212 MASSACHUSETTS HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



The following uained persons, having been recommended by the 

 Executive Committee for membership in the Society, were, on 

 ballot, duly elected : 



John P. Spaulding, of Dorchester. 

 Miss Mary C. Hewett, of Canton. 

 Charles G. French, of Brookliue. 

 Herbert A. Horton, of Brookline. 



The meeting was then dissolved. 



BUSINESS MEETING. 



Saturday, October 6, 1894. 



A Stated Meeting of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, 

 being the Annual Meeting for the choice of Officers and Standing 

 Committees, was holden at eleven o'clock, Vice President, Charles 

 H. B. Breck, in the chair. 



The Secretary stated that the meeting had been duly notified to 

 the members of the Society, agreeably to the Constitution and 

 By-Laws. 



Samuel Hartwell, in behalf of the Nominating Committee, 

 reported that the Committee had nominated Benjamin M. Watson, 

 Jr., as Professor of Botany and Vegetable Physiology, in place of 

 John Rolnnson, who had declined to stand ; and George E. 

 Davenport as a member of the Library Committee, in place of 

 Waldo O. Ross, who had also declined to serve. 



Agreeably to the Constitution and By-Laws the Chair appointed 

 E. W. Wood, Thomas Westwood, and John M. Kinney a Com- 

 mittee to receive, assort, and count the votes given, and report the 

 number. The polls were opened at ten minutes past eleven 

 o'clock. 



While the voting was in progress, the Chairman read a letter 

 from the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, asking this Society to 



