Official Business. 
ELECTION OF OFFICERS. 
The Nominating- Committee, consist¬ 
ing of F. D. Waite, Dr. George Kerr 
and Cyrus W. Butler, presented a ticket 
to the Society, re-electing all the old of¬ 
ficers. 
C. T. McCarty moved that a formal 
ballot be dispensed with and that all the 
old officers be declared re-elected. Car¬ 
ried. 
(See list in front pages of the book// 
Dr. Kerr said the situation was truly 
appalling to him, as he was one of the 
committee, and the others dragooned 
him into nominating himself for re-elec¬ 
tion. 
President Taber made a graceful ac¬ 
knowledgement, and the Secretary said 
he would simply say “Ditto/’ 
Treasurer Hart returned thanks for 
this renewed evidence of confidence. 
Vice-President Cooper said he was 
surprised last year, and now he was more 
surprised than ever. 
Chairman Phelps said he felt it a high 
honor to be elected to the same position 
fifteen years consecutively. 
Mr. Hubbard said the Society had 
done a great work, and he had felt it an 
honor to serve on the committe so many 
years. The Society still has a great 
work of education to do, and he illus¬ 
trated this point by a story of an igno¬ 
rant old man who pointed out the lady- 
bug feeding on the scales and said to 
him, “Mr. Hubbard, you ought to kill 
them there lady-bugs. They breeds the 
scale. You ought to kill every one of 
’em.” 
Mr. Painter made a humorous speech, 
punning on the names of the other of¬ 
ficers. 
SELECTION OF NEXT PLACE OF MEETING. 
C. W. Butler—A citizen of Tampa ex¬ 
pected to be here and extend to you a 
cordial invitation to hold your next 
meeting there, but the party did not ar¬ 
rive. This morning and last night so 
many members and especially those from 
the East Coast expressed a desire to go 
to the West Coast that we concluded to 
put forward the invitation from Tampa 
for the next meeting. Looking over the 
situation as a whole, Jacksonville has 
done nobly by us, and St. Augustine is 
to me the most delightful place I have 
ever visited. But in the language of a 
