54 TRANSACTIONS OF THE SOCIETY. 



Meeting of the Society, September 14, 1844. 



At a meeting of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, held at their 

 Rooms this morning, the Chairman, in behalf of the Building Committee, 

 placed at the disposal of the Society, certain documents and transactions, 

 accompanied with a plate, upon which was inscribed a descriptive and 

 historical account of the Society ; upon which it was 



Eesohed, That the Society adjourn this meeting to the site of their new 

 building, in School Street, and that the President be requested to perform 

 the duty of laying the corner stone, depositing the plate, documents, &c., 

 and to offer such remarks as he may deem suitable to the occasion. 



The plate was of silver, 8 by 6 inches, and bore the following inscrip- 

 tion : — 



[on the obverse.] 



MASSACHUSETTS HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY, 



Incorporatkd the 12th day of June, A. D. 1829. 



Present number of Members, — Four Hundred and Twenty. 



President. — Marshall P. Wilder. 

 Vice Presidents. — B. V. French, Jona. Winship, Cheever Newhall, E. M. 



Richards. 



Treasurer. — Samuel Walker. 



Corresponding Secretary. — J. E. Teschemacher. 



Recording Secretary. — Ebenezer Wight. 



Professor of Botany and Vegetable Physiology. — John Lewis Russell, A. M. 



Professor of Entomology. — T. W. Harris, M. D. 



Professor of Horticultural Chemistry. — S. L. Dana, M. D. 



Committee on Fruits. — Samuel Walker, chairman ; P. B. Hovey, Jr., 



0. Johnson, S. Pond, J. Lovitt. 2d, L. P. Grosvenor, Jona. Winship, D. 



Haggerston, J. L. L. F. Warren, J. F. Allen, A. D. Williams. 



Committee on Flowers. — Joseph Breck, chairman ; H. W. Button, S. 

 Sweetser, S. R. Johnson, J. Stickney, W. E. Carter, P. Barnes. 



Committee on Vegetables. — J. A. Kenrick, chairman; W. B. Kingsbury, 

 J. H. Billings, S. C. Mann, J. C. Howard, A. BoM'ditch, John Hill. 



Committee on the Library. — C. M. Hovey, chairman ; C. K. Dillaway, 

 F. G. Shaw, J. E. Teschemacher, E. AVight, R. M. Copeland. 



Committee on Synonyms of Fruit. — M. P. Wilder, chairman ; S. Downer, 

 W. Kenrick, B. V. French. 



Executive Committee. — M. P. Wilder, chairman ; Enoch Bartlett, A. 

 Aspinwall, F. W. Macondry, J. J. Low. 



Finance Committee. — E. Vose, chairman; Cheever Newhall, E. M. 

 Richards. 



