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He was a civil engineer by profession and had charge of many 

 important works in Boston and in other parts of the country. He 

 was interested in military matters and served in the Civil War as an 

 officer of the Sixth Massachusetts Regiment. 



He was prominent in the affairs of the Society and deeply inter- 

 ested in its welfare, serving from 1885 to 1903, a period of nineteen 

 years, as a member of the Committee on Gardens. 



Dr. INIaxwell T. Masters, for forty-one years editor of the 

 'Gardeners' Chronicle, London, died at his residence at Ealing, 

 England, May 30, 1907, at the age of seventy-four. He was 

 •elected a corresponding member of the Society in 1869. 



Dr. Masters was a notable figure in horticultural journalism and 

 in addition to his editorial work on the Chronicle was the author 

 of numerous publications on botany and horticulture of which 

 especially should be mentioned his papers on the Coniferse and his 

 volume on Vegetable Teratology. 



John Hill, a member of the Society since 1865, died at Chester 

 Depot, Vermont, June 3, 1907. Mr. Hill was born at Stoneham, 

 Massachusetts, January 23, 1822. He was a great lover of fine 

 fruits and flowers and in his younger days used to cultivate them 

 extensively. 



\YiLLL\M Cains, a member of the Society since 1845, died in 

 Boston, June 8, 1907, at the age of ninety-two years and eleven 

 months. 



He was probably the last survivor of the membership of the 

 Society for that year and was for many years engaged in the manu- 

 facture of glassware at South Boston, an industry established by 

 his father in 1812. 



Stephen Van Renssel.\er Thayer of Boston died at Vichy, 

 France, June 24, 1907, at the age of thirty-seven. He was elected 

 a member of the Society in 1899. 



Daniel E. Chase of Somerville, formerly of Watertown, INIassa- 

 chusetts, died at Potter Place, New Hampshire, July 12, 1907. 



