PROCEEDINGS. 23 



BUSINESS MEETING. 



Saturday, May 1, 1847. 



President, Marshall P. Wilder, in the Chair. 



In the absence of the Chairman, E. M. Richards for tlie Committee appointed to fix the 

 days of the Annual Exhibition of the Society, reported, that the Committee had decided 

 upon the 22d, 23d and 24th of September next, and it was 



Voted, That the Report be accepted. 



The following gentlemen were elected Life members of the Society : — Jonathan Chap- 

 man, Charles H. Mills, A. W. Thaxter, Thomas Lamb, J. Eliot Thayer, J. W. Blodget, 

 Isaac Babbitt, Thomas P. Cushing, and Otis Everett, Jr., of Boston ; and Joseph Manning, 

 of Medford. 



The following gentlemen were elected Subscription members : — Adolphus Davis, 

 Edward Denny, Thomas T. Bouve, Hezekiah S. Chase, Samuel May, and Louis Decher, 

 of Boston ; H. P. Fairbanks, of Charlestown ; John Quant, and John Thomas, of Brookline ; 

 E. S. Fisher, and Ezra W. Sampson, of Dedham; Thomas Sinclair, of Brighton; Charles 

 E. Grant, and Ralph Crooker, of Roxbury ; and Otis Arthur Gay, of Hingham. 



BUSINESS MEETING. 



Saturday, May 8, 1847. 



President, Marshall P. Wilder, in the Chair. 



The following gentlemen were proposed for Subscription membership : — Albert BuUard, 

 and Thomas R. Foster, of Boston, by Lewis BuUard ; John F. Adams, of Boston, by Eben. 

 Wight ; and George Tyler Bigelow, of Boston, by J. L. L. F. Warren. 



A communication was received from Professor Asa Gray, of Cambridge, accompanied 

 with a copy of his Chloris Boreali-Americana, and also a copy of Mr, Ward's Treatise on 

 tlie Growth of Plants, in Closely Glazed Cases, and it was 



Voted, That the thanks of the Society be presented to Professor Gray, for his liberal 

 donation, and that the Corresponding Secretary be requested to forward him a complimen- 

 tary letter. 



A communication was received from the Antiquarian Society of Worcester, expressing 

 their thanks for a copy of the Transactions of the Society. 



A copy of the Transactions of the Worcester County Horticultural Society was received 

 from George Jaques, Esq. 



Voted, That the thanks of the Society be presented to George Jaques, Esq. 



A letter was received from Mr. James W. Clarkey, demanding the sum of one hundred 

 dollars for damage done to his wife, by falling through the scuttle of the cellar of the 

 Society's Hall. 



Voted, That the President and R. T. Paine, Esq., be appointed a Committee, with full 

 power, to settle the matter, by paying such sum as they may deem expedient. 



BUSINESS MEETING. 



Saturday, May 15, 1847. 



President, Marshall P. Wilder, in the Chair. 



The following gentlemen were proposed for Subscription membership : — Anson Dexter, 

 of Boston, by the President; Henry P. Crapo, of New Bedford, by Joseph Breck; Charles 

 A. Hewins, of Roxbury, by Samuel Walker ; Charles Spring, of Brighton, by E. A. 



