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AMERICAN POMOEOGICAL SOCIETY 
That an honor roll be established, and that a place on it may be conferred 
by a three-fourths vote at any regular meeting. This honor to be conferred 
upon persons who have made notable contributions to the advancement of 
American Pomology: 
That an effort be made to secure needed funds through endowments or 
foundations, notably from the Carnegie Foundation Fund: 
That matters relating to the dates of payment and expiration of dues 
be left to the secretary and treasurer: 
That the official badge or button be a Wilder medal in miniature: 
That the publication of the bulletin be continued: 
That a permanent committee of five members on Wilder medal be ap- 
pointed, and that such committee be empowered to confer Wilder medals 
upon authors of meritorious papers on pomological subjects, for notable 
services rendered pomology, as well as for new fruits: 
That the committee on Grading and Inspection confer with other or- 
ganizations looking to the establishment of uniform national laws covering 
the subject. 
That matters pertaining to the clarifying of the nomenclature of nursery 
catalogs be referred to the committees on Revision and Nomenclature with 
power to act. 
C. L. WATROUS, 
Li. A. GOODMAN, 
G. L. TABER, 
L. R. TAFT. 
REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON NOMINATIONS. 
Mr. Hume: Colonel Brackett, as Chairman of this committee has 
asked me to read the report of its findings. 
(The report which was, in all essential respects, the same as the list of 
officers published was adopted and is omitted herefrom as a matter of 
duplication. — Secretary.) 
Motion carried. — Colonel Watrous: I was ordered by this committee to 
offer the following resolution: Resolved; that the places of state vice-presi- 
dents that have not been filled by the committee shall be filled by the offi- 
cers and executive committee. I move the adoption of the resolution. Second- 
ed by Beach, and carried. 
Motion carried. — Mr. Hume: There is just one other thing in connec- 
tion with this. We have been advised that some of these appointments made 
this morning were people who are not even members of this association, and 
I think it is but just to the Society that the Secretary should be empowered 
to strike out the nomination of any person that is not or does not become a 
member of the Society, and see that another person is appointed by the 
proper officers to take his place. Motion made and carried. 
I believe that the vice-presidents from the states are not fully filling 
the positions they occupy or doing the work they ought to do. It is quite 
apparent from the reports today that there are no funds and the only way 
