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businp:ss meeting. 



Saturday, August 4, 1894. 

 An adjourned meeting of the Society was holden at eleven 

 o'clock, the President, Nathaniel T. Kidder, in the chair. 



Agreeably to the Constitution and By-Laws, the President 

 appointed the following named members a Committee to nominate 

 candidates for OtRcers and Standing Committees of the Society 

 for the next year : 



.J. D. W. French, Chairman. 

 Samuel Hartwell, Jackson Dawson, 



Arthur H. Fewkes, Warren H. Manning", 



C. Minot AVeld, Varnum Frost. 



Adjourned to Saturday, September 1. 



BUSINESS MEETING. 



Saturday, September 1, 1894. 

 An adjourned meeting of the Society was holden at eleven 

 o'clock. Vice President Charles H. B. Breck, in the chair. 



Samuel Hartwell, from the Committee appointed at the last 

 meeting to nominate candidates for Officers and Standing Commit- 

 tees for the year 1895, read a report which was accepted. It was 

 voted that the committee be continued, and requested to nominate 

 candidates in place of any who might decline before the election. 



The decease of Dr. Joseph Burnett was announced, and O. B. 

 Hadwen, N. I. Bowditch, and Benjamin G. Smith were appointed 

 a Committee to prepare an expression of the Society's regard for 

 Dr. Burnett. 



The Secretary read a letter from William Watson, Assistant 

 Curator of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, England, acknowl- 

 edging the receipt of his Diploma as a Corresponding Member of 

 the Society and thanking the Society therefor. 



