118 MASSACHUSETTS HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



BUSINESS MEETING. 



Saturday, June 1, 1878. 



An adjourned meeting of the Society was holden at 11 o'clock, 

 Vice President C. H. B. Bkeck in the chair. 



Charles E. Ridler, of Kingston, and 

 Miss Katie A, Hill, of Lowell, 



having been recommended by the Executive Committee, were, on 

 ballot, duly elected members of the Society. 



Marshall P. Wilder, Chairman of the Committee to prepare 

 resolutions in memoiy of Cheever Newhall, presented the subjoined, 

 remarking that, probably from his great age, it had been his lot 

 oftener tlian he could wish to otfer such resolutions, and that he 

 did it in c nforn lity to his views of duty to those who had gone 

 before us. He eulogized Mr. Newhall as a man, a horticulturist, 

 and a farmer, and added that, since his decease, the only survivor 

 of the eight gentlemen named in the charter of the Society is John 

 B. Russell, now of Newmarket, N. J. 



Resolved, That in the death of Cheever Newhall this Society has 

 lost one of its oldest and most valued members, — one whose name 

 appears in its act of incorporation, passed almost fifty years ago, — 

 and a true and constant friend of our association. 



Resolved, That in the' valuable services rendered by him we 

 recognize the faithful discharge of official duty as the first Treasurer 

 of the Society ; as Vice President for seventeen years, and as a 

 liberal patron of agriculture, horticulture, and rural improvement. 



Resolved, That while we sympathize with his bereaved widow and 

 relatives in this affliction, we desire to recognize the Divine Good- 

 ness which gave to Mr. Newhall and to the Society such a long 

 and useful life, which will ever be commemorated by the excellent 

 portrait that now adorns our walls. 



Resolved, That these proceedings be entered on our records, and 

 that a copy be transmitted to Mrs. Newhall. 



Gen. Josiah Newhall seconded the resolutions, and said that 

 Cheever Newhall had for fifty years been one of his dearest friends. 

 He was a descendant of Thomas Newhall, who settled in L3-nn in 

 1630. He was one of the best informed and most successful prac- 



