116 MASSACHUSETTS HOETICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



BUSINESS MEETING. 



Saturday, May 4, 1878. 



An adjourned meeting of the Societ}^ was holden at 11 o'clock. 

 The President and Vice -Presidents being absent, Marshall P. 

 Wilder was chosen President pro tern. 



The following named persons having been recommended by the 

 Executive Committee, were, on ballot, dul}' elected members of the 

 Society : 



J. Arthur Beebe, of Boston, 



William H. Bowker, of Boston. 



The President j^ro tem., as Chairman of the Committee to pre- 

 pare resolutions in memory of Hon. Willard C. Flagg, reported the 

 following : 



Resolved, That in the decease of Hon. Willard Cutting Flagg, a 

 Corresponding Member of this Society, we recognize and mourn the 

 loss which we, in common with the public, and especially- the agri- 

 cultural and horticultural community, have sustained, of one of its 

 ablest and most eminent workers and writers. Mr. Flagg held at 

 various times the positions of Secretary and President of the Illi- 

 nois Horticultural Society ; was Corresponding Secretary of the 

 Illinois Industrial University from its foundation to his decease, and, 

 at the time of his decease, was Secretary of the American Pomologi- 

 cal Society, President of the National Agricultural Congress, 

 President of the Illinois Farmers' Association, and one of the chief 

 editors of the American Encyclopaedia of Agriculture. He was also 

 a trustee at various times of several State institutions, including the 

 Illinois Industrial University, and was, for several years, a Senator 

 in the Legislature of Illinois. But, while recognizing his eminence, 

 as shown by the many offices which he has been called to hold, and 

 in which it will be difficult to fill his vacant place, we would 

 especially remember his enterprise, his thoroughness in all that he 

 undertook, his spotless character, in public as well as in private, 

 and the universal esteem in which he was held for his probity, 

 social qualities, and high culture. We would remember him as a 

 man of strict honor and integrity, who loved justice for the sake of 

 justice, and whom none could swerve from the path of duty. 



Eesolved, That these resolutions be entered on our records, and 



