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Horticultural Library, 

 Worcester, December 16, 1896. 



Special meeting of the Trustees to take such action as might be 

 deemed appropriate upon the death of the late Edward Winslow 

 Lincoln, Secretary of the Society. 



President O. B. Hadwen in the chair. Meeting called to order at 

 2.30 o'clock P. M. 



President Hadwen said — 



Gentlemen of the Trustees : — 



We notice with profound regret and painful solicitude the absence 

 for the first time for thirty-five years of the stalwart form and see the 

 vacant chair of our late Secretary. It seems hardly possible that one 

 so large hearted, so useful, so much esteemed and respected should 

 have thus been summoned acx'oss the dark river, nearly the last of his 

 generation, but the first of our Society. One who has been always 

 present upon the recurrence of the annual meetings of the Society 

 and Trustees. 



The science, the practice, and the literature of horticulture has been 

 vastly augmented by the benefactions emanating from his annual 

 reports to this Society. Horticulture has gained in solid development 

 and its interests widely extended by his untiring work. His accom- 

 plished pen has marvellously well chronicled the past, — who shall 

 answer for the future? 



We meet to-day to express our deepest sorrow at our loss, and our 

 sincere condolence in this sad bereavement to his family ; and all citi- 

 zens of Worcester saddened by a sense of personal bereavement 

 extend their heartfelt sympathy. 



George E. Francis, M.D., offered the following resolutions: 



As Trustees of the Worcester County Horticultural Society we desire to 

 place on record our deep sense of the great loss sustained by ourselves, the 



