AMERICAN POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 
Organized 1848. 
Incorporated 1887. 
ACT OP INCORPORATION. 
COMMONWEALTH OP MASSACHUSETTS, 1887. 
Section 1. Patrick Barry, of Rochester, New York, Charles W. Garfield, 
of Grand Rapids, Michigan, Benjamin G. Smith, of Cambridge, Massa- 
chusetts, J. J. Thomas, of Union Springs, New York, Prosper J. Berckmans, 
of Augusta, Georgia, Robert Manning, of Salem, Massachusetts, their asso- 
ciates, the Officers and Members of the Association known as the American 
Pomological Society, and their successors, are hereby made a corporation 
under the name of “American Pomological Society,” for the purpose of 
promoting and encouraging the culture of fruit, with all the powers and 
privileges and subject to all the duties and liabilities set forth in the general 
laws which are now or may hereafter be in force applicable to such corpora- 
tions. 
Sec. 2. Said corporation may, for the purpose aforesaid, have and hold by 
purchase, grant, gift or otherwise, real and personal property to an amount 
not exceeding one hundred thousand dollars. 
Sec. 3. Said corporation may hold its annual meeting, or any special 
meeting in any place, state or country it may determine, provided that due 
notice shall be given to the members thereof of the time and place of said 
meeting. 
Sec. 4. Any two of the corporators above named are hereby® authorized 
to call the first meeting of said corporation in the month of September 
next ensuing, by due notice thereof to each member of said Association. 
COPY OF BEQUEST FROM THE WILL OF THE LATE MARSHALL 
P. WILDER. 
Eleventh. “I give to the American Pomological Society one thousand dol- 
lars, the income of which shall be, from time to time, offered in Wilder 
Medals for objects of special merit. 
“Also, the further sum of four thousand dollars, for the general purposes 
of the Society.” 
