REPORT OF THE SECRETARY AND LIBRARIAN FOR 

 THE YEAR 1907. 



The few items deemed worthy of record in the annual report 

 of the Secretary and Librarian do not present an adequate summary 

 of the business of these two offices. The usual routine of daily 

 duties, the many requests for information on matters of horticul- 

 tural interest, both in person and by correspondence, and the 

 attention given to the numerous details connected with the various 

 exhibitions comprise a multitude of minor matters which are not of 

 sufficient importance to claim notice in this report but are the 

 things that make up a great part of the year's work. 



To these duties have been added since January 15 the general 

 superintendence of the Society's building in accordance with the 

 administrative changes adopted by the Board of Trustees early 

 in the present year. 



Thirteen exlaibitions have been held during the year. The 

 public interest in them has been satisfactorily maintained and from 

 a horticultural point of view they have been fully up to the Society's 

 high standard of excellence. 



The continuing of the Saturday exliibitions over Sunday has met 

 with an appreciative response on the part of the public and has 

 been a successful innovation, the attendance having been much 

 larger than on Saturday. 



The two meetings of the Society recjuired by the By-laws, the 

 Inaugural Meeting in January and the Annual Meeting in Novem- 

 ber, have been duly held and also ten meetings for lecture and 

 discussion in January, February, and ISIarch. 



The publications of the year and the dates of issue are as follows : 



January 24. Schedule of Prizes and Exliibitions, 4S pages. 



July 16. Transactions, 1906, Part 2, pages 85-273 and Plates 

 1-11.^ 



October 7. Transactions, 1907, Part I, pages 1-1.36. 



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