12 WORCESTER COUNTY HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. [1898. 



regulations shall be affixed to every volume, and posted in 

 the Library. 



Voted to print the Constitution and By-Laws in the Trans- 

 actions. 



No other business presented it was voted to dissolve. 



A meeting of the Trustees was held immediately upon the 

 dissolution of the society's meeting; President O. B. Hadwen 

 presiding. 



This meeting was called at the request of F. J. Kinney and 

 others who were desirous that the Horticultural Society should 

 be among others who were contributing; works of art to the 

 Worcester Art Museum. 



It was voted to appropriate one hundred and fifty dollars for 

 the purchase of Casts from the Parthenon Frieze. A letter 

 tendering the gift was sent to T, H, Gage, Jr., Secretary of 

 the Worcester Art Museum ; in acknowledgment the following 

 letters were received. 



Worcester Art Museum. 

 Mr. Adin a. Hixon, 



Secretary of the Worcester County Horticultural Society. 

 Dear Sir: — I am in receipt of your letter of Nov. 18, 1897, pre- 

 senting the Worcester Art Museum with a Cast of the Parthenon 

 Frieze. I beg to assure the Horticultural Society of the grateful 

 acceptance of the gift by the Worcester Art Museum, 



You may expect to receive a more formal recognition of gratitude 

 from the Chairman of the Committee on the Museum. 



Very truly, 



T. H. GAGE, Jr., 



Secretary. 

 Nov. 18, 1897. 



Central Church Parsonage. 

 Worcester, Noo. 20, 1897. 

 Mr. Adin A. Hixon, 



Dear Sir: — As Chairman of the Committee on the Museum, the 

 agreeable duty devolves on me of communicating to the Worcester 

 County Horticultural Society the hearty thanks of the Directors of 

 the Worcester Art Museum for their superb gift of Casts from the 

 Parthenon Fiieze. 



No casts are more desirable than these, and they will prove a great 



