REPORT OF BOARD OF TRUSTEES. 163 



Education Department Committee, 1915 Boston Exposition, was 

 presented suggesting an exhibit bv this Society at the proposed 

 exhibition in November of the current year. On motion of Mr. 

 Parker it was voted that it was not advisable for this Society to 

 make an exliibit on that occasion. 



On motion of Mr. Bayhes it was voted to invite the American 

 Peony Society and the Chrysanthemum Society of America to hold 

 their next annual exhibitions in the halls of this Society. 



The report of T. D. Hatfield, Chairman of the Plant and Flower 

 Committee, on the subject of the appointment of judges at the 

 Orchid Show of May, 1910, was read and it was voted to refer the 

 matter of appointment of such orchid experts as may be necessarv 

 to the Committee on Prizes and Exhibitions with full power to act. 



The President, for the special committee on the proposed new 

 contract with the ^Nlount Auburn Cemetery Corporation, reported 

 that the matter was not yet ready for final settlement, and it was 

 voted to refer the report back to the committee for further con- 

 sideration. It was voted also that the powers of this committee 

 be broadened to include an investigation of the whole subject. 



Mr. Hunnewell suggested the advisability of paying at once the 

 amounts of the prizes awarded by the Committee on Children's 

 Gardens, and it was voted to authorize the Treasurer to pay these 

 awards as soon as the lists can be prepared. 



On motion of INIr. Bowker it was voted that the Treasurer con- 

 sider the plan of paying the amounts awarded for prizes and 

 gratuities in the year in which they are made and of charging them 

 on the account of the same year. 



The following named persons were duly elected to membership 

 in the Society: 



INIrs. Henry P. Kidder of Boston, proposed by N. T. Kidder 



Bentley W. Warren of Boston, 



WinsloV Clark of Milton, 



Francis R. Hart of Milton, 



Mrs. J. Malcoln Forbes of iSIilton, 



Arthur Wainwright of ^Milton, " " " 



W. Prentiss Parker of Roxbury, 



John Balch of Afilton, 



