146 MASSACHUSETTS HORTICULTUEAL SOCIETY. 



OsBORN B. Hall, of Makk-u, 

 Frederick W. Damon, of Arliagton, 

 George H. Braman, of Newton. 

 Wilfred Wheeler, of Coucord, 

 Dr. Mary E. Jones, of Boston. 



On recommendation of the Executive Committee, 

 Hon. James AVilson, Secretary of Agriculture, Washington, 

 D.C., was elected an Honorary Member of the Society, and 



J. W. Hoffman, Ph.D., Director of the Department of Agricult- 

 ural Biolog}- and Chemistry in Tuskegee Normal and Industrial 

 Institute, Tuskegee, Alabama, wns elected a Corresponding 

 Member. 



Adjourned to Saturday, September 4. 



BUSINESS MEETING. 



Saturday, September 4, 1897. 

 An adjourned meeting of the Society was holden today at eleven 

 o'clock, the President, Francis H. Appletox, in the chair. 



William H. Spooner, Chairman of the Committee appointed at 

 the July meeting to nominate candidates for Officers and Standing 

 Committees for the year 1898, reported a printed list, which was 

 accepted. It was voted that the Committee be continued, and re- 

 quested to nominate candidates to fill any vncancies that might 

 occur before election. 



The following memorial of Hon. Joseph S. Fay, prepared by 

 the Committee appointed for that purpose at the July meeting, 

 was pi'esented and adopted : 



Hon. Joseph Story Fay, an Honorary Member of the Massachu- 

 setts Horticultural Society, died at Boston on the 14th of June. 

 1897. 



Many years ago he began, at his seaside home at Wood's HoU, 

 the tree plantations which made him one of our earliest and most 

 successful leaders in the reforesting of tlie denuded areas of the 

 State. 



