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Walter Raymond, of Cambridgeport, 



having been recommended by the Executive Committee, was, on 

 ballot, dul}^ elected a member of the Society. 



The polls were closed at twent3'-eight minutes past twelve 

 o'clock, and the Committee to receive, assort, and count the votes, 

 reported the whole number of ballots to be . . . . IjOo 



Necessary for a choice ....... 53 



^ The report of the Committee was accepted, and the persons re- 

 ported as having the number of ballots necessary for a choice 

 were, agreeably to the Constitution and By-Laws, declared by the 

 President to have a majority of votes and to be elected Officers 

 and Standing Committees of the Society for the year 1891. 



Adjourned to Saturday, November 1, 1890. 



BUSINESS MEETING. 



Saturday, November 1, 1890. 



An adjourned meeting of the Society was holden at eleven 

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



The President, as Chairman of the Executive Committee, re- 

 ported from that Committee a recommendation that the Society 

 appropriate the sum of $6,800 for prizes for the year 1891, this 

 amount to be apportioned among the several committees as deemed 

 best by said committees. The report was accepted, and agreeably 

 to the Constitution and BN'-Laws was laid over until the stated 

 meeting on the first Saturday in January next for final action. 



Francis H. Appleton stated that the plate for Members' Diplomas 

 was much worn, and moved that the subject of repairing it or pro- 

 viding a new plate be referred to the Committee on Publication. 

 It was so referred. 



The Secretar)' stated that when the amendment to the Constitu- 

 tion and By-Laws was proposed on the first Saturday in July, 1889, 

 it was itself amended so as to provide for a Committee on Plants- 

 of five members instead of three, and that this change having 

 been overlooked when the nomination of officers and committees 

 was made, two vacancies existed in the Committee. On motion of 

 Joseph H. Woodford, it was voted that the three members-elect of 



