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TRANSACTIONS OF THE SOCIETY. 



The Society having, several months since, authorized the President to 

 place £50 sterling in the hands of the Rev. Mr. Colman, for the purpose 

 of purchasing such as are used by various similar societies in England; 

 this sum was promptly remitted, but no medals have yet been received. 



Your Committee deem it important to have the value of the medals 

 agreed upon in time to be published among the Transactions of the Society 

 this year ; they therefore recommend that dies be obtained for stamping 

 medals, of the following materials and value : — 



Society's large gold medal, valued ..... $50 

 " second " " " . . . . .30 



" silver medal, "..... 5 



" " " with heavy gold surface, valued, . . 15 



Appleton gold medal, valued ...... 40 



" silver " " . . . . . .3 



" silver " with heavy gold surface, valued, . . 10 



Your Committee take pleasure in stating, that there is in this city an 

 artist, on whom the Society may rely with great confidence, to execute the 

 work in a style equal to any ever done in this country. They recommend 

 an appropriation of the sum of four hundred dollars for the purpose of pro- 

 curing, with as little delay as possible, two dies for stamping the medals 

 proposed. 



The subject of the " Lowell Medal" has been referred to your Commit- 

 tee, who request further time to consider and report thereon. 



Respectfully submitted, for the Committee, 



CHEEVER NEWHALL, Chairman. 



Accepted, — and the amount of $400 appropriated to procure the dies. 



Ordered, That the foregoing Report be recorded and published in the 

 Transactions of the Society. 



Massachusetts Horticultural Society, 



Boston, March 20th, 1846. 

 To Hon. Samuel Appleton, 



Sir, — I have the pleasure to inform you, that your liberal donation of one 

 thousand dollars, in aid of the objects of the Massachusetts Horticultural 

 Society, has been invested in the Hospital Life Insurance Company, as a 

 permanent fund, the income of which will be dispensed in gold and silver 

 medals, to be denominated the Appleton Medals. Permit me. Sir, in behalf 

 of the Society, to tender you their thanks for this act of munificence, and 

 to assure you, that it will be held in grateful remembrance as a mark of 



