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At the close of the second day the members felt that, although the time fixed upon 

 for adjournment had come, they were just prepared to commence a profitable session. 

 A large number of them, ourself included, had been nearly all the time engaged on 

 committees, and had enjoyed no opportunity for an interchange of opinion on the sub- 

 jects that had been brought forward. We believe it is the general determination to 

 occupy an entire week with the next session ; and this we think will be absolutely 

 necessary, in order to accomplish much practical good. 



The Hon. M. P. Wilder pronounced an eulogy on the character of the late Mr. 

 Downing, on the evening of the first day, in the Musical Fund Hall. The audience 

 was large and select, and a mournful, solemn stillness pervaded it, indicative of a deep 

 and melancholy interest in the theme of the oration. It was an able and elegant pro- 

 duction, and will be published with the proceedings. 



The following is a list of the oflBcers chosen : 



Fres/dr7it.— MARSHALL P. WILDER, of Massachusetts. 



Vice Presidents. — One from nearly every State and Territory, including the Canada^, California, 

 and Oregon. 



Secretaries. — F. R. Elliot, of Ohio ; James H. "Watts, of New York ; H. "W". S. Cleveland, of Xew 

 Jersey. 



Treas,urer. — Thos. P. James, of Philadelphia. 



Executive Committee. — Dr. W. D. Buinkle, of Philadelphia ; B". V. French, of Massachusetts ; Mr. 

 Peters, Dr. H. Wendell, Albany, N. Y. ; Dr. J. A. Warder, Cincinnati ; and the President, and 1st 

 Vice President ex-officio. 



Committee on Foreign Fruits. — C. M. Hovey, Massachusetts ; P. Barry, Chas. Downing, -J. P. Knuc- 

 L.4.ND, New York ; R. Buist, Pennsylvania ; S. L. Goodall, Maine ; C. B. Lines, Connecticut. 



Committee on Native Fruits. — W. D. Brinckle, Pennsylvania ; F. R. Elliot, Ohio ; E. Tatnall, Jr., 

 Delaware ; Tuos. Hancock, New Jersey ; Col. Hodge, New York ; H. P. Byram, Kentucky ; Robert 

 Manning, Massachusetts. 



Committee on Synonyms. — J. S. Cabot, Massachusetts ; J. J. Thomas, New York ; A. H. Ernst, 

 Ohio ; J. A. Kennicott, Illinois ; S. D. Pardee, Connecticut ; A. Gaul, New York ; J. D. Fulton, 

 Pennsylvania. 



Chairmen of State Fruit Committees, (each one having power to select such persons, in his own 

 State, as will constitute a complete and efficient committee.) — General Chairman — Samuel Walker, 

 Roxbury, Mass. New York — P. Barry, Rochester. Pennsylvania — Thomas P. James, Philadelphia. 

 Delaware — Dr. Lewis P. Bush, Wilmington. District of Columbia — Joshua Pierce, Washington. 

 Georgia — Stephen Elliott, Jr., Savannah. Virginia — Yardley Taylor, Purcell's Store, Loudon Co. 

 Maine — Hy. Little, Bangor. New Hampshire — H. F. French, Exeter. Massachusetts — Ebenezer 

 Wright, Boston. Vermont — C. Goodrich, Burlington. Rhode Island — Stephen H. Smith, Provi- 

 dence. Connecticut — George Gabriel, New Haven. New Jersey — Wm. Reed, Elizabethtown. 

 Maryland — !3amuel Feast, Baltimore. South Carolina — Wm. Sumner, Pomaria, North Carolina — 

 Henry K. Burgwyn, Jackson. Ohio — R. Buchanan, Cincinnati. Illinois — J. A. Kennicott, North- 

 field. Indiana— -J. D. G. Nelson, Fort Wayne. California — Capt. F. W. Macondray, San Francisco. 

 Alabama — Charles A. Peabody, Gerard. Florida — A. G. Sems, Quincy, Gadsden Co. Kentucky — 

 E. D. Hobbs, Louisville. Mississippi — Thomas Affleck, Washington. Iowa — James Grant, Daven- 

 port. Missouri — Tliomas Allen, St. Louis. 



A constitution was adopted, in which the name is changed to "American Pomological 

 Society," and membership fixed at $20 for a life member, and |2 for a biennial mem- 

 bership. 



A resolution was offered by Mr. Robert Buist, and adopted, appointing a committee 

 to raise a fund of $20,000 or more, in subscriptions of $1 and upwards, to be invested 

 for the benefit of the widow of the late Mr. Downing, or to be expended otherwise in 

 some fitting monument to his memory. The President, Robert Buist, Caleb Cope, 

 H. W. S. Cleveland, B. Hodge, F. R. Elliot, L. Young, D. W. Breckenridge, and 

 J. A. Kennicott, constitute such committee. 



J. S, Cabot, Esq., President of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, invited the 

 Pomological Society to meet in Boston in 1854, and a resolution of adjournment was 

 passed to that effect. 



The details of the doings of the Society will soon reach us, and we shall then make 



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