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Mr. Manning also submitted tlie following further report : 

 It is the sense of the Committee on Establishing Prizes that 

 there should be a Committee appointed annually for the purpose of 

 awarding prizes and gratuities to exhibits of a strictly botanical 

 character, such as Native Plants exhibits, such committee to have 

 similar powers and to be guided by similar rules to those which now 

 guide the Committee on School Gardens and Children's Herbari- 

 ums, and to be allowed a separate appropriation. 



After remarks by George E. Davenport, Robert Manning, J. 

 H. Woodford, and J. Woodward Manning, on the importance 

 which the work of the Committee on School Gardens, etc., has 

 attained and the widespread interest which it has excited, and 

 other points, the report was laid on the table. 



On motion of Azell C. Bowditch, it was voted that the thanks of 

 the Society be presented to Charles A. Read, Jr., for his kind 

 and generous offer of Prizes for Orchard Houses, and that it be 

 accepted. 



The Librarian laid before the Society a copy of " A Traveller's 

 Notes of a Tour through India, Malaysia, Japan, Corea, the Aus- 

 tralian Colonies, and New Zealand during the Years 1891-1893," 

 by James Herbert Veitch, F.L.S., F.R.H.S., printed for private 

 circulation and presented by the author. It was voted that 

 the thanks of the Society be presented to Mr. Veitch for this 

 interesting and valuable addition to the Library. 



The following named persons, having been recommended by the 

 Executive Committee for membership in the Society, were on 

 ballot duly elected : 



Edmund M. Wood, of Natick, 

 James W. Nelsox, of Framiugham, 

 Henry A. Wheeler, of Newtonville, 

 John Baru, of Wellesley, 

 George H. Morgan, of New York, 

 J. A. Pettigrew, of Jamaica Plain. 



Adjourned to Saturday, December 18; 1897. 



