AT^I^UAL MEETIl^G. 



In accordance with the provisions of chapter IV. of the 

 by-laws, the Board met at the office of the secretary, in 

 Boston, on Tuesday, Jan. 13, 1903, at 11 o'clock a.m., it 

 being the Tuesday preceding the second Wednesday of Janu- 

 ary. The Board was called to order by Secretary Stockwell, 

 who, in the absence of a presiding officer, invited Mr. W. 

 A. Kilbourn, chairman of the executive committee, to take 

 the chair. 



Present: Messrs. Allen, Anderson, F. H. Appleton, J. S. 

 Appleton, Avery, Barton, Boise, Bowditch, Brad way, Brew- 

 ster, Bursley, Clark, Comins, Damon, Danforth, Ellsworth, 

 Gurney, Hersey, Jewett, Kilbourn, Lyman, Peters, Reed, 

 Richardson, Sargent, Sessions, Smith, Spooner, Stockwell, 

 Thayer, Turner and Wellington. 



Gen. F. H. Appleton, senate chairman of the committee 

 on agriculture of the Leoislature, o-ave notice of a hearino- to 

 be held by that committee at 12 m. Wednesday, to consider 

 the subject of the foot and mouth disease among cattle, and 

 invited the Board to appear as a body or by committee at 

 that hearing. The executive committee was by vote author- 

 ized to represent the Board in the matter. 



The report of the committee on Massachusetts Agricultural 

 College, on the matter of producing vaccine lymph at the 

 said college, referred to this committee at the special meet- 

 ing of the Board on July ^2^, 1902, was presented and read ; 

 and after brief discussion, it was 



Voted, That the report of the committee be accepted and 

 adopted, and transmitted to the General Court with the 

 recommendation that an appropriation be made for the 

 purpose. 



