CORRESPONDING MEMBERS — PRESIDING OFFICER. 11 



Robert W. Furnas, Brownsville, Neb. 



Thomas A. Allen, Nebraska. 



Dr. Charles C. Hamilton, Cornwallis, Nova Scotia. 



Rev. Robert Burnet, Hamilton, Ontario. 



William Robinson, London. 



Shirley Hibberd, " 



William Paul, Waltham Cross, London. 



Rev. H. Honywood Dombrain, Ashford, Kent, England. 



Rev. S. Reynolds Hole, Newark, England. 



Fisher Holmes, London. 



Rev. Rushton Radclyffe, London. 



B. S. Williams, HoUoway, London. 



Anthony Waterer, Knapp Hill, Woking, Surrey, England. 



Edwin W. Buswell, Treasurer, presented his annual report, 

 which was accepted and referred to the Committee on Publication . 

 Adjourned to the first Saturday in Februar3^ 



MEETING FOR DISCUSSION. 



Immediately on the adjournment of the business meeting, W. C. 

 Strong, Chairman of the Committee on Publication and Discussion, 

 announced a meeting for discussion on the cultivation of the Azalea 

 Indica, to be opened by a paper by Marshall P. Wilder ; but before 

 the commencement some debate took place as to the proper officer 

 to preside at the meeting ; President Parkman, E. S. Rand, Jr., E. 

 W. Buswell, and others, deeming it a meeting of the Committee 

 on Publication and Discussion, and therefore to be presided over 

 by the chairman of that committee, while Messrs. Strong, Charles 

 M. Hovey, John B. Moore, and others, thought it proper that the 

 President should preside. It was unanimously agreed that the 

 assembly was not a meeting within the meaning of the By-Laws, 

 and that no business could be legally transacted. Mr. Strong 

 took the ground that these public discussions were not to be 

 regarded merely as meetings of a Committee, but rather as of the 

 Society, and that it was the duty of the President, b}' virtue of 

 his office, to act as presiding officer. On motion of Mr. Strong it 



