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as its general agent. Mr. Kenrick was also one of the 

 founders, and a member of the Council and of the Fruit 

 Committee. 



At the meeting on January 6, 1872, George W. Pratt 

 presented, " in behalf of certain gentlemen who wished to 

 show their appreciation of the great interest evinced by 

 the late Hon. John Lowell in horticulture and rural art, 

 and also to keep in remembrance his active and noble 

 efforts as one of the earliest members of the Horticul- 

 tural Society, a bust of him, executed in marble by 

 Brackett." 



The portrait of Benjamin V. French was presented 

 by his nephew, Benjamin V. French of Lynn ; that of 

 Aaron D. Williams, by his son, Aaron D. Williams ; 

 and those of Joseph H. Billings and Aaron D. Weld, by 

 their friends. All of these four gentlemen were among 

 the earliest and most active members of the Society. 

 Those of Benjamin P. Cheney and Edwin W. Buswell, 

 who have done valuable service in later years, were also 

 presented by their friends. The bust of Josiah Stick- 

 ney was presented by Charles O. Whitmore, and that 

 of Amos Lawrence, by his son Amos A. Lawrence. 

 That of Theodore Lyman was, as has been before men- 

 tioned, procured by the Society as a memorial of his 

 generous benefactions. 



Returning now to the vestibule, we enter from it the 

 Library Room, a remarkably pleasant room, extending 

 across the whole front of the building, and having three 

 windows on Tremont Street, looking out on the Granary 

 Burying Ground, with its trees and shrubbery, the 

 Tremont House on the right, and Park Street Church 

 on the left, and, when the leaves are fallen from the 

 trees, giving a view of the Athenaeum building and 



