PROCEEDINGS. 151 



BUSINESS MEETING. 



Saturday, September 21, 1850. 



President, Samuel Walker, in the Chair. 



The thanks of the Society were voted to the Committee of Arrangements, for the very 

 acceptable manner in which they performed their duties. 



Voted, That a Committee be appointed to cause an inventory to be made of the Glass 

 Ware, Baskets, &c., belonging to the Society, and that no person be allov?ed to carry any 

 article of Furniture away from the Hall. 



Messrs. Breck, C. M. Hovey, and Josiah Lovett, were appointed as the Committee. 



Voted, That, hereafter, the Society shall not loan any part of its Furniture, Glass Ware, 

 Baskets, &c. 



Messrs. Josiah Lovett, Joseph Breck, and Eben Wight, were appointed a Committee to 

 nominate a list of officers for the ensuing year. 



BUSINESS MEETING. 



Saturday, October 5, 1850. 

 President, Samuel Walker, in the Chair. 



The following gentlemen, were elected to fill the oflBces in the Society for the ensuing 

 year : — 



President — Samuel Walker. 



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



Treasurer — William R. Austin. 



Corresponding Secretary — Eben Wight. 



Recording Secretary — Daniel Leach. 



Professor of Botany and Vegetable Physiology — John Lewis Russell. 



Professor of Entomology — T. W. Harris. 



Professor of Horticultural Chemistry — E. N. Horsford. 



standing committees. 



On Fruits — J. S. Cabot, Chairman; Eben Wight, Josiah Lovett, Joseph Breck, C. 

 M. Hovey, J. S. Sleeper, W. C. Strong. 



On Plants and Flowers — David Haggerston, Chairman ; A. McLennan, E. A. Story, 

 F. L. Winship, P. Barnes, H. W. Dutton, Azell Bowditch. 



On Vegetables — A. D. Williams, Jr., Chairman; James Nugent, S. W. Cole, Augustus 

 Parker, J. B. Moore, A. D. Williams, D. T. Curtis. 



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

 George Wilson. 



On Synonymes of Fruits — M. P. Wilder, Chairman ; P. B. Hovey, R. Manning, Josiah 

 Lovett, J. S. Cabot. 



Executive Committee — S. Walker, Chairman ; W. R. Austin, M. P. Wilder, E. M. 

 Richards, Otis Johnson. 



For Establishing Premiums — J. S. Cabot, Chairman ; D. Haggerston, A. D. Weld, Josiah 

 Lovett, P, B. Hovey. 



On Finance — Marshall P. Wilder, Chairman; Josiah Stickney, Otis Johnson, 



On Pubticition — Eben Wight, Chairman ; Josiah Lovett, Joseph Breck, Daniel Leach, 

 J. S. Cabot, D. Haggerston, A. D. Weld. 



On Gardens — Joseph S. Cabot, Chairman; Joseph Breck, W. R. Austin, A. D. Weld, 

 Josiah Lovett. 



The thanks of the Society were voted to the American Institute, for a copy of their Jour- 

 nal. 



