FEBRUARY. 



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Payments for 1855, 



Taxes, $438 90; Insurance, ;§ 140 50, . 



Interest on Mortgage, 



Premiums and Gratuities, 



Salaries, ..... 



Medals, ..... 



Printing, Publishing, &c. 



Expenses, repairing Hall, Store, &.c. 



Books for Library, 



Miscellaneous Expenses, 



Paid Woodbury Mortgage and Interest, 



Balance in hands of Treasurer, 



Liabilities. 

 Mortgage to J. P. Bradlee, for ... 



Funds and property of the Society the same as in 1854. 



The Commi{tee to settle with Mount Auburn Cemetery made their Report 

 as follows : 



Receipts for sales of Lots, 1855, .... $21,075 00 



Deduct for Superintendence, . . . . . 1,400 00 



$19,675 00 

 Society's proportion of one quarter, .... $4,923 79 



A Committee was appointed to draw up resolutions expressive of the 

 sense of the Society upon the death of Rev. >Dr. Choules, an honorary 

 member. 



Rev. A. R. Pope offered the following Resolutions upon the death of 

 Dr. T. W. Harris, late Professor of Entomology to the Society : — 



Whereas, In the recent death of Dr. Thaddeus W. Harris, Professor of 

 Entomology, the Massachusetts Horticultural Society has lost one of its 

 ablest and honored members, and, in common with the community, is most 

 forcibly reminded of his many valuable contributions to science. 



Therefore, Desiring to place on the records a permanent recognition of 

 the value of Dr. Harris's services in promoting its objects, and the high ap- 

 preciation of his disinterested labors for this Society, which were only sur- 

 passed by the thoroughness of his researches in several other departments 

 of natural science, it is hereby 



Resolved, That we recall with grateful regard the many evidences which 

 Dr. Harris gave in his connection with the Society of his desire to promote 

 its welfare, and discern, in such honorable exertions of a man so eminently 

 qualified to adorn the walks of science, the noblest incentive to a proper 

 devotion to a cause which he aided by his toils and honored by his ability. 



Resolved, That the Corresponding Secretary be and hereby is instructed 

 to tender in behalf of the Society, to the family of the deceased, an ex- 

 pression of sympathy and condolence, in the occurrence of an event so 

 afflictive to thena. 



