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formerl}^ the Hunt estate, which was afterwards his home. Mr. 

 Hovey said that the circle to which Mr. Stickney belonged was 

 narrowing, and he wished to place on record his admiration for 

 so good a man. 



Marshall P. Wilder said that he had been cognizant of Mr. 

 Stickney's life for many years, and that he was not only an 

 enthusiastic cultivator of the dahlia, but afterwards became equally 

 interested in the culture of fruit, especially the pear. In this 

 department he was a most careful observer, and a practical culti- 

 vator, continuing to ascend his trees after his friends thought it 

 imprudent, on account of his age. He had frequent consultations 

 with Mr. Wilder as to how he could best render material aid to 

 the objects of the Society, which resulted in putting into his will 

 a clause devising his beautiful estate in Watertown to the Society, 

 for an Experimental Garden, an object deemed of the first impor- 

 tance by the founders of the Society. This provision stood for 

 fifteen or twenty years, when Mr. Stickney became convinced that 

 it would be wiser to bestow the contemplated gift in aid of the 

 Library, and accordingly, in 1869, he established the "Stickney 

 Fund." At the time of his death he had attained a greater age 

 than any other member of the Society, except Dr. Jacob Bigelow 

 and Cheever Newhall. 



The resolutions were unanimously adopted. 



On recommendation of the Executive Committee, 

 Robert M. Barnard, of Everett, 



was elected a Life Member, and the following named persons were 

 elected as Corresponding Members : 



Dr. Joseph D. Hooker, Director of the Royal Botanic Garden, 

 Kew, England. 



James McNab, Curator of the Botanic Garden, Edinburgh. 



J. Li den, Ghent, Belgium. 



Edouard Morren, Liege, Belgium. 



Adjourned to Saturday, May 6. 



