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the Hon. John W. Proctor ; and that we recall his long career of 

 usefulness with a feeling of pride, and remember with peculiar 

 pleasure his association with the distinguished men who guided 

 our counsels in the beginning. 



Resolved. That the Secretary of the Society extend to the 

 family and friends of the deceased this mark of the respect 

 which we owe him as one of our most useful and well known as- 

 sociates. 



FRANCIS DANE. 



On the first day of the meeting of the Society, Allen W. 

 Dodge, of Hamilton, made the following remarks on the death 

 of Francis Dane : — 



It seemed to him, said Mr. Dodge, most fitting and proper to 

 pause a few moments and pay a passing tribute to the memory 

 of his townsman so recently deceased, Francis Dane, one of the 

 Trustees of this Society. To-day we sadly miss him from our 

 annual gathering. He was always with us, so full of life and 

 spirits, and taking such an active interest in our proceedings and 

 in the different departments of our Exhibitions. He had a thor- 

 ough love of the soil and of everything pertaining to it. Born 

 and bred on a farm in Hamilton, but drawn from it to the city 

 where he shortly achieved a fortune, his heart seemed bound up 

 in his early home attachments. These and the need of recrea- 

 tion led to the ownership of the old homestead acres, which he 

 largely added to from the adj(;ining lands, and improved and 

 beautified with no stinted expenditure of money. To cultivate 

 his broad acres and to carry out his plans of improvement, gaVe 



