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photographs were the property of the Arnold Arboretum and were 

 made by Mr. E. II. Wilson, the head of the Arboretum Botanical 

 Expedition to central and western China (hiring- the years 1907-08. 

 The photographs were of unusual excellence and attracted much 

 attention. The Society's Gold Medal was awarded Mr. Wilson 

 in recognition of the value of his work. 



Two noteworthy additions to the list of special prize funds of 

 the Society have been made (hiring the year. 



The first was the gift of $5000.00 by George Robert White of 

 Boston tor the establishment of the George Robert White Medal 

 of Honor Fund, the income of which is to be expended annually 

 for a substantial gold medal to be awarded to the man or woman, 

 commercial firm, or institution that has done the most during the 

 year or in recent years for the advancement of horticulture in its 

 broadest sense. 



The other addition was the transfer to the Society by Mr. Lewis 

 H. Farlow of the fund bequeathed to the Newton Horticultural 

 Society by the late John S. Farlow amounting to $2882.87. Inas- 

 much as the Newton Society is not now in operation Mr. Farlow 

 has turned the fund over to the Massachusetts Society with the 

 condition that the income is to be expended in prizes and gratuities 

 for pear and foreign grape culture. 



The publications of the year and the dates of issue areas follow: 



May IS. Transactions, 1901), Part 2, pp. 153 303 and plates 

 1 and 2. 



August 18. Transactions, 1910, Part 1, pp. 1-97. 



The Library. 



The need of a new catalogue of the library to which attention 

 has been called in the recent reports of the Librarian has at last 

 assumed material form and work upon it has been in progress dur- 

 ing the greater part of the present year. The plan adopted is that 

 of a classified list based upon the present arrangement of the library 

 followed by a very full alphabetical index of authors and subjects. 

 In this index all the publications of an author will be given under 

 the author's name, arranged chronologically in abbreviated form, 



