APPROPRIATIONS VOTED. 



For the Committee of Arrangements, this sum to cover 

 all extraoi'dinary expenses of said Committee, 



For the Library Committee, for the purchase of maga- 

 zines and newspapers, binding of books, and inci- 

 dental expenses of said Committee,. .... 400 



For the same Committee, to continue the Card Catalogue 



of Plates, 100 



For the Committee on Publication and Discussion, 



including the income of the John Lewis Russell Fund, 300 



For the Committee on School Gardens and Children's 

 Herbariums, this sum to cover all incidental expenses 

 of said Committee, and to be paid through the usual 

 channels, ......... 250 



For the salaries of the Treasurer and Superintendent of 



the Building, and the Secretary and Librarian, . . 3,000 



These appropriations were unanimously voted. 



The President also reported that the Executive Committee had 

 appointed Charles E. Richardson to be Treasurer and Superinten- 

 dent of the Building, and Robert Manning to be Secretary and 

 Librarian for the year 1895. 



The President further reported from the Executive Committee 

 that they had voted to recommend to the Society the payment of 

 $50 to William Castleton of East Boston, for his efficient 

 services in extinguishing the recent fire in the Society's Hall. 

 This appropriation was also voted by the Society. 



The President reported in regard to the subject of a course of 

 lectures by William Hamilton Gibson, referred to the Executive 

 Committee at the last meeting of the Society, that they deemed 

 it inexpedient to make any appropriation for that purpose. 



On motion of William C. Strong, it was voted that the Presi- 

 dent appoint a Committee on School Gardens and Children's 

 Herbariums for the year 1895. The President appointed as that 

 Committee, the following named persons : 



Mrs. Henrietta L. T. Wolcott, Chairman. 

 Henry L. Clapp, William E. C. Rich, 



George E. Davenport, Miss Katharine W. Huston, 

 Mrs. P. D. Richards, T. Otis Fuller. 



