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It was by James E. Teschemacher, corresponding secre- 

 tary of the Society, who gave an interesting account 

 of his experiments in treating plants with guano. Sev- 

 eral of these plants, intended to illustrate the address, 

 were placed in the exhibition. 



In the evening of the same day the first Triennial 

 Festival of the Society was held at Concert Hall. More 

 than two hundred persons sat down to the tables ; and 

 the occasion was remarkable as being the first to which 

 ladies had been invited. " The illumination of the 

 spacious room ; the walls covered with festoons of flow- 

 ers ; the tables loaded with the most delicious fruits ; 

 the dulcet notes of a full band of music ; and the crown- 

 ing beauty of all, the presence of lovely woman, - 

 gave to the whole picture more the appearance of 

 Eastern fiction than of sober reality." The principal 

 addresses were made by President Wilder; Jonathan 

 Chapman, Mayor of Boston ; Josiah Quincy, President 

 of Harvard University ; Rev. Hubbard Winslow ; Hon. 

 Charles M. Conrad, United States Senator from Lou- 

 isiana ; Hon. Abbott Lawrence ; Hon. Josiah Quincy, 

 jun.; Horace Mann, Secretary of the Board of Education ; 

 Hon. Thomas Kinnicutt, Speaker of the Massachusetts 

 House of Representatives ; Hon. J. T. Austin, Attorney 

 General of the Commonwealth ; J. T. Buckingham, 

 President of the Bunker Hill Monument Association; 

 Hon. William Sturgis ; and Charles M. Hovey. A 

 letter was read from Gen. Dearborn, and a song written 

 for the occasion by J. H. Warland was sung. Other 

 songs and many sentiments were given ; and the enter- 

 tainment was closed by the singing of an ode to the 

 tune of " Auld Lang Syne," written by the late T. G. 

 Fessenden for a previous anniversary, entitled " The 

 Course of Culture." 



