140 PROCEEDINGS. 



BUSINESS MEETING. 



. Saturday, February 9, 1850. 

 President, Samuel Walker, in the Chair. 



The Committee appointed to settle with Mount Auburn Cemetery, made the following 

 Report : — 



Total amount of sales, S14,568 28 



Expenses deducted, 1,400 00 



Net amount, S13,168 28 



Massachusetts Horticultural Society's proportion of net proceeds, one quarter, $3,292 07, 

 which sum has been paid into the hands of the Treasurer. 



The Report was accepted. 



Packages of Seeds, from C. W. Dabney, of Fayal, and Capt. Page Brewer, of Boston, 

 were received and placed in the hands of the Chairman of the Committee on Flowers, for 

 distribution. 



Voted, That the thanks of the Society be presented to Messrs. Dabney and Brewer for 

 their donations. 



BUSINESS MEETING. 



Saturday, February 23, 1850. 



President, Samuel Walker, in the Chair. 



The Chairman of the Committee on Flowers reported, that the Seeds placed in his 

 hands at the last meeling, had been put up in twelve separate lots, for distribution among 

 the members. 



Letters from Gen. Z. Taylor, President of the United States, and Rev. George Putnam, 

 honorary members, were received ; also from J. J. Thomas, Dr. Wendell, S. B. Parsons, 

 Dr. J. A. Kenicott, F. R. Elliot, and C. Downing, corresponding members, acknowledging 

 their election. 



BUSINESS MEETING. 



Saturday, March 9, 1850. 



President, Samuel Walker, in the Chair. 



The Committee to whom was referred the President's Address, of January 5, made the 

 following Report, which was accepted : — 



The special Committee, to whom the anniversary address of the President of the Society 

 was referred, for the purpose of considering the several recommendations therein contained, 

 in view of the action of the Society in relation thereto beg leave to report, that they have 

 attended to the duty imposed on them, as far as time and circumstances would permit, and 

 now submit the results of their deliberations and inquiry. 



The suggestions contained in the address alluded to, are entitled to the favorable 

 consideration of the Society, not only as the recommendations of high official station, but 

 as the conclusions of a sound judgment, active zeal, cultivated taste, and liberal spirit, 

 long displayed in promoting its various interests ; and on these accounts, as well as for 

 tlieir practical value, commended themselves to your Committee. 



That favorable results have attended the efforts of this Society, in promoting a taste for 

 Horticultural Science, and a love for Horticultural pursuits, cannot, with truth, be gainsayed. 

 By its weekly exhibition, it has brought to the knowledge of its members and the public, 



