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Voted, That the several commitlees be required to hold official 

 meetings to arrange a list of prizes to be presented to the Com- 

 mittee on Establishing Prizes to be offered by the Society. 



The Committee provided for at the last meeting of the Society 

 to prepare a memorial of the late Samuel R. Paysou was an- 

 nounced by the President as follows : Benjamin C. Clark, William 

 H. Spooner, and Walter Hunnewell. 



And the Committee to prepare a memorial of Edwin W. Bus- 

 well as follows : E. W. Wood, Samuel Hartwell, and George E. 

 Davenport. 



The following named persons, having been recommended by the 

 Executive Committee for membership in the Society, were on 

 ballot duly elected : 



William H. Burlen, of Boston, 



William J. Kennedy, of Brighton, 



Marcellus a. Patten, of Tewksbury, 



Edward A. Wilkie, of Newtonville, 



George E. Francis, M.D., of Worcester, 



Arthur F. Estabrook, of Boston, 



James O. Hale, of Byfield, 



William S. Briggs, of Lincoln, 



Mrs. F. A. (Sarah C.) Pierce, of Brookline, 



Isaac Sprague, of Wellesley Hills. 



The polls were closed at five minutes past one o'clock, and the 

 Committee to receive, assort, and count the number given reported 

 the whole number of ballots cast to l)e fifty-five, and that the 

 members named on the ticket reported by the Nominating Com- 

 mittee had a plurality of votes and were elected. 



The report of the Committee was accepted, and the persons 

 named on the above mentioned ticket were, agreeably to the 

 Constitution and By-Laws, declared by the Chairman, O. B. 

 Hadwen (the President having retired and called Mr. Hadweu to 

 the chair) to have a plurality of votes, and to be' elected Officers 

 and Standing Committees of the Society for the year 1898. 



Adjouined to Saturday, November 6. 



