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the "Memoirs of the American Academy of Arts and 

 Sciences." He also formed an arboretum of considerable 

 extent adjoining his residence, and may be considered as 

 one of the pioneers in botanical science in this country. 

 He died July 28, 1823, having enjoyed in an eminent 

 degree the confidence and honor of his fellow men. Dr. 

 George Osgood of Danvers, as a pupil and friend of Dr. 

 Cutler, may be mentioned in this connection. He was 

 present at a meeting in this place some thirteen years 

 since, and alluded to his residence in Hamilton about the 

 beginning of this century, to his rambles through these 

 woods with the venerable Cutler, from whose lips he 

 learned his first lessons in botany and the study of nature, 

 and durins: a lonsj life had continued his interest in these 

 pursuits, having derived from them much pleasure, hap- 

 piness and instruction. He died May 16, 1863, at the 

 age of fourscore. Dr. Osgood always spoke with much 

 pride of the late William Oakes as once his pupil, who 

 was wont to accompany him in his rambles and from 

 him imbibed a taste for, and soon eclipsed his old in- 

 structor in botanical attainments. Mr. Oakes was a 

 resident of the old town of Ipswich, and made exten- 

 sive collections of plants gathered in these woods, and 

 the name of Manchester had become famous as a botani- 

 cal region, from being attached to the specimens which he 

 preserved and so widely distributed. 



The President then alluded briefly to some of the 

 pleasing associations that cluster around this place. He 

 spoke of an informal gathering of several members of 

 the Natural History Society in July, 1836, when Benja- 

 min Hale Ives, a very enthusiastic student of nature, was 

 present and took a very active part in all the proceedings. 

 By him more perhaps than by any other was the foun- 

 dation laid upon which the present superstructure of our 



