REPORT OF BOARD OF TRUSTEES. 1 1 1 



further consideration. This committee was authorized also to 

 report on the matter of a new floor for the large exhibition hall. 



The following named persons were duly elected to membership 

 in the Society: 



J. F. Flanagan of Newton, proposed by J. K. M. L. Farquhar. 

 A. H. Handley of Newton, 

 Lewis Kennedy Morse of Boston, " 



Frederick R. Galloupe of Lexington, proposed by A. F. Esta- 

 brook. 



Edward J. Halloranof Roxbury, proposed by James H. Bowditch. 



June 30. A communication from Lewis H. Farlow was presented 

 offering to the Society a fund of $2500.00 left by his father, the 

 late John S. Farlow, to the Newton Horticultural Society. Inas- 

 much as the Newton Society is inactive and inoperative Mr. Farlow 

 desires to turn the fund over to the Massachusetts Horticultural 

 Society. The income of this fund is to be expended in prizes and 

 gratuities for pear and foreign grape culture. Mr. Farlow also 

 requests that the fund be so designated as to perpetuate the name 

 of the donor, John S. Farlow of Newton, Massachusetts, (died 

 March 20, 1890) and that of the Newton Horticultural Society. 



On motion of Prof. Sargent it was voted that the generous offer 

 of Mr. Farlow be accepted together with the conditions attending 

 it and the income of the fund devoted to the purposes stated. 



The special committee on the proposed alteration of the Society's 

 building reported through its chairman, President Weld, that it 

 was inadvisable at present to make any change in the interior of 

 the building. 



On motion of Prof. Sargent it was voted that a new floor be laid 

 in the large exhibition hall at an expense not exceeding $2000.00. 

 It was voted also, on motion of Prof. Sargent, that the matter of 

 electrifying the freight elevator and of putting in a passenger ele- 

 vator be referred to the special committee on alteration of the 

 building. 



James G. Freeman of Boston, proposed by Walter Hunnewell, 

 was elected a member of the Societv. 



