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and a member of the Society since 1865, died at his home in Newton 

 Highlands, April 8, 1906, at the age of eighty-four. 



Mr. Smith, though actively engaged in business affairs in Boston, 

 was much interested in horticultural pursuits. 



Professor Nathaniel Southgate Shaler died at his home 

 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, April 10, 1906, in the sixty-fifth 

 year of his age. He became a member of the Society in 1898 and 

 served as a member of the Committee on Forestry and Roadside 

 Improvement for the five years follo\nng. 



Prof. Shaler was bom in Newport, Kentucky, February 20, 1841. 

 During the Ci\dl War he served two years as captain in a Union 

 Kentucky Battery, and in 1864 'was appointed an instructor in 

 paleontology and geology at Harvard University, becoming a 

 professor in these sciences in 1868. 



He was a man of great intellectual activity, an author of note, 

 and a teacher capable of inspiring interest and enthusiasm among 

 his students. 



Baron C. R. von Osten Sacken, an honorary member of the 

 Society since 1879, died at Heidelberg, Germany, May 20, 1906, 

 in the seventy-eighth year of his age. 



He was an eminent entomologist, and was elected an honorary 

 member of the Society during his term of office as secretary of the 

 Russian Legation at Washington. He was born at St. Petersburg, 

 Russia, August 21, 1828. 



Edward Knowles Butler died at his residence in Jamaica 

 Plain, Massachusetts, June 9, 1906, in his seventy-sixth year. 



Mr. Butler was born in Falmouth, July 8, 1830, and came to 

 Boston at an early age to engage in business. He was much inter- 

 ested in horticultural matters and became a member of the Society 

 in 1883. 



Frederick A. Blake of Rochdale, Massachusetts, died at his 

 home in that town July 1, 1906, at the age of sixty-five years. 



Mr. Blake, although a business man, was an enthusiastic and 

 successful horticulturist, ^^hile his horticultural interests were 



