TRANSACTIONS 



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BUSINESS MEETING. 



Saturday, January 3, 1874. 



A stated meeting of the society was holden at 11 o'clock, 

 President Strong in the chair. 



Charles M. Hovey, from the committee, presented the following 

 resolutions on the decease of Prof. Agassiz : — 



Whereas, The Massachusetts Horticultural Society, in the death 

 of Louis Agassiz, has sustained the loss of one whom it was proud 

 to have enrolled among its honorary members, a friend and co- 

 worker in the sciences which come within the sphere and scope of 

 our association ; therefore, 



Resolved, That the members of this society appreciate the life- 

 long labors of Prof. Agassiz, his devotion to all elements enlight- 

 ened and refined, his fidelity to great truths, and his thorough 

 earnestness in a work whose object was to awaken a higher appre- 

 ciation and knowledge of both animate and inanimate creation, as 

 r^f^ealed on land and sea, in field and forest, in valley and on 

 mountain top. 



