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appointed as tbat Committee Mr. Hadwen, E. W. Wood, and 

 Robert Manning. 



Benjamin M. Watson announced tlie decease of Charles Eliot, 

 who, he said, was a man thoroughly identified with horticultural 

 matters from the time of his graduation from college, — few had 

 been so thoroughly identified, — and moved the appointment of a 

 committee to prepare a memorial of him. The motion was carried, 

 and the Chair appointed as that Committee Mr. Watson, Ex- 

 President Dr. Henry P. Walcott, and James H. Bowditch. 



It was voted that the Committees on memorials to Messrs. 

 Lincoln and Eliot be authorized to send the respective testi- 

 monials to the families of the deceased as soon as prepared. 



Robert Manning announced the decease of Dr. Robert Hogg, of 

 London, editor of the "Journal of Horticulture," author of the 

 " Fruit Manual," and one of the leading horticulturists of Great 

 Britain, and a Corresponding Member of this Society. It was 

 voted that the President and Secretary write a letter to the family 

 of Dr. Hogg expressing the Society's sense of the loss sustained 

 by it in his decease. 



The subject of awards of premiums and gratuities to persons not 

 members of the Society was brought up by the President, and after 

 discussion by M. H. Norton, Joseph H. Woodford, William C. 

 Strong, William J. Stewart, O. B. Hadwen, and Mrs. E. M. Gill, 

 the subject was, on motion of Mr. Hadwen, referred to the Execu- 

 tive Committee with full powers. 



The following named persons, having bQen recommended by the 

 Executive Committee for membership in the Society, were on 

 ballot duly elected : 



George B. Dorr, of Boston, 

 Charles H. Rea, of Norwood, 

 Frederic J. Rea, of Norwood, 

 Charles Sander, of Brookline, 

 Thomas J. Grey, of Chelsea, 

 Ernest W. Bowditch, of Milton, 

 Mrs. Mary L. Stevens, of Cambridge. 



The meeting was then dissolved. 



