6 MASSACHUSETTS HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



The Corresponding Secretary presented a series of documents 

 from the Committee of the Centennial Exhibition at Philadelphia. 

 On motion, President Parkman, Marshall P. Wilder and Benjamin 

 Gr.' Smith were appointed a committee to take the matter into 

 consideration. 



George W. Humphrey, of Dedham, 

 C. G. Pringle, of Charlotte, Vt., 

 Edward Shepard, of Lowell, 

 Dr. Charles W. Swan, of Boston, 

 B. M. Watson, of Plymouth, 

 were elected to membership. 



Adjourned to the fii'st Saturday in June. 



BUSINESS MEETING. 



Saturday, June 5, 1875. 



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

 President Parkman in the chair. 



The President read the following letter : 



Boston, May, 1875. 



To Francis Parkman, 



President of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society. 



Dear Sir: 



I desire to present to the Massachusetts Horticultural Society 

 my Herbarium, containing one hundred and sixteen species and 

 many varieties of North American Filices. 



It is now three years since this Society first conferred on me the 

 privileges of membership, and I have ever been anxious to make 

 some return, that would indicate my high appreciation of what 

 any one might justly regard as a great honor. 



It is, therefore, partly with a view to accomplish something in 

 this direction, and partly to supply a want seriously felt by others 

 as well as myself while studying our native ferns, that I now 

 consummate a long cherished purpose to prepare a collection of 

 American Ferns that might be worthy of acceptance by the 



