No. 4.] ANNUAL MEETING. 193 



The pomologist to the Board, Professor Waugh, spoke of 

 the necessity and desirability of a greenliouse survey of the 

 State. 



Voted, To refer the matter to the legislative committee, 

 with power to act. 



The State Forester, Professor Rane, spoke of needed legis- 

 lation on the subjects of forest fires, forest taxation and forest 

 education, and presented bills embodying his ideas. 



Voted, To refer the bills to the legislative committee, with 

 power to act. 



The committee on agricultural societies, by Mr. Kilbourn, 

 chairman, presented requests by certain agricultural societies 

 for change of date for holding their annual exhibitions, when 

 it was 



Voted, That the date for the holding of the fair of the 

 Blackstone Valley Agricultural Society be changed to the 

 third Tuesday after the first Monday in September ; that of 

 Martha's Vineyard to the Tuesday preceding the first Mon- 

 day in September ; and that of the Weymouth Agricultural 

 and Industrial Society to the third Thursday after the first 

 Monday in September. 



Mr. Spooner, from the Massachusetts Horticultural So- 

 ciety, extended on behalf of that society an invitation to the 

 Board to hold its next public winter meeting at Horticultural 

 Hall, Boston. 



Voted, To accept the invitation, and to hold the next 

 public winter meeting in Boston, under the auspices of the 

 Massachusetts Horticultural Society. 



The Chair appointed, as a local committee of arrange- 

 ments to assist the secretary and the committee on institutes 

 and public meetings, Messrs. Spooner, Appleton, Damon and 

 Danforth. 



Mr. Pease, for the committee appointed to present resolu- 

 tions on the death of Henry S. Perham, presented and read 

 the following : — 



