EErORTS OF AWA1JI)IN(; Cc )AI.MnTi:KS. 85 



BUSINESS MEETING. 



Satihday, February 14, 1801. 



An adjourned nieetiuo- of the Society was holdeu at eleven 

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



Joseph H. Woodford, Chairman, presented the following report: 

 The Committee, appointed to report recommendation of com- 

 pensation for the various Committees on Exhibitions, report : 



One hundi'ed dollars to each of the six Chairmen, and one 

 dollar each for other members Avhenever they attend as required 

 by the Schedule ; an account to be kept by the Chairman. 



J. H. Woodford, ^ 



H. P. Walcott, y Committee^ 



C. H. B. Breck, j 



The Report was unanimously adopted. 



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

 Discussion to which was referred the award of prizes for the best 

 reports of awarding Committees, presented the following report: 



The First Prize to Joseph H. Woodford, for the Report of the 

 Committee on Plants and Flowers. 



The Second Prize to Charles N. Brackett, for the Report of the 

 Committee on Vegetables. 



The Third Prize to E. W. Wood, for the Report of the Com- 

 mittee on Fruits. 



The report was unanimously adopted. 



The .Secretary announced the receipt of a letter from the 

 Secretary of the State Board of Agriculture, accepting the invita- 

 tion to hold its winter meeting in the Society's Halls, and stating 

 that the meeting would be held on the first, second, and third days 

 of December next. 



Adjourned to Saturdaj^, February 21. 



