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from whom did he get the young vines? Hubbard did not live then ; Elhvanger 

 and Barry did not live then ; Purdy did not live then ; so, where did they come 

 from? The only answer is, he took them with him into the ark. So we are 

 thus led to believe that grapes were grown long before the destruction of the 

 old world — and even grapes may have grown in the Garden of Eden, in the 

 days of Adam and Eve. Yet, I am unable to find anything in the history of 

 those times that would confirm such a supposition, and am therefore inclined 

 to the belief that they were not. Had they grown there at that period as 

 delicious as they do here at the present, I think they would have been used by 

 the tempter, in place of the apple, as, in my judgment, the temptation to eat 

 would have been much greater. 



On motion of A. 11. Nowlen, a committee was appointed to ascertain whether 

 there was in the State treasury any of the swamp land fund belonging to this 

 county. 



On motion of W. A. Brown, the society extended to the State society a cor- 

 dial invitation to hold its next annual meeting at some point in Berrien county. 



The present membership of the society is twenty-eight. 



LIST OF MEMBERS. 



J. W. Leslie, J. A. McCulloch, R. C. Thayer, L. C. Crittenden, S. G. Antis- 

 dale, L. M. Ward, A. R. Nowlen, H. Merry, D. N. Brown, 0. E. Pteeves, J. R. 

 Stone, 0. E. Mead, P. M. Kinney, R. Wiuans — Benton Harbor. 



S. H. Comings, C. P. Phelps, Ira Overacher, R. C. Tate, G. F. Comings, 

 Chas. Rogge, J. H. Niz, R. W. Van Brunt, 0. B. Osborne, W. F. Peters, W. 

 T. Jones — St. Joseph ; Samuel Marrs, Stevensville ; H. C. Sherwood, Water- 

 vliet; Thos. Mason, Chicago, 111. 



