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Botanical Garden photographs given by Dr. Nathaniel L. 



Britton. 



It is the opinion of the committee that the cost of fuel and 

 wood preclude the possibility of keeping the rooms open during 

 the winter, and the lack of visitors would make it unnecessary. 



The Secretary was directed to thank Messrs. Winter & Co. 

 for the loan of the exhibit of the development of the piano, 

 and Mr. Randall Comfort, Air. Stonebridge and Park Com- 

 missioner Berry for additional photographs loaned. 



Mr. Brown reported that Dressel & Co. had offered to loan 

 a railway lantern as an exhibit of their products. 



The Secretary was requested to mail to each of the mem- 

 bers five membership blanks, with the request that as many 

 new members, regular or sustaining, be secured as possible, in 

 order to provide the funds that are urgently needed for carry- 

 ing on and enlarging the work. 



The Secretary was authorized, as soon as funds permit, to 

 have stationery printed having the seal of the Society and 

 that in future, all printed matter, as far as feasible, bear the 

 seal, and that the definite article, which is part of the cor- 

 porate name, be not omitted. 



OCTOBER 31, 1908. 

 Meeting of the Society. 

 Rev. John C. Whiting was elected an Annual Member. 

 Mr. Davis, Chairman of the Museum Committee, gave an 

 account of what had been done and what was contemplated, in 

 preparing the rooms and securing and installing exhibits. 



Refreshments were then served; Mrs. Britton, Mrs. Schauf- 

 fler, Mrs. Stonebridge, Miss Denbigh, Miss Stoughton, and 

 Miss Neu, acting as hostesses. 



NOVEMBER 19, 1908. 

 Meeting of the Council. 

 It was voted that the January meeting of the Society be held 

 on January 19, the hundredth anniversary of Edgar Allan 



