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Recording Secretary. — Ebenezer Wight. 



Professor of Botany and Vegetable Physiology. — John Lewis Russell. 



Professor of Entomology. — T. W. Harris. 



Professor of Horticultural Chemistry. — Samuel L. Dana. 



Standin& Committees. 



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

 Johnson, Josiah Lovitt, 2d, Jonathan Winship, David Haggerston, J. F. 

 Allen, George Newhall, A. D. Williams, F. W. Macondry, William 

 Thomas. 



Committee on Flowers. — Joseph Breck, chairman ; H. W. Dutton, Samuel 

 Sweetser, S. R. Johnson, Josiah Stickney, W. E. Carter, Parker Barnes. 



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

 Azell Bowditch, John Hill, J. H. Billings, S. C. Mann, Josiah Newhall. 



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

 Teschemacher, E. Wight, R. M. Copeland, Francis G. Shaw. 



Committee on Synonyms of Fruits. — M. P. Wilder, chairman ; B. V. French, 

 S. Downer, W. Kenrick. 



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

 Aspinwall, J. J. Low, Joseph Balch. 



Finance Committee. — Cheever NeM'hall, chairman; E. M. Richards, 

 George Hallett. 



Meeting of the Society, November 19, 1844. 



The President presented to the Society several copies of impressions 

 taken from the plate which was placed beneath the corner stone of the 

 Society's Hall, in School Street. It was 



Voted, That a bound copy of the same be placed with the Society's val- 

 uable papers ; — 



That a copy be presented to the Antiquarian Society, Worcester, together 

 with copies of the Transactions of this Society ; — 



That a copy be presented to the Historical Society, Boston, with a copy 

 of the Transactions of this Society. 



Two communications were read from Mons. Victor Paquet, correspond- 

 ing member, residing at Paris. The communications were accompanied 

 by two works, by the same gentleman. 



The letter from JMr. Brookhouse, laid over from the last meeting, was 

 taken up, read and passed over to the Committee whose duty it is to at- 

 tend to the subject ; and it was 



Voted, That the sura of two hundred and fifty dollars be paid over to the 

 executor of the late Robert Manning, upon restrictions and constructions 

 of the report, passed at a meeting held Blarch 4, 1843. 



