146 PROCEEDINGS. 



The Committee of Arrangements were requested to report on the expediency of hold- 

 ing a semi-Annual Exhibition in June. 



BUSINESS MEETING. 



Saturday, April 6, 1850. 



President, Samuel Walker, in the Chair. 



A committee, consisting of Josiah Lovett, Eben Wight, G. R. Russell and W. R. Austin, 

 was appointed by the Chair, to award the Premiums, in accordance with the report of the 

 Committee, March 5. 



On motion, it was 



Voted. That the President be added to the Committee, as chairman. 



Voted, That dollars, agreeably to the Premiums offered in the Report of the Special 



Committee on Gardens, be and the same is hereby appropriated out of the Treasury, for 

 that purpose. 



Voted, That fifty copies of the Report on the Annual Address, be placed in the hands of 

 the Corresponding Secretary, for distribution. 



BUSINESS MEETING. 



Saturday, May 4, 1850. 



President, Samuel Walker, in the Chair. 



A communication on the Curculio, from M. H. Simpson, was received, and referred to 

 the Committee on Publication, 



Thanks of the Society were voted to Mr. Simpson for his Communication. 



A communication was also laid before the Society from C. W. Dabney, a corresponding 

 member at Fayal. 



BUSINESS MEETING. 



Saturday, July 13, 1850. 



President, Samuel Walker, in the Chair. 



A communication, accompanied with a present, was received from Monsieur Tougard, 

 Chevalier of the Legion of Honor, President of Central Society of Horticulture of the 

 Lower Seine, at Rouen, 



Voted, That the thanks of this Society be presented to Mons, Tougard, for his valuable 

 present, and that the Corresponding Secretary communicate the same. 



Voted, That further time be granted to the Committee appointed to select Delegates to 

 attend the Pomological Convention, to be held in Cincinnati, in September next. 



Two letters from Dr. J. Kenicott, of the Grove, Illinois, were received, and read by the 

 Corresponding Secretary. 



BUSINESS MEETING. 



Saturday, July 20, 1850. 

 President, Samuel Walker, in the Chair, 



Communications were received from the New York State Agricultural Society, and from 

 the Chester County Horticultural Society ; for which the thanks of the Society were voted. 



