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Mr. Upham read the following proposed amendment to the constitution, 

 which will have to be submitted at two quarterly meetings before final action 

 upon it can be taken. 



Proposed amendment to Article III of the Constitution. 



The following to be added to the fourth paragraph : — 



"Provided that any Corresponding Member, at his or her request, and 

 upon the recommendation of the Directors in writing, may, by vote at any 

 meeting, become entitled to the privileges and liable to the duties and regu- 

 lations of a Resident Member." 



It was then voted: — that the Curators of Horticulture be authorized to 

 hold exhibitions of Fruits, Flowers and Vegetables, at such times and places 

 as may be deemed advisable, and to adopt such regulations as may be requi- 

 site for the proper conducting of the same. 



Letters were read from Dr. Wm. A. Nason, Chicago, 111.; Prof. S. F. 

 Baird, Smithsonian Institution ; Rev. E. C. Bolles, Portland, Me.; Alpheus 

 Hyatt, Baltimore, Md. 



Luther D. Shepard and Samuel P. Walcott, of Salem, and Joseph W. 

 LeFavour, of Beverly, were elected Resident Members. 



Monday, June 4, 1866. Regular Meeting. 



Vice President Goodell in the Chair. 



Elliott Cones, Asst. Surg. U. S. A. ; Sarah Ann Chever, of Melrose, 



Mass. ; Burt G. Wilder, M. D., of Boston, Mass. ; Thomas D. Lovett, of 



Maiden, Mass. ; Prof. Oliver Wendell Holmes, of Boston, Mass., were 



elected Corresponding Members. 



Caleb A. Smith, of Salem, was elected a Resident Member. 



Thursday, June 7, 1866, Field Meeting at Haverhill. 



The first Field Meeting of the season took place this day, several hun- 

 dred persons attending, of which about two hundred left Salem at 8 o'clock, 

 A. M., in an extra train over the Essex Road, passing through South Dan- 

 vers, Danvers, Topsfield, Boxford, Georgetown and Groveland to Bradford 

 station, near the bridge over the Merrimac, and proceeded to the Town 

 Hall in Haverhill, where they were welcomed by Dr. James R. Nichols, upon 

 whose invitation Haverhill had been selected as the place of meeting. 



A small party of zoologists left the cars at Groveland station, and made 

 an excursion down the Merrimac to the ferry, where they crossed the river 

 and continued their explorations through the fields and woods to Lake Ke- 

 noza, the head quarters of the meeting. This party passed several fishing 

 stations and witnessed the capture of a few Shad, Alewives, Suckers and 

 Lampreys, and they also secured several insects and other specimens found 

 along their route. 



