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Committee were further charged to procure another die for a Medal, for the Society, but, 

 at the request of the Executive Committee, have deferred further action, until otherwise 

 instructed by a vote of the Society. 



All which is respectfully submitted. 



The report was accepted, and it was 



Voted, That the President of the Society, and the members of the Medal Committee, be 

 presented with a copy of each Medal executed in bronze. 



The Committee to nominate a list of Officers for the year ensuing, reported that they 

 had attended to the duty assigned them — when the Annual Election took place, and the 

 following persons were unaniinously elected : — 



President — Samuel Walker. 



Vice Presidents — B. V. French, Cheever Newhall, E. M. Richards, J. S. Cabot. 



Treasurer — F. W. Macondray. 



Corresponding Secretary — Eben Wight. 



Recording Secretary — E. C. R. Walker. 



Professor of Botany and Vegetable Physiology — J. L. Russell, A. M. 



Professor of Entomology — T. W. Harris, M. D. 



Professor of Horticultural Chemistry — E. N. Horsford. 



STANDING COMMITTEES. 



On Fruits — Y. W. Macondray, Chairman; P. B. Hovey, Jr., J. S. Cabot, Eben Wight, 

 Josiah Lovett, J. Breck, R. Manning. 



On Plants and Flowers — David Haggerston, Chairman; A. McLennan, William B. 

 Richards, E. A. Story, J. Cadness, F. L. Winship, E. C. R. Walker. 



On Vegetables — A. D. Williams, Jr., Chairman; W. B. Kingsbury, J. Nugent, A. Bow- 

 ditch, A. D. Weld, S. W. Cole, George Pierce. 



On the Library — C. M. Hovey, Chairman ; H. W. Dutton, J. Breck, W. B. Richards, R. 

 M. Copeland, Librarian. 



On Synonymes of Fruits — M. P. Wilder, Chairman ; C. M. Hovey, J. S. Cabot, R. 

 Maiming, F. W. Macondray. 



Executive Committee — S. Walker, Chairman ; F. W. Macondray, M. P. Wilder, E. M. 

 Richards, 0. Johnson. 



For Establishing Premiums — F. W. Macondray, Chairman; D. Haggerston, A. D. Will- 

 iams, C. M. Hovey, J. Lovett, 2d. 



On Finance — M. P. Wilder, Chairman ; J. Stickney, 0. Johnson. 



On Publication — Eben Wight, Chairman ; C. K. Dillaway, J. Lovett, 2d, E. C. R. 

 Walker, F. W. Macondray, D. Haggerston, A. D. Williams, Jr. 



BUSINESS MEETING. 



Saturday, October 21, 1848. 

 President, Marshall P. Wilder, in the Chair, 



A letter from Edward Bartlett, Esq., accompanied with seeds of an Ornamental Tree, 

 was laid before the Society. Whereupon it was 



Voted, That the thanks of the Society be presented to Mr. Bartlett. 

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