184 MASSACHUSETTS HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



. The following named persons, having been recommended by the 

 Executive Committee as members of the Society, were on ballot 

 duly elected : 



John T. Brown, of Newburyport, 

 Charles H. Souther, of Jamaica Plain, 

 Richard F. Barrett, of Concord. 



Adjourned to Saturday, September 7. 



BUSINESS MEETING. 



Saturday, September 7, 1895. 



An adjourned meeting of the Society was holden at eleven 

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



William H. Spooner, Chairman of the Committee to nominate 

 candidates for Officers and Standing Committees for the year 1896, 

 presented a printed list. This report was accepted and it was 

 voted that the Committee be continued and requested to nominate 

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



Mr. Spooner announced the decease of Benjamin P. Cheney, 

 and moved the appointment of a Committee to prepare an expres- 

 sion of the Society's regard for him. The motion was carried, 

 and the Chair appointed as that Committee, Benjamin G. Smith, 

 Benjamin C. Clark, and Walter Hunnewell. 



The meeting was then dissolved. 



BUSINESS MEETING. 



Saturday, October 5, 1896. 



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, the President, Nathaniel 

 T. Kidder, in the chair. 



