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OFFICERS AND STANDING COMxAIlTTEES FOR 1872. 



President. 

 WILLIAM C. STRONG of Brighton. » 



Vice-Presidents. 



CHARLES O. WmTMORE of Boston. FRANCIS PARKMAN of Boston. 



H. HOLLIS HUNNEWELL of Wellesley. P. BROWN HOVBY of Cambridge. 



Treasurer. 

 EDWIN W. BUSWELL of Boston. 



Corresponding Secretary. 



EDWIN W. BUSWELL of Boston. 



Recording Secretary. 



EDWARD S. RAND, Jun., of Boston. 



Professor of Botany and Vegetable Physiology. 



JOHN L. RUSSELL of Salem. 



STANDING COMMITTEES. 



* Executive. 



The President, WILLIAM C. STRONG, Chairman. 



The Ex-Presidents, ex officio, MARSHALL P. WILDER, JOSEPH S. CABOT, 



JOSIAH STICKNEY, JOSEPH BRECK, CHARLES M. HOVEY, 



JAMES F. C. HYDE. 



FEARING BURR. D. T. CURTIS. HERVEY DAVIS. GEORGE CRAFT. 



For Establishing Prizes. 



CHAIRMAN OF COMMITTEE ON FRUITS, Chairman. 



CHAIRMEN OF COMMITTEES ON FLOWERS, VEGETABLES, AND GARDENS. 



CHARLES 8. SARGENT. 



