Voted on the Smith and Potter resolution to recommend changing the name of the Busseron pecan to Vincennes; Posey pecan to Wabash; Buttrick pecan to Illinois. It was the opinion of the committee that the other names of pecans had been established by the Department of Agriculture by printing in the year book, and that it was not advisable to change them.
We recommend, as advisable for members introducing new varieties, to confer with the committee on nomenclature before listing new names.
Signed.
W. C. Reed,
W. C. Deming,
R. L. McCoy,
R. T. Morris,
C. A. Reed.
A Member: I move the adoption of this report.
A Member: I second the motion.
The President: It has been moved and seconded that the report of the committee on nomenclature be adopted. Are you ready for the question? All in favor of the motion make it known in the usual way. It is unanimously carried that we adopt this report. Are there any other committee reports?
Professor Close: Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen: The committee on exhibits has not had a very arduous duty, because we can't have at this time of year very extensive exhibits. But what we have are very interesting. Mr. W. C. Reed has an exhibit of English walnuts, hickory nuts and hardy almonds. You have all noticed the exhibits he has in the glass case. That is very instructive and is put up in such a way that it can be carried from place to place. He also has some photographs of trees. Mr. Wilkinson has an exhibit of fruiting limbs of shagbark hickory and pecans, and various seedlings. To some of us some of those things are almost new. Colonel Sober has an exhibit of grafted chestnut trees. He also has the burrs and in glass jars he has the nuts. Then there is quite an exhibit of the native varieties made by our president, which is very fine. There are also some persimmons. I think, everything considered, the society is to be congratulated upon the quality of the exhibits even though the quantity is not so very great.
The President: If there is no objection the report of the committee on exhibits will be adopted. The report is adopted. Are there any further committee reports?
Mr. Potter: The committee on resolutions reports as follows:
Resolved, That we extend our thanks to the Mayor and the Citizens of Evansville, Indiana, for the courteous entertainment they have favored us with, and for the excellent facilities that they have placed at our disposal.