4 MASSACHUSETTS HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



BUSINESS MEETING. 



Saturday, June 2, 1877. 



An adjourned meeting of the Society was holden at 11 o'clock, 

 President Parkman in the chair. 



The following named persons, having been recommended by the 

 Executive Committee, were duly elected members of the Society : 



Mrs. Samuel P. Burt, of New Bedford, 

 E. L. Beard, of Cambridge, 

 Howard Gray, of Boston. 



Prof. George L. Good ale, of Cambridge, was, upon recom- 

 mendation of the Executive Committee, elected a Corresponding 

 Member of the Society. 



Marshall P. Wilder, after some remarks on the history and work 

 of the American Pomological Society, moved the following vote, 

 which was unanimously passed : 



Voted, That the President appoint a delegation of twenty mem- 

 bers of this Society, to attend the meeting of the American Pomo- 

 logical Societ}^, at Baltimore, in September next, and that the 

 delegation have liberty to add to their numbers, or appoint substi- 

 tutes. 



Meeting dissolved. 



BUSINESS MEETING. 



Saturday, July 7, 1877. 



A duly notified stated meeting of the Society was holden at 11 

 o'clock. President Parkman in the chair. 



On recommendation of the Executive Committee, it was 

 Voted, To appropriate a sum not exceeding three hundred dol- 

 lars, for the expenses of entertainments of the Committee of 

 Arrangements for the current year. 



