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The report of the Committee was accepted, and the persons named 

 on the above mentioned ticket were, agreeabl}' to the Constitution 

 and By-Laws, declared by the President to have a plurality of votes, 

 and to be elected Officers and Standing Committees of the Society 

 for the year 1897. 



Adjourned to Saturday, November 7. 



BUSINESS MEETING. 



Saturday, November 7, 1896. 

 An adjourned meeting of the Society was holden today at 

 eleven o'clock, the President, Francis H.'Apfleton, in the chair. 



O. B. Had wen, Chairman of a Committee appointed to prepare 

 a memorial of Andrew S. Fuller, of Ridgewood, N. J., made the 

 following report : 



In Memory of Andrew S. Fuller. 



By the death of Andrew S. Fuller, tliis Society has lost one of 

 its most valued Corresponding Members, and horticulturists a 

 brother who has devoted a long life to the advancement of both 

 the science and the practice of their art. He was an enthusiast in 

 promoting the cultivation of fruits ; and his published works were 

 among the first containing elaborate experimental information 

 relating to the propagation and cultivation of that extensive class 

 commonly known as small fruits, and are justly recognized by 

 the large class of growers engaged in that branch of horticulture 

 as standard works. He has been the means of stimulating the 

 vast cultivation pursued all over our country, and of elevating the 

 industry to its present advanced standard. 



Mr. Fuller's work, " The Forest Tree Culturist," is a most valu- 

 able acquisition to this branch of agricultural industry, at present 

 in its infancy, but destined, as time goes on, to improve a vast 

 area of land now comparatively worthless. This work has 

 awakened a more general interest, which slowly but surely will 

 benefit the whole country as well as those who are immediately 

 engaged therein. Those of the Society who have personally 

 known Mr. Fuller, and have seen him at the meetings of the 

 American Pomological Society, when being held in Boston and 



