EULOGY. XVU 



BuEL, by electing him an honorary member. As exam- 

 ples of this, and also to show the laudable efforts that 

 have been made to form agricultural and horticultural 

 societies, I would mention the following : 



In 1821, he was elected a member of the Massachu- 

 setts Agricultural Society ; in 1829, of the Horticultural 

 Society of that State ; in 1830, of the Monroe Horticul- 

 tural Society, at Rochester ; in 1831, of the Charleston 

 Horticultural Society, in South Carolina'^; in 1832, of 

 the Hampshire, Franklin, and Hampden, Society, in 

 Massachusetts, and of the Hamilton County Agricultural 

 Society, at Cincinnati ; in 1833, of the Tennessee Agri- 

 cultural and Horticultural Societies ; in 1834, of the 

 Horticultural Society of the District of Columbia ; in 



1838, of the Philadelphia Society of Agriculture ; and in 



1839, of the Albemarle Agricultural Society. In 1838, 

 he was chosen President of the Horticultural Society of 

 the Valley of the Hudson. He has been several times 

 elected President of the State Agricultural Society. 



Distinctions, similar to those already mentioned, have 

 been conferred upon him by foreign and transatlantic 

 Societies. In 1833, he was chosen a corresponding 

 member of the Lower Canada Agricultural Society ; in 

 1834, of the London and New- York Horticultural Soci- 

 eties. In 1830, he was chosen an honorary member of 

 the State Society of Statisques Universelles, at Paris ; 

 and in 1836, he was chosen a corresponding member of 

 the Royal and Central Society of Agriculture, at Paris. 



Let it, however, by no means, be supposed, that Judge 

 Buel's mental efforts were confined exclusively to agri- 

 culture and horticulture. In his view, man was born for 

 higher purposes than merely to produce and consume the 

 products of the earth. The motto to his ' Cultivator' 

 was " To improve the soil, and the mind.''^ Of what 

 real utility are all the enjoyments of mere physical exis- 

 tence, unaccompanied by the higher delights of a mental 

 being ? No man more fully realized the force of this, 

 than Judge Buel. His system of education, however, 

 like his system of agriculture, was eminently practical ; 

 and, like that, too, it would endeavor to strengthen the 

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