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of the Iowa Academy of Science and in the scientific periodicals in 

 Germany and elsewhere. An ideal wedded life was terminated by 

 the death of Mrs. Hansen at Brookings, S. D., December i6, 1904. 

 The union is blessed by two children, Eva and Carl. 



In recognition of his valuable services to northwestern horti- 

 culture, at the annual meeting of our society in 1899 Prof. Hansen 

 was unanimously elected an honorary life member of the society. 

 His regular attendance at our annual gatherings now for many years 

 and the numberless other things he has done and is still doing in 

 increasingly larger measure for the art we foster ever increases our 

 obligation. Still a young man; in the early prime of his life, we look 

 forward confidently to his certain achievement of many successes 

 in his chosen field of horticultural work, in the results of which we 

 must necessarily be a sharer. — Secy. 



ANNUAL MEETING, 1905, MINNESOTA STATE HORTI- 

 CULTURAL SOCIETY. 



A. W. LATHAM, SEC'y. 



The easiest way to describe this meeting would be to refer to 

 the program of the meeting, which will be found in the annual re- 

 port of the society for 1905, as this program was carried out almost 

 in its entirety. With two or three exceptions all of those who had 

 accepted places on the program were present, one of the absentees, 

 unfortunately, being Prof. J. C. Blair, of the Illinois Experiment 

 Station, who was to furnish an illustrated article on "The General 

 Storage of Orchard Fruits." He was detained away through no 

 fault of his own, on account of imperfect connections enroute to the 

 meeting. 



The attendance at the opening session was the largest ever 

 present at any meeting of the society, the audience room being prac- 

 tically filled. 



Pres. Wedge was unable to be present, having been taken ill a 

 few days before and not being sufficiently recovered to be in his 

 place at the meeting. Prof. S. B. Green, by request, presided, and 

 Pres. Wedge's illness continuing to detain him away the chair was 

 filled by Prof. Green throughout the meeting, and under his skill- 

 ful and happy management an overfull program was worked oflf 

 with such promptness that only in a single instance did a paper go 

 over to the next session, and that was previously arranged on ac- 

 count of a vacancv certain to occur in that session. 



