244 MASSACHUSETTS HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Joseph II. Woodford read a communication in regard to the 

 funds presented to the Society b}^ Samuel Appleton, John A. 

 Lowell, Theodore Lyraau, Josiah Bradlee, Benjamin V. French, 

 H. II. Ilunnewell, Dr. William J. Walker, Josiah Stickney, and 

 Levi Whitcomb, and offered the following votes : 



Voted, That the Treasurer of this Society shall open an account 

 with each and every permanent fund (describing the fund) on the 

 books kept by him, crediting each fund with a fair rate of interest, 

 to be determined by the Finance Committee annually, and charging 

 said incomes with any awards made in prizes by the Committees 

 established for awarding prizes. 



Voted, That the Committee for Establishing Prizes be instructed 

 to apportion these prizes according to the terms of the liequests, 

 and that the prizes be offered under their proper headings in the 

 next and succeeding Schedules of Prizes of this Society. 



Both these votes were unanimousl}^ passed. 



Mr. Woodford also moved that the following inscription be 

 placed upon the face of the clock in the Lower Hall : " Presented 

 to the Massachusetts Horticultural Society by John J. Low, April 

 5, 1845," and this vote was unanimously passed. 



The following named persons, having been recommended by the 

 Executive Committee, were, on ballot, duly elected members of the 

 Society : 



George E. Ckosby, of West Medford. 



Col. Solomon Lincoln, of Boston. 



James R. Pitcher, of Short Hills, N. J. 



Stacy Hall, of Boston. 



Francis II. Kidder, of Medford. 



Charles P. Bowditch, of Jamaica Plain. 



The following named persons were, upon recommendation of the 

 Executive Committee, elected Corresponding INIembers of the 

 Society : 



Henry John Elwes, F. L. S., F. Z. S., Preston House, Ciren- 

 cester, England. 



George Maw, F. L. S., etc., Benthall, Kenley, Surrey. 



W. T. Tiiiselton Dyer, F. R. S., Director of tlie Hoyal Botanic 

 Garden, Kew, England. 



D. Morris, Assistant Director of the Royal Botanic Garden, 

 Kew, Kngland. 



