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Officers and jStanding Committees, 

 for the year 1870. 



President : 

 James F. C. Hyde of Newton. 



Vice-Presidents : 

 William C. Strong of Brighton. II. H. Hunnewell of Wellesley. 

 Chas. O. Wiiitmoke of Boston. Francis Parkman of Boston. 



Treasurer : 

 Edwin W. Buswell of Boston. 



Corresj)onding Secretary : 

 Edwin W. Buswell of Boston. 



Recording Secretary: 

 Edavard S. Eand, Jr., of Boston. 



Professor of Botany and Vegetable Physiology : 

 John L. Russell of Salem. 



STANDING committees. 



Executive : 

 The President. J. F. C. Hyde, Chairman; the Ex-Presidents, ex officio, 

 Marshall P. Wilder, Joseph S. Cabot, Josiah Stickney, Joseph 

 Breck, Charles M. Hovey; Eben Wight, P. Brown Tlovey, William 

 C. Harding, Fearing Burr. 



For establishing Prizes : 



Chairman of Committee on Fruits, Chairman; Chairmen of Committees 



on Flowers, Vegetables and Gardens; Parker Barnes. 



Finance : 

 Charles O. Whitmore, Chairman; H. PI. Hunnewell, Benj. P. Cheney. 



Library : 



Francis Parkman, Chairman; George W. Pratt, II. Weld Fuller, 



Edward S. Rand, Jr., John Cummings. 



Ornamental Gardening : 



H. Weld Fuller, Chairman; Chairmen of Committees on Fruits, Flowers 

 and Vegetables; II. Ilollis Hunnewell, William R. Austin, F. 

 Lyman Winship. 



