REPORTS READ, ETC. 17 



For the Library Committee, for the purchase of maga- 

 zines and newspapers, binding of books, and inci- 

 dental expenses of the Committee .... $400 



Tor the same Committee, to continue the Card Catalogue 



of Plates 100 



For the Committee on School Gardens and Children's 

 Herbariums, this sum to cover all incidental expenses 

 of the Committee, and to be paid through the usual 

 channels ......... 250 



The Executive Committee also reported the appointment of 

 Oharles E. Richardson to be Treasurer and Sux^erintendent of 

 the Building, and Robert Manning to be Secretary and Librarian 

 for the year 1896. 



J. D. W. French, Chairman of the Commitee on Lectures and 

 Discussions, announced the Programme for the present year, the 

 course to begin on the next Saturday, when E. 0. Orpet, of South 

 Lancaster, would read a paper on Hardy Garden Plants, which 

 all were freely and cordially invited to attend. 



Robert Manning read his Annual Report as Secretary and 

 Librarian. 



Charles N. Brackett, Chairman of the Committee on Vegetables, 

 read the Annual Report of that Committee. 



Henry L. Clapp, of the Committee on School Gardens and 

 Children's Herbariums, read the Annual Report of that Com- 

 mittee. A supplementary report was postponed to the next 

 meeting. 



These three reports were severally accej)ted, and referred to 

 the Committee on Publication. 



A vote of thanks to Waldo 0. Ross for his gift to the Library 

 of forty-seven volumes of " Nature " was unanimously passed. 



Benjamin M. Watson moved the appointment of a committee 

 to confer with the retiring President in regard to adding his 

 portrait to the series of portraits of the Presidents of the Society. 

 The motion was carried, and the Chair appointed as that Com- 

 mittee, Mr. Watson, Desmond Fitzgerald, and C. Minot Weld. 



J. D. W. Frencli made the following motion : That the Com- 

 mittee on Finance, in consultation Avith the Committee on the 



