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mously adopted. The vote was then taken on the amendments 

 relathig to the Committee of Arrangements, which were also 

 unanimously adopted. 



On motion of Edward L. Beard, it was voted that the Com- 

 mittee on Establishing Prizes report on the first Saturday in 

 August a list of prizes for Bulbs at the next Spring Exhibition. 



It was alsp voted that the Executive Committee consider the 

 subject of offering prizes for the best reports of Awarding Com- 

 mittees, agreeably to the rules of the State Board of Agriculture. 



J. Wesley Barber, of Newton, and 



Oliver Ditson, of Boston, 

 having been recommended by the Executive Committee as mem- 

 bers of the Society, were, on ballot, duly elected. 



Adjourned to Saturday, August 1. 



BUSINESS MEETING. 



Saturday, August 1, 1885. 

 An adjourned meeting of the Society was holden at 11 o'clock, 

 the President, John B. Moore, in the chair. 



E. W. Wood, Chairman of the Committee on Establishing Prizes, 

 reported a list of prizes for bulbs at the exhibitions of the Society 

 in February and March, 1886, which was accepted, and referred 

 to the Committee on Publication. 



The President, as Chairman of the Executive Committee, re- 

 ported that that Committee had approved the appropriation of a 

 sum not exceeding one hundred dollars for the expenses of the 

 Committee on the meeting of the American Forestry Congress. 



The President also reported, from the same Committee, a recom- 

 mendation that the Society offer three prizes of $10, $8, and $6, 

 for the best reports of Awarding Committees, agreeably to the rules 

 of the State Board of Agriculture. The report was accepted, and 

 it was voted that the prizes be offered. 



