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If there is no further business for the Convention, I will 

 entertain a motion to adjourn. 



DE. MURRILL : I move you, Sir, that we adjourn. 

 Seconded by Professor Rane. 

 The motion was put and carried. 



GOVERNOR TENER: I now declare tliis Convention ad 

 journed sine die. 



ADDENDA. 



Newport, Perry County, Pa., 



February 21, 1912. 



To the Officers of the Chestnut Blight Convention : 



I desire to submit a statement in connection with this blighted 

 wood question which is not the professional opinion of any 

 representative of the Chemical or Eorestry Department of the 

 State, or any scientist; but is presented merely as the thought 

 of a layman Avho has had considerable experience in the chest- 

 nut wood extract business, and who has conceived the idea that 

 it might possibly, in a way, have some bearing upon matters 

 under consideration by the convention. It is submitted merely 

 as an individual hypotliesis, which may be entirely wrong. 



W. M. BENSON. 



