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Smith, Esq., President of the Rhode Island Horticultural Society; A. S. Monson, M. D., 

 President of the New Haven Horticultural Society. 



Corresponding. — Professor Asa Gray, Cambridge ; Professor E. N. Horsford, do. ; Henry 

 Colman, Esq. ; Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, Editor of the Western Farmer and Gardener ; 

 A. B. Allen, Esq., Editor of the American Agriculturist, N. Y. ; Luther Tucker, Esq., 

 Editor of the Cultivator, Albany; Thomas Rivers, Esq., Sawbridgeworth, England; M. 

 Laffay, Belleveu, near Paris, France ; Robert Buist, Esq., Philadelphia; J. B. Russell, Esq., 

 Cincinnati, Ohio; William D. Brinckle, M. D., Philadelphia; Capt. James T. Gerry, U.S. 

 Navy ; Hon. George Lunt, Newburyport; Edmund Beck, Esq., Worton College, Isleworth, 

 near London; C. Mackintosh, Esq., Dalkeith Palace, near Edinburgh; Joseph Paxton, 

 Esq., Chatsworth England; R. Glendenning, Esq., Chiswick, near London. 



BUSINESS MEETING. 



Saturday, January 9, 1847. 

 President, Marshall P. Wilder, in the Chair. 

 The following was offered by the Executive Committee ; — 



Whereas, the Committee for Establishing Premiums has submitted a list to the Executive 

 Committee, not in accordance, in some respects with the appropriation, and whereas, 

 the offering of premiums for large designs, such as Temples, Pagodas. &c., is deemed not 

 to be in good taste, but calculated to encourage the skill of the Architect rather than that of 

 the Florist, therefore 



Voted, That in conformity with a desire expressed by the Committee for Establishing 

 Premiums, the particular appropriation for Designs and Decorations be dispensed with, and 

 that the following apportionment to the respective departments be made, instead of that 

 ordered by the vote of the 26th of December last, viz. : — 



Special Prize List for Fruits, Si 00 00 



For Fruits, - - - 450 00 



For Decorations, Plants and Flowers, 650 00 



For Vegetables, 150 00 



^1,350 00 



Voted, That the foregoing be accepted. 



The Committee appointed to examine the accounts of the Mount Auburn Cemetery, 

 reported. 



That they had attended to that duty, and had received of George W. Bond, Esq., the 

 Treasurer of said Association, the sum of three thousand two hundred and thirtythree 

 dollars and fortyone cents, being the Society's proportion of the net receipts for the year 

 ending December 31, 1846. 



The Committee also report, that they have paid this sum into the Treasury. 



(Signed,) MARSHALL P. WILDER, for the Committee. 



The Executive Committee reported, verbally, that they had renewedly made claim for 

 the Society's proportion of the amount received for private interments at Mount Auburn. 



Voted, That a Committee of three be appointed, at large, to nominate thirteen persons to 

 act as a Committee of Arrangements to superintend the annual exhibition. 



Messrs. David Haggerston, Otis Johnson, and Samuel Walker, were appointed that 

 Committee. 



Voted, That the Lowell Medals shall correspond, in size and value, with the Appleton, 

 and that the Committee on Medals be, and hereby are, authorised and instructed, to pro- 

 cure suitable dies for this purpose. 



On motion of Cheever Newhall, it was 



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