246 MASSACHUSETTS HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



George Hill announced the decease of Josiah Crosby, and moved 

 the appointment of a Committee to prepare a memorial of him. 

 The motion was carried, and the Chair a[)pointed as that Committee 

 Col. Henry W. Wilson, Charles N. Brackett, and George Hill. 



The Secretary laid before the Society letters from W. Thiselton 

 Dyer, D. Morris, Maxime Cornu, D. T. Tenhallow, and T. T. 

 Lyon, acknowledging with thaulcS the receipt of the notices of 

 their election as Corresponding Members of this Society. 



The following named persons, having been recommended by the 

 Executive Committee as members of the Society, were, ou ballot, 

 duly elected : 



Miss Helen Collamoke, of Boston. 

 John Henderson, of Flushing, N. Y. 

 Charles Anderson, of Flushing, N. Y. 

 Charles F. Evans, of Philadelphia. 



Adjourned to Saturday, June 4. 



BUSINESS MEETING. 



Saturday, June 4, 1887. 



An adjourned meeting of the Society was holden at 11 o'clock, 

 the President, Henry P. Walcott, in the chair. 



John G. Barker, Chairman of the Committee appointed at the 

 last meeting to prepare a memorial of Henry A. Breed, reported 

 the following : 



The Massachusetts Horticultural Society views with deep emo- 

 tion the departure, one by one, of those who laid its foundations 

 and watched over its early years. 



They have now to mourn the loss of Henry Allen Breed, the 

 last but one of the sixteen gentlemen who, on the 24th of February, 

 182!), met in this city to establish a horticultural society ; one who, 

 in the lifty-cight years which have since clai)scd, has seen the 

 institution, then begun in weakness, grow to streugtii and inllu- 

 encc ; whom in recent years, after a long and eventful business 

 career, we have welcomed at our meetings, where his presence has 



