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RESOLUTIONS ON THE DEATH OF 



Dr. Walter Van Fleet 



At the thirteenth annual convention of the Northern Nut Grow- 

 ers' Association, held at Rochester, N. Y., September 7, 8 and 9, 

 1922, a committee was appointed to express the sorrow of the asso- 

 ciation at the death of its honorary member. Dr. Walter Van Fleet, 

 at the age of sixty-four, on January 26th 1922, and to inform Mrs. 

 Van Fleet of its action. 



Dr. Van Fleet, at one time the only honorary member of the 

 association, was made so in recognition of his services to nut grow- 

 ing in breeding blight resistant chestnuts and chinkapins, and of his 

 unfailing courtesy to the association whenever asked to present the 

 results of his investigations. 



Although incomplete his experiments had already produced re- 

 sults of great promise and shown the way that his successors must 

 follow. Many of us knew him personally and had visited his home 

 and experimental grounds at Bell, Maryland, some of us more than 

 once. Few of us knew his varied and high attainments in many 

 other fields than plant breeding, though a moment's thought would 

 have made a discerning person see that his modesty, self-effacement, 

 kindliness and sympathy were things that most often come to those 

 whose experiences of life have been the widest. His accomplish- 

 ments in plant breeding and other fields, a bibliography of his writ- 

 ings, and the events of his life, were fully and sympathetically related 

 in a communication written by Mr. Mulford of the U. S. Dept. of 

 Agriculture at the request of the association and read at the meeting. 



The association feels that no one can ever quite take the place 

 of Dr. Van Fleet in the field of his life work, in experimental nut 

 breeding and in the hearts of the members of this association who 

 had the privilege of knowing him, and it wishes to put on record 

 its great sorrow at his untimely death in the very midst of his bene- 

 ficent activity for the benefit of mankind. 



