142 MASSACHUSETTS IIOUTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Lectures aiul Discussions to give an impulse to our scientific and 

 literary operations. 



As Librarian, I have nothing to add to the report of the Library 

 Committee, unless it may be a gratifying increase of the manifest 

 interest in our valuable works. As Superintendent, I may remark 

 the same of a growing social intercourse which begets a propor- 

 tionate ability to promote the objects we have in view. 



"While I rejoice with you who avail yourselves of the privileges 

 of membership, I lament the apathy which still prevails, and crops 

 out from time to time in the list of "discontinued," My desire is to 

 aid in your increase of interest by any means at my command ; for 

 it requires warm and earnest work to keep the Society up to its 

 standard of usefulness. 



To those of you who have so constantly visited these rooms, I 

 express the hope that you have not come in vain. May your 

 number increase! for thereby we hope to promote the value of our 

 association to its members. Our rooms are constantly open, the 

 library at your command, and a welcome for you all. The general 

 good-will which pervades our membership is a sure guaranty of 

 future prosperity, and a source of happiness. May it never be less! 



E. W. BuswELL, Treasurer. 

 Boston, Jan. 13, 1872. 



