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that have been, and are being evolved from a simple beginning. 

 Botany and geology are supplying the means by which the life of 

 bygone days is revivified, enabling us to interpret the structure 

 and relations of fruit plants long extinct. ''We are living now 

 as in a twilight of knowledge, charged with sublime revelations ; 

 «o also are we looking for more light, which shall reveal perfect 

 order." "While the influence of cultivation alters the peculiar 

 nature of fruit plants ; so will they continue to exist and grow 

 under favorable conditions of life ; but when these are changed, 

 they will languish and cease to be stable and profitable varieties. 



At the conclusion of the lecture a vote of thanks was passed to 

 Mr. Bourn for his paper. 



Notice was given that on Saturday, January' 19, F. L. Temple, 

 of Somerville, would read a paper on " The Nurseries of Europe," 

 many of which he visited last summer. 



BUSINESS MEETING. 



Saturday, January 19, 1889. 



An adjourned meeting of the Societ}^ was holden at half-past 

 eleven o'clock, the President, Henry P. Walcott, in the chair. 



The President announced the following Committee to nominate 

 delegates to the meeting of the American Pomological Society : 

 William C. Strong, Frank W. Andrews, Stiles Frost, Robert 

 Manning, and Benjamin G. Smith. 



The Committee subsequently reported the following list of 

 delegates : 



President Henry P. Walcott, 



Hon. Frederick Smyth, David B. Flint, 



William C. Strong, Elijah H. Luke, 



Charles H. B. Breck, Edward Kendall, 



William H. Spooner, Jacob W. Manning, 



Charles L. Flint, Felker L. Temple, 



Frank W. Andrews, Horace Eaton, 



O. B. Hadwen, George W. Fowle, 



Stiles Frost, Benjamin P. Ware, 



Chauncy Smith, Francis H. Appleton, 



Robert Manning, Benjamin G. Smith. 



