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committee to consider and report on the Schedule of Prizes and 

 Exhibitions for the year 1920. 



April 30. Mr. Farquhar reported that the protest of the Society 

 against the recently adopted Quarantine Order No. 37 had been 

 forwarded to the Secretary of Agriculture at Washington. 



The recommendation of the Advisory Committee concerning 

 an exhibition of orchids and other plants in March, 1920, was 

 approAcd and adopted together with an appropriation of $5,000 

 for the same. 



A further appropriation, not exceeding $2,500, to include the 

 income of the special prize fimds of the Society, was \'oted for other 

 exhibitions in the year 1920. It was Aoted also that the exhibitions 

 of that year shall not exceed six in number. It was voted to refer 

 the matter of publicity of the March Exhibition to the Advisory 

 Committee with fidl power to act. 



The matter of the report of the special committee on the future 

 policy of the Society, presented at the previous meeting, together 

 with the suggestions of President Endicott in his inaugural address 

 was referred for further consideration to the Advisory Committee. 



October 20. The special committee consisting of Messrs. Allen, 

 Farqidiar, and Sargent, appointed by the President to prepare a 

 list of nominations of the standing committees of the Society for 

 the year 1920, presented through Mr. Farquhar the following list 

 which Avas approved and adopted: 



Committees for the Year 1920. 



Finance: — Walter Hunnewell, Chairman, Richard M. Saltonstall, 



Stephen M. Weld. 

 Membership: — Thomas Allen, Thomas Roland, Edwin S. Webster. 

 Prizes and Exhibitions: — Thomas Allen, Chairman, Duncan 



Finlayson, T. D. Hatfield, James Wheeler, Ernest H. 



Wilson. 

 Plants and Flowers: — Samuel J. Goddard, Chairman, Douglas 



Eccleston, Julius Heurlin, Donald McKenzie, Thomas 



Roland. 



