity of Glass, and other Ware, employed in the exhibition of Fruits 



and Flowers, 900 GO 



Library of the Society, consisting of about three hundred volumes, - - 1,200 00 



Furniture of the Library, and Safe, ...--.-- 300 00 



Appleton Fimd, invested in the Massachusetts Hospital Life Insurance Company, 1,000 00 



Lowell Fund, invested in said Company, 1,000 00 



Lyman Fund, invested in Shares of the Shoe and Leather Dealers' Bank, - 1,000 GO 



S42,035 00 



The only debt of the Society, known to the Committee, is a note secured by mortgage 

 on their real estate, for fifteen thousand dollars, dated May 18, 1844, payable in five years, 

 with interest, at the rate of five per cent per annum, payable half-yearly. 

 (Signed,) For the Finance Committee, 



CHEEVER NEWHALL, Chairman. 



Cheever Newhall, as Chairman of the Finance Committee, delivered to the Treasurer 

 two Certificates of Stock in the Massachusetts Hospital Life Insurance Company, numbered 

 2638 and 2599, for one thousand dollars each. 



Samuel Walker offered the following : — 



Whereas, Ebenezer Wight, Esq., has discharged the duties of Recording Secretary with 

 assiduity and untiring zeal, and until the present season, without compensation or reward^ 

 therefore 



Voted, That the thanks of this Society be presented to our late Recording Secretary, 

 Ebenezer Wight, Esq., for his valuable services. 



Voted, That a Committee of three be appointed by the Chair, to purchase a Gold Pen, 

 a Gold Pencil Case, and an ornamental Inkstand, or any other article more acceptable to 

 Mr. Wight, in value not exceeding fifty dollars; have a suitable inscription engraved 

 thereon, and present the same in behalf of the Society, to our esteemed member, Eben- 

 ezer Wight, Esq., our late Recording Secretary. 



Voted, That the Recording Secretary be requested to furnish Mr. Wight with a copy of 

 the above votes at an early day. 



The Chair appointed Messrs. Samuel Walker, E. M. Richards, and C. M. Hovey, to 

 carry the above mto effect. 



An amendment to the 20th section of the By-Laws of the Society was proposed by 

 Samuel Walker, as follows : — To strike out all after the word " them," in the 22d line 

 from the top, to the end of said section, being the last line on page 9, of the present edition 

 of the By-Laws. 



Voted, That the foregoing amendment be entered on the Journal, to be acted upon at 

 the stated meeting of the Society, in April next. 



The following named gentlemen were proposed by the Executive Committee, for 

 Honorary and Corresponding Membership, and were admitted. 



Honorary. — Baron Justus Liebig ; Dr. Lindley, Secretary of the London Horticultural 

 Society ; Hon. Theodore Freylinghuysen, President of the American Agricultural Associ- 

 ation; Col. Thomas H. Perkins, Brookline, Mass.; John P. Cushing, Esq., Watertown, 

 Mass.; Hon. John Davis, LL. D., Boston; Josiah Bradlee, Esq., Boston; Stephen H. 



