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of all being in the remembrance of the noble and usefi;! life of 



our brother? 



William C. Strong, ) 



O. B. Had WEN, > Committee. 



Robert Manning, j 



The memorial was unanimously adopted. 



The Annual Report of the Committee on Plants was read by the 

 Secretary, accepted, and referred to the Committee on Publication. 



The President, as Chairman of the Executive Committee 

 reported from that Committee a recommendation that the Society 

 appropriate $50 to defray the expense of the first volume of 

 " Photographs and Descriptions of Old Trees of New England," 

 prepared by the Committee on Large, Old, or Otherwise Interest- 

 ing Trees. The appropriation was unanimously voted. 



The amendments to the Constitution and By-Laws, ordered by 

 a majority vote, at the Stated Meeting on the first Saturday in 

 January, to be entered on the records, came up for further action. 

 William C. Strong moved that the Constitution and By-Laws be 

 taken up de novo, and be amended according to the report of the 

 majority of the Committee on that subject, with certain changes 

 which he proceeded to state. The majority report of the 

 Committee on the Constitution and By-Laws, as thus amended, 

 was read twice, and by a majority vote ordered to be entered on 

 the records, and laid over for consideration at the Stated Meeting 

 on the first Saturday in July. It was also voted that these 

 proposed amendments be printed and distributed. 



The following motion, offered by Leonard Thompson, was 

 unanimously carried : 



That the plan of the Rumford Historical Association in erecting 

 a pillar marking the spot of the discovery of the Pecker, or, later 

 named, Baldwin apple is approved as worthy by this Society. 



The following named persons, having been recommended by the 

 Executive Committee for membership in the Society were ©n 

 ballot duly elected : 



Mrs. C. S. Hatch, of North Cambridge, 



Professor James F. Babcock, of Boston, 



Livingston Cushing, of Weston, 



C. Sidney Waldo, of Jamaica Plain. 



