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tery or of the cost of any columbaria now erected or that may be 

 erected in the future. 



In consideration of the Society being relieved of these obligations 

 it agrees to relinquish all rights to share in the proceeds of the sale 

 of such lands or in the income of any such columbaria. 



On motion of Mr. Bowker it was voted to accept the recommen- 

 dations made in the report of this committee and to authorize the 

 President in the name of the Society to execute and deliver a 

 contract between it and the Proprietors of the Cemetery of Mount 

 Auburn annulling the contract heretofore existing between said 

 corporations, dated December 18, 1858, and amendments thereto, 

 and substituting in place thereof the contract hereby authorized; 

 said last named contract bearing date October 8, 1910, and that 

 the Treasurer be authorized to affix thereto and attest the corpo- 

 rate seal. 



The President appointed Messrs. Pettigrew, Craig, and Parker 

 a committee to present at a future meeting a list of candidates 

 for the various standing committees of the Society for the year 

 1911. 



Mrs. W. E. Hayward of Ipswich, proposed by C. A. Campbell, 

 was duly elected a member of the Society. 



December 10. The following communication from George R. 

 White, Esq., was presented: 



Boston, November 7, 1910. 

 To the Trustees of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society. 

 Gentlemen : 



I desire to increase the amount of the George Robert White Medal of 

 Honor Fund to $5000.00 and therefore offer to the Massachusetts Horti- 

 cultural Society an additional sum of $2500.00 to be invested as stated in 

 1 1 iy previous gift and for the purpose therein set forth. I also desire to 

 incorporate in the conditions for the award of said Medal of Honor the 

 following additions: 



1st. That the Medal may be awarded to the person, firm, or institution 

 whose work for the advancement of horticulture may not have been wholly 

 done in the year in which the award shall be made, but the results of whose 

 work in recent years shall be deemed by the executive management of the 

 Society as worthy of recognition. 



2d. If in any year or in the recent years preceding the time for making 

 the award there appears to have been accomplished no work of a sufficiently 



