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Eegular Meeting, Monday, December 3, 1877. 



Meeting this evenino^. The President in the chair. 

 Records read. Correspondence and donations announced. 



Mr. E. B. George, of Groveland, was elected a resident 

 member. 



The President spoke of the death of Mr. John C. 

 Lee, for many years a member and an officer of the In- 

 stitute, remarking npon the assistance given in its early 

 history, and of the zeal and interest he had always shown 

 in its ol)jects, especially in the department of horticulture. 



Rev. E. B. WiLLSON followed and spoke of Mr. Lee 

 as a parishioner as well as a neighbor, and of his very 

 pleasant acquaintance in both relations. Mr. Willson 

 also alluded to his fondness for nature, particularly of his 

 love of trees, and said that his reading in the latter years 

 was very extensive. 



On motion of j\Ir. C. Cooke : 



Voted., That a committee of three be appointed to pre- 

 pare suitable resolutions of respect to the memor}^ of Mr. 

 Lee, the same to be entered upon the records, and a copy 

 sent to the family of the deceased by the secretary. 



Eev. E. B. Willson and Messrs. H. M. Brooks and G. 

 M. Whipple were appointed. This committee was author- 

 ized to prepare a memoir of Mr. Lee, for the publications 

 of the Institute, if the same should be deemed desirable. 



Resolutions on the death of Mr. Lee : 



The undersigned, appointed a committee of the Essex 

 Institute to prepare resolutions expressive of the sorrow 

 with which the Institute has received the intellio^ence of 



