REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON THE BUILDING. 55 



After ii full discussion of the subject, by a large number of 

 members, the following vote was passed : 



Voted, That the Society adopt the recommendation of the 

 Building Committee, and give that Committee power to act. 



Charles E. Kichardson, Treasurer, read his Annual Eeport, 

 approved by the Finance Committee, which was accepted and 

 referred to the Committee on Publication. 



The following-named persons were appointed by the President 

 a Committee on School Gardens and Children's Herbariums for 

 the year 1896 : 



Henry L. Clapp, Chairman, 

 Mrs. Henrietta L. T. Wolcott, Mrs. P. D. Eichards, 

 George E. Davenport, Miss Katharine W. Huston, 



William P. Kich, W. E. C. Eich. 



It was moved that the President appoint a Committee of three 

 to prepare a memorial of the late Charles M. Atkinson. The 

 motion was carried, and the Chair appointed as that Committee 

 Patrick Norton, Erederick L. Harris, and Kenneth Pinlayson. 



The same motion was made with regard to Hon. John P. 

 Spaidding, and this motion also was carried, and the Chair 

 appointed the Committee as follows : Joseph H. Woodford, 

 Hon. George Heywood, and Edwin A. Hall. 



A letter from Samuel Henshaw, Secretary of the Boston Society 

 of Natural History, inviting the Society to attend a lecture by 

 Herbert Lyon Jones on the "Biological Adaptation of Desert 

 Plants to their Surroundings," before the Society of Natural 

 History, on the evening of February 5, was read. It Avas voted 

 that the invitation be accepted, and that the thanks of this Society 

 be presented to the Natural History Society therefor. 



Charles Wells Hubbakd, of Weston, 



having been recommended by the Executive Committee for mem- 

 bership in the Society, was on ballot duly elected. 



Adjourned to Saturday, jNIarch 7. 



