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E. ^y. Wood, Chairman of the Committee on Establishing 

 Prizes, presented the Schedule agreed upon by that Committee, 

 which, after considerable discussion was accepted and adopted for 

 the year 1895. 



William E. Endicott, Chairman of the Committee on the 

 Library, read the Annual Report of that Committee, which was 

 referred to the Committee on Publication. 



Robert Manning read his Annual Report as Secretary and 

 Librarian, which was accepted and referred to the Committee on 

 Publication. 



Adjourned to Saturday, December 22, at eleven o'clock, a. m. 



BUSINESS MEETING. 



Saturday, December 22, 1894. 

 An adjourned meeting of the Society was holden at eleven 

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



The President, as Chairman on the Committee on the Building, 

 stated that that Committee had hoped to make a report at this 

 meeting, but were unable to do so, and asked further time, which 

 was granted. 



The Secretary at the request of the Chairman of the Committee 

 on Publication and Discussion, presented a Programme of Lec- 

 tures by William Hamilton Gibson, and moved that the Executive 

 Committee be requested to take into consideration the expediency 

 of providing for the delivery before the Society, and others, of a 

 course of three lectures ; with full powers. The motion was 

 carried. 



Henry L. Clapp, from the Committee on School Gardens and 

 Children's Herbariums, read the Annual Report of that Committee 

 including the third Annual Report of the Garden at the George 

 Putnam School. The report was accepted, and referred to the 

 Committee on Publication and Discussion. 



The meeting was then dissolved. 



