MEMBERS PROPOSED AND ELECTED. 9 



INIrs. H. L. T. Wolcott, Chairman of the Committee on "Window 

 Gardening, read the Annual Report of that Committee. 



These three reports were severally accepted, and referred to the 

 Committee on Publication. 



The Secretary read a letter from Eliza S. Parkman, conveying 

 the heartfelt thanks of the family of the late Francis Parkman, for 

 the testimonial to him adopted by the Society. 



The following named persons were proposed as members of the 

 Society : 



Clarence E. Grosvenor, of Charlestown, proposed by Robert 

 Manning as a Life Member. 



Mrs. Mary R. Keith, of Wollaston, proposed by S. A. Merrill, 

 as an Annual Member. 



John Ash, of Pomfret, Conn., proposed by Michael H. Norton, 

 as a Life Member. 



The followimg named persons, having been recommended by 

 the Executive Committee, were on ballot duly elected to member- 

 ship in the Society : 



Arthur E. Whitney, of Winchester, 

 Nathaniel I. Bowditch, of Framingham. 



The President announced that the Schedule of Prizes for 1894, 

 was ready for distribution, and also that the series of Meetings for 

 Discussion the present season, would commence on the next 

 Saturday, with a lecture on Fungi, by William C. Sturgis, Ph.D., 

 Mycologist of the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station ; 

 this lecture being delivered on the John Lewis Russell Foundation. 



Adjourned to Saturday, February 3. 



MEETING FOR DISCUSSION. 



Saturday, January 13, 1894. 

 A Meeting for Discussion was holden today at eleven o'clock, 

 the President, Nathaniel T. Kidder, in the chair. 



The following lecture was delivered on the John Lewis Russell 

 Foundation : 



