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Massachusetts Horticultural Society, 



Incorporated the 12 day of June, A. D. 1829. 



Present number of members, six hundred eighty. 



President, 

 CHARLES M. HOVEY. 



Vice Presidents, 



J. F. C. Hyde, C. O. Whitmore, 



H. HOLLIS HUXNEA\ ELL, W. C. StRONG. 



Treasurer, 



William R. Austin. 



Corresponding Secretary, Recording Secretary, 



Eben. Wight. F. Lyman Winship. 



2. Proceedings of the Society, from 1843 to 1864. 



3. Publications of the Society, containing its History, &c., 

 by Gen. Dearborn. 



4. Boston Almanac for 1864. 



5. Catalogue of Proprietors of Mount Auburn Cemetery. 



6. Copies of Hovey's Magazine of Horticulture for 1864, 

 containing Reports of Building Committee. 



7. Copy of Fruits of America. 



8. Boston newspapers of August 18. 



9. Silver Medal of the Society. 



10. Bronze Medal. 



11. Appleton Bronze INIedal. 



12. Coins of the United States, dollar, half dollar, and smal- 

 ler, of the date of 1864. 



Beneath the box was placed the box, with its contents entire, 

 which was taken from beneath the Corner-Stone of the old Hall 

 in School Street. 



Both boxes were placed in a cavity in the first vermiculated 

 stone, at the north-west corner of the building, on Tremont 

 Street and Montgomery Place. 



