No. L] ANNUAL MEETING. 287 



Committee on experiments and station work : Messrs. Wm, H. 

 Spooner of Boston, T. H. Goodspeed of Athol, N. I. Bowditch 

 of Framingham, S. B. Taft of Uxbridge, Edmund Hersey of 

 Hingham. 



Committee on forestry, roads and roadside improvements : 

 Messrs. Francis H. Appleton of Peabody, J. S. Appleton of Nan- 

 tucket, H. A. Turner of Norwell, E. W. Boise of Blandford, J. 

 W. Gurney of Cummington. 



Committee on institutes and public meetings : Messrs. F. W. 

 Sargent of Amesbury, Edmund Hersey of Hingham, W. B. 

 Barton of Dalton, Heury C. Comins of Northampton, H. H. 

 Goodell of Amherst. 



Which appointments were approved by the Board. 



The secretary read a communication from Mr. William 

 G. Clark on the subject of the use of steam power in 

 agriculture. 



Voted, That the communication be laid on the table, and 

 that the secretary notify Mr. Clark of the action of the 

 Board. 



Second Vice-President Pratt called to the chair. 



Mr. Sessions presented and read an essay on ' ' Massa- 

 chusetts forestry,'' which was accepted and ordered printed. 



Voted, That the essay be referred to the executive com- 

 mittee and the committee on forestry, roads and roadside 

 improvements, sitting jointly, with power to act. 



General Appleton, for the committee appointed at the 

 last annual meeting to devise and prepare for suitable recog- 

 nition of the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the 

 Board, reported the following recommendations : — 



We recommend that the offer of the Massachusetts Horticultural 

 Society of the use of its hall for the meeting be accepted, with 

 thanks. 



That the Hon. George S. Boutwell, who is, by vote of the 

 Board at the annual meeting in January, 1901, to be the guest of 

 honor, be invited to address the Board at such time. 



