156 MASSACHUSETTS HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



BUSINESS MEETING. 



Saturday, August 3, 1889. 



Au adjourned meeting of the Society was holden at 11 o' clocks 

 Vice-President Charles H. B. Breck, in the chair. 



The Chairman announced the Committee to nominate Officers 

 and Standing Committees of the Society for the. year 1890, which 

 had been appointed by President Walcott, agreeably to the Con- 

 stitution and By-Laws, previously to his departure for Europe, as 

 follows : — 



William C. Strong, Chairman. 

 William H. Spooner, Samuel Hartwell, 



John G. Barker, Jackson Dawson, 



John C. Hovey, Nathaniel T. Kidder, 



Mr. Spooner declined to serve on the Committee, and it was 

 voted that he be excused. 



On motion of Robert Manning it was unanimously 

 Voted^ That the Chairman of the meeting be authorized to fill 

 any vacancy in the Committee. 



The Chair appointed Charles N. Brackett to fill the vacancy 

 caused by Mr. Spooner's declination. 



The Secretary read the following letter. 



Salem, July 29, 1889. 

 Dear Mr. Manning : 



Under the will of J. L. Russell, one thousand dollars is left to 

 the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, " as a fund, the interest 

 of which shall be paid annually to some competent person, who 

 shall deliver a lecture on the latest discoveries of the connection 

 of the Fungi with Horticulture." I expect to be able to pay this 

 sum over shortly, and would like the Society to take some action 

 in regard to accepting the same. 



Yours truly, 



T. F. Hunt. 



On motion of Joseph H. Woodford, it was unanimously 

 Voted., That the bequest be accepted, and that it be known 

 in the annals of the Society as the "John Lewis Russell Fund," 

 and that it be devoted to the purpose for which Professor Russell 

 bequeathed it. 



