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uting to our pleasures and comfort ; and our thanks will l)e 

 incomplete unless they include the great courtesy extended 

 us last night by our generous entertainers, Mr. and Mrs. 

 Chas. N. Prouty, and the citizens generally of Spencer. 



The motion was adopted unanimously by a rising vote. 



Secretary Sessions. Mr. Chairman, I would suggest that 

 our friend Mr. Avery inform Mr. Prouty of the action of the 

 meeting. 



The Chairman. The Chair will request Mr. Avery to 

 inform the o'cntleman of the action of the meetino;. 



Mr. Avery. Mr. Chairman, when I extended the invita- 

 tion to the State Board to meet here, several members of the 

 Board approached me and asked me where Spencer was, and 

 how they were going to get there ; and I began to think 

 they feared they would meet with the experience that we 

 read the man did in sacred history that went down to 

 Jericho. I hope those men are happily disappointed. If 

 we have done anything to make your stay here pleasant and 

 agreeable, we feel as though we had only done our duty. 

 Mr. Prouty said to me at noon down at the hotel that if the 

 State Board would come here another year, as we had just 

 had a taste of them, we would fill this hall to overflowins:. 



The Chairman. Gentlemen, the next paper to be pre- 

 sented to-day is upon the " Work of the Gypsy Moth Com- 

 mittee," and I now have the pleasure of introducing to you 

 Mr. E. H. FoRBUSH, the director of the field work. 



