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Professor W. M. Munson, formerly of Orono, Maine, and a 

 member of the Society since 1894, died at Morgantown, West 

 Virginia, September 9, 1910. 



GEORGE SPRINGALL of Maiden, Massachusetts, a member of the 

 Society since is<>4, died at his home in that city, September 13, 

 1910, in his 89th year. 



Doctor Melchior Teeub, a corresponding member of the 

 Society sine*' 18S9, and Director of the Botanic Gardens of Buiten- 

 zorg, Java, for 29 years, died at St. Raphael, France, October 3, 

 1910, at the age of 59. An accomplished botanist he devoted his 

 life also to the development of the agricultural resources of Java. 



Professor David Pearce Penhallow, a corresponding member 

 of the Society since 18S7, died October 20, 1910. Professor Pen- 

 hallow was born at Kittery, Maine, in 1854. His principal scien- 

 tific work was done as Professor of Botany at McGill University, 

 Montreal, Canada, a position he occupied from the year 1883 until 

 his death. 



John Appleton Burnham, a prominent Boston business man, 

 and a member of the Society since 1899, died at his summer home 

 in Wenham, Massachusetts, November 2, 1910, in his 71st year. 



Prosper J. A. Berckmaxs of Augusta, Georgia, widely known 

 in the horticultural and pomological world, died November S, 

 1910, in his 81st year. Mr. Berckmans was born in Belgium in 

 1830 and came to the United States in 1850. A few years later 

 he located in Augusta, Georgia, where he established what devel- 

 oped into the largest nursery business in the southern states. 



He was one of the founders of the Georgia State Horticultural 

 Society in 1876 and its president from that date to the year of his 

 death. He was elected a corresponding member of the Society 

 in 1869. 



Georok W. TUFTS of Rockport, Massachusetts, died in that 

 town November 28, 1910. He was elected to membership in the 

 Society in 1907. 



GEORGE DOANE Low, a member of the Society since 1902, died 

 in Boston, 1 >ecember 17, 1910, at the age of 81. 



