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President Parkman then remarked that the Society owed a great 

 deal of its prosperity to Theodore Lyman, and it gave him pleasure 

 to present to the company a sou of that gentleman, Colonel Theo- 

 dore Lyman. 



Colonel Lyman said that he had been introduced as somebody's 

 son, and no greater disadvantage could befall a man on an occasion 

 like this, for immediately all the elderly people began to prick up 

 their ears and open their eyes in the expectation of seeing some 

 similarity between the father and son, but in a great many cases they 

 were disappointed. Something had been said about Lee's sur- 

 render, and that he had a share in bringing it about, and people 

 expected to see a man with a small share of arms, with no legs in 

 particular, and a terrible scar across his face ; and if he were not 

 like this — if he were not a sort of General Bartlett, with not 

 much left but his head and his heart, why people looked on him as 

 an impostor. Col. Lyman concluded with an ingenious argument 

 to prove that this was the oldest country in the world ; that we 

 had created a fertile soil out of sand — in fact, made something out 

 of nothing. 



Rev. Asa Bullard, President of the Cambridge Horticultural 

 Society, was the next speaker, and took for his theme the concen- 

 tration of labor on the land. Addresses were also made by Prof. 

 Gray, Judge Putnam, Rev. A. B. Muzzey, Ex-President J. F. C. 

 Hyde, Vice Presidents H. Weld Fuller and P. Brown Hovey ; C. 

 H. B. Breck, Chairman of the Committee of Arrangements ; E. W. 

 Buswell, Treasurer, and Hervey Davis, Chairman of the Fruit Com- 

 mittee. A poem written for the occasion was read by Edward S. 

 Rand, Jr., and the exercises were concluded at an early hour by 

 the singing of " Auld Lang Syne," by the company. 



