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Mr. Smith also, as Treasurer of the American Pomological 

 Society, presented to the Librar\' a copy of the Proceedings of 

 that Society at its Twenty-second Session, in Ocala, Florida, 

 February, 1889, for which the thanks of the Society were voted. 



A letter from F. Lyford, in regard to a claim on the Society, 

 was read and referred to the Finance Committee. 



Ex-President, James F. C. Hyde stated that much dissatisfac- 

 tion existed among the members of the Society in regard to the 

 appointment of Treasurer made b}- the Executive Committee, and 

 moved that a committee of five be appointed by the Chair to 

 confer with the Executive Committee on the subject. The motion 

 was unanimousl}' carried, and the Chair appointed as that Com- 

 mittee, Mr. Hyde, Leverett M. Chase, E. W. Wood, Patrick 

 Norton, and John G. Barker. 



Hon. Eugene H. Clapp, of Roxbury, 



having been recommended by the Executive Committee as a mem- 

 ber of the Society, was on ballot duly elected. 



O. B. Hadwen, Chairman of the Committee on Publication and 

 Discussion, announced that the first of the meetings for discussion 

 the present season would be held on the next Saturday, at half 

 past eleven o'clock, when Professor G. H. Whitcher, director of 

 the New Hampshire Agricultural Experiment Station, Hanover, 

 N. H., would read a paper on the "Growth and Nutrition of 

 Plants." 



Adjourned to Saturday, Januarj- 11, at half past eleven o'clock. 



BUSINESS MEETING. 



Saturday, January 11, 1890. 



An adjourned meeting of the Society was holden at half past 

 eleven o'clock, the President, William H. Spooner, in the chair. 



The Secretary read a letter from W. W. Dunlop, Secretary of 

 the Montreal Horticultural Society, containing the information 

 that a Convention of Fruit Growers of the Dominion of Canada 



