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COMMITTEE ON DECEASED MEMBERS. 



Mr, Bryant submitted a report : 



Whereas, we have learned with deep regret the decease of Benjamin D. Walsh, 

 A. M., State Entomologist; 



Hesolved, That, in view of his scientific acquirements, which had secured for him a 

 national reputation; his zeal in investigation, and his practical mode of communicating 

 his discoveries, we consider his death, in the vigor of intellect, as a loss to the pubUc 

 not likely soon to be repaired. 



Eesolved, That, by the death'of All)ert S. Coe, of Rock Island, this Society has lost 

 a most worthy friend and co-laborer — a man, alike esteemed for liis public and 

 domestic virtues . 



ARTHUR BRYANT, Chairman. 



PAIR. 



Mr. Flagg offered the following resolutions : 



Besolvecl, That the Executive Committee be instructed and authorized to confer with 

 the officers of the State Agricultural Society, and to propose to join them in holding 

 their annual fair; provided they can do so on the following conditions : 



1. The Horticultural Society, through such superintendent as it shall select and the 

 Agricultural Society shall approve, shall take charge of the horticultural department, 

 and use all diligence to secure a good exhibition, properly arranged and decorated, of 

 that department. 



2. The Agricultural Society, in preparing the premium list for articles in the horti- 

 cultural department shall consult the Horticultural Society as to the suitable objects 

 and amounts of premiums, and make them proportionate to those offered in other 

 departments, 



3. The Horticultural Society shall receive a dividend of the profits or pay an assess- 

 ment of the deficits of the fair, proportionate to the amount of premiums awarded in 

 the horticultural department, 



Mr. Flag-g — I would like to offer these resolutions, because I think 

 that under our appropriation it is our duty to do something, and a 

 also think it is better to do it in co-operation with the agricultural 

 fair than attempt it by ourselves. We have made at least two 

 attempts to hold a fair without obtaining a financial success, although 

 w^e succeeded otherwise, and the Agricultural Society is not making 

 a very good success of its horticultural department. 



