360 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Pub. Doc. 



The committee on credentials of newly elected members 

 reported the following : — 



Barnstable County, John Bursley of West Barnstable. 



Franklin County, J. C. Newhall of Conway. 



Hampshire, L. W. West of Hadley. 



Martha's Vineyard, N. S. Shaler of Cambridge. 



Massachusetts, Henry S. Russell of Milton. 



Middlesex North, A. C. Varnum of Lowell. 



Oxford, John E. Kimball of Oxford. 



Spencer, Edward Warren of Leicester. 



Union, G. C. Rowley of Blandford. 



Worcester North-west, Wm. H. Bowker of Boston. 



Worcester South, G. L. Clemence of Southbridge. 



The Governor of the Commonwealth, who is a member 

 of the Board, came in at four o'clock, but declined to take 

 the chair as president, preferring to sit with the Board as a 

 member thereof. 



Mr. Grinnell, for the committee to prepare resolutions on 

 the death of E. F. Bowditch of Framingham, late chairman 

 of the executive committee of this Board, reported the fol- 

 lowing : — 



Resolved, By the members of the Massachusetts Board of Agri- 

 culture, that, in the seemingly untimely death of E. F. Bowditch 

 of Framingham, a member of this Board, the Commonwealth has 

 lost one of its noblest citizens, the farmers one of their most 

 earnest, devoted and useful co-workers, and we of this body one 

 of our most diligent, delightful and valuable members, whose 

 genial presence lightened our meetings with cheerfulness, and who, 

 by his full acquaintance with all agricultural subjects, his admi- 

 rable faculty of conveying to others his opinions and the results of 

 his varied experience, and by the sweetness of his disposition 

 toward any differing from him in expression of views, brought 

 activity, strength and harmony into our counsels. 



Having acquired a thorough knowledge of all varieties of prac- 

 tical farming, with a mind educated to study and apply theoretical 

 consideration, with a splendid personal carriage, with great indi- 

 vidual magnetism, and the capacity of putting himself in ready 

 communication with his hearers in all conditions of life, by his 

 clear, explicit and forcible language, he was one of the most useful 



