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MINUTES  OF  THE 
Mr.  Parrish  was  for  leaving  the  amount  to  be  fixed  annually. 
Mr.  Tufts  favored  this  view,  as  not  involving  an  alteration  in 
the  Constitution. 
Mr.  Stearns  wanted  information  to  explain  the  objects  of  the 
amendment. 
Dr.  Squibb. — These  are  that  the  Association  should  have  a 
fixed  officer  and  organization,  to  transmit  business  from  one 
year  to  another.  It  is  now  an  annual  organization,  excepting 
the  Executive  Committee,  and  that  only  appears  in  a  report. 
With  a  permanent  Secretary  there  will  be  an  officer  who  is  con- 
versant with  the  business,  and  carries  it  forward  from  meeting 
to  meeting.  He  will  have  possession  of  all  papers,  have  charge 
of  printing  and  editing  the  Proceedings,  and  by  education  will 
become  better  adapted  to  do  the  work  than  any  other.  The 
Proceedings  would  then  always  be  published  in  the  same  place, 
and  a  regular  routine  established,  &c. 
Mr.  Maisch  said  the  foreign  correspondence  with  European 
Societies  would  best  centre  in  the  permanent  Secretary,  and  he 
would  be  a  constant  medium  for  the  receipt  of  books,  papers,  &c. 
[Further  discussion  ensued,  for  which  we  have  not  space,  re- 
sulting in  fixing  the  salary  at  one  hundred  dollars,  and  directing 
the  travelling  expenses  of  the  Secretary  to  be  paid  by  the 
Association.] 
An  invitation  was  received  from  Mr.  J.  G.  Williams,  Apothe- 
cary at  Massachusetts  General  Hospital,  to  visit  that  Institution. 
Also  an  invitation  from  Prof.  Asa  Gray  to  visit  the  botanical 
garden  at  Cambridge  ;  both  of  which  were  accepted,  and  thanks 
tendered  for  the  courtesy. 
The  meeting  then  adjourned  until  to-morrow  morning  at  9 
o'clock. 
Second  Session — Sept.  6th.     Wednesday  morning. 
The  meeting  was  called  to  order  by  President  Gordon,  at  9J 
o'clock. 
The  Secretary  called  the  roll,  and  read  the  previous  minutes. 
The  Executive  Committee  brought  forward  the  following  names 
of  candidates  for  membership,  viz. : 
C.  W.  Lowe,  Carabridgeport,  Mass.  I  Alf.  Daggett,  J r.,  New  Haven,  Conn, 
Eobert  R.  Rhodes,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  Michael  J.  Lauer,  Baltimore,  Md. 
Jas.  E.  Blake,  New  Bedford,  Mass.,] 
