AKKUAL MEETING. 



In accordance with the provisions of chapter IV. of the 

 by-laws, the Board met at the office of the secretary, in 

 Boston, on Tuesday, Jan. 9, 190(i, at 11 o'clock a.m., it 

 beino; the Tuesday precedini^ the second Wednesday of Jan- 

 uary. The Board was called to order by Second Vice- 

 President Augustus Pratt. 



Present: Messrs. Akerman, Allen, Anderson, Appleton, 

 Bradway, Bursley, Burt, Damon, Danforth, Albert Ells- 

 worth, J. L. Ellsworth, Jewett, Kilbourn, Leach, Mason, 

 Nye, Paige, Pease, Peters, Porter, Pratt, Reed, Richardson, 

 Ross, Shaylor, Spooner, Turner, Williams and Worth. 



Records of special business meetings of the year, also rec- 

 ords of the executive connnittee, read and approved. 



The executive committee, as committee on credentials, 

 by Mr. Kilbourn, chairman, reported the list of qualified 

 members of the Board for 1906. The newly constituted 

 members are as follows : — 



At large, appointed by tlie Governor, Gen. Francis II. 

 Appleton of Peabody. 

 Elected from the — 



Amesbury and Salisbury Society, J. J. Mason of Amesbury, 



Hampshire, Franklin and Hampden, William A. Bailey of 

 Northampton. 



Blackstone Valley, Samuel B. Taft of Uxbridge. 



Hingham, Edmund Hersey of Hingham. 



Housatonic, Edwin L. Boardman of Sheftield. 



Marshfield, H. A. Oakman of Marshfield. 



Massachusetts Horticultural, William H. Spooner of Jamaica 

 Plain. 



Hoosac Valley, A. M. Stevens of Williamstown. 



Massachusetts Society for Promoting Agriculture, N. L 

 •Bowditch of Framingham. 



