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On motion the secretary was instructed to draw an order in favor 

 of Mrs. Bowen, for ten dollars, for her late husband's services as 

 librarian. 



Mr. Phillips. Before this passes out of the order of business, 1 

 desire to say that there are circumstances connected with the death 

 of our friend Bowen, that in a peculiar manner are calculated to 

 enlist our sympathies with him and his wife and dependent family. 

 Misfortune has fallen heavily upon them. Since our last meeting 

 two of their children were horribly frightened by a tramp — one of 

 them so as to cause its death — the other so as to lose for life its 

 sense of bearing. They have also buried two other of their children, 

 twins, within the same period, and now the husband and father 

 has been snatched away. James Bowen was a man who had in a 

 brief time since the society has met here at the College of Agricul- 

 ture, endeared himself to all our hearts. None of us will forget 

 how laboriously, yet cheerfully, he worked at our last winter meet- 

 ing to make our sessions here pleasant and profitable. While we 

 hold him in greatful remembrance let us not forget to aid to any 

 extent in our power the widow and the fatherless whom he has left 

 for our care. 



On motion Mrs. Bowen was declared an honorary life member of 

 this society, and the secretary instructed to notify her of the same. 



AMERICAN POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY, 



Prof. Porter. At the winter meeting last January, the society 

 did me the honor to recommend to the executive committee my 

 appointment as delegate to the meeting of the American Pomologi- 

 cal Society to be held at Philadelphia, September 12th. It is ex- 

 pected, as I understand the matter, that an exhibition of the fruits 

 of our state is to be made there ; and 1 wish to say to the so- 

 ciety that while I can and will gladly if required attend to the 

 transportation and display of the fruits, it will be necessary to con- 

 fide the collection of them to other hands, as my time and duties 

 will not make it possible for me to attend to that. 



Col. Stevens moved that the president and secretary be autho- 

 rized to get the fruits together and pack them for transportation ; 

 and they declining, Wyman Elliot, Mr. Lowell and M. C. Bunnel 

 were suggested, and after various motions and remarks on the sub- 

 ject the whole matter was laid over for the action of the executive 

 committee. 



