70 MASSACHUSETTS HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Further details will be given at the meeting called to consider 

 this report, at which all members are requested to be present. 

 The meeting will be held at Horticultural Hall, on Saturday, 

 Februar}^ 16, at ten o'clock, a. m. 



Eespectfully submitted, 



Henry P. Walcott, 



James F. C. Hyde, 



Nathaniel T. Kidder, ^ Committee. 



Frank W. Andrews, 



J. D. W. French, 



Augustus Parker, 



Mr. Hyde made a more particular statement of the leases 

 which stood in the way of entire rebuilding, and presented esti- 

 mates of the cost of the alterations recommended by the 

 Committee. 



The report of the Committee was accepted. 



The Secretary read a letter addressed to the President by 

 O. Winthrop Coffin, a member of the Society, suggesting that 

 arrangements should be made for holding the large exhibitions of 

 the Society in connection with the Zoological Garden to be estab- 

 lished by the Boston Society of Natural History at Franklin 

 Park. 



On motion it was voted not to take down the building and 

 rebuild. 



Robert Manning moved a vote that the Society will not sell its 

 estate at present. 



J. D. W. French moved the following amendment: 



That the Committee on Finance be authorized to sell the build- 

 ing and land now owned and occupied by the Massachusetts 

 Horticultural Society for a sum not less than five hundred 

 thousand dollars, provided that that Committee shall, before 

 selling, report a suitable location, to be acted upon b}' the 

 Societ}'. 



After a full discussion b}' a large number of members, Mr. 

 French's amendment was lost b}' a vote of twenty-five in the 

 affirmative to thirty-two in the negative. 



The vote that the Society will not sell its property at present, 

 was then put and carried. 



