No. 4.J THE HARVEST OF THE SEA. 119 



SECOND DAY. 



The meeting was called to order soon after ten o'clock by 

 Secretaiy Sessions, who said : The committee of arrange- 

 ments have asked Mr. F. H. Appleton to preside this 

 morning. He is well known to you all, and does not need 

 an introduction. I will leave the matter in your hands and 

 Mr. Appleton's. 



Mr. Appleton. Mr. Secretary and fellow-members of 

 the Board of Agriculture, I hardly need assure you that it 

 is a pleasure for me to be called upon to preside at a meet- 

 ing of this Board, in which I take so much personal interest, 

 at any time ; but it is an especial pleasure to me to preside 

 over a meeting in this locality, which has so much natural 

 beauty and attractiveness about it. I take pleasure in intro- 

 ducing to you a gentleman who is familiar to you for his 

 energetic efforts for the good of this Board, — Mr. Bowker 

 of Boston. 



