8 MASSACHUSETTS HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



The President, as Chairmau of the Executive Committee, re- 

 ported a recommendation that the following named sums be appro- 

 priated for the year 1878 : 



For Prizes, $4,575 00 



" the Library Committee, ... 225 00 

 " the Committee on Publication and Dis- 

 cussion, 200 00 



" a portrait or bust of the President elect, 200 00 



The President reported the following further action of the 

 Executive Committee : — 



Voted, That the Executive Committee recommend to the Finance 

 Committee that the unexpended balances of the appropriations for 

 the Library, for the years 1875 and 1876, including that of $600 

 for the "Flora Danica," be recognized by the Finance Committee. 



Voted, To recommend to the Society the passage of the follow- 

 ing vote : Voted, That the recent action of the Executive Com- 

 mittee, in the application of unexpended balances of appropriations 

 to the Librar}^, in the j^ears 1875 and 1876, shall not be taken as a 

 precedent, but that all unexpended balances of appropriations for 

 any year, after the payment of all bills contracted in that year, 

 shall revert to the Treasury at the close of the year. 



The vote recommended by the Executive Committee was unani- 

 mously passed. 



The following named gentlemen, having been recommended by 

 the Executive Committee, were on ballot, duly elected members of 

 the Society : 



Eev. Crawford Nightingale, of Dorchester, 



Warren Fenno, of Eevere, 



M. H. Norton, of Boston, 



Daniel Duffley, of Brookline, 



William D. Park, of Boston. 



The following vote, offered by C. M. Atkinson, was unanimously 

 passed : 



Voted, That the report of the Treasurer shall show, in separate 

 items, all expenses incurred often dollars and upwards. 



Adjourned to Saturday, December 1. 



