346 BOARD OP AGRICULTURE. 



Dr. LoRiNG submitted a report as delegate to the Union 

 Society. 



The fact that it was in contemplation to lay out a road across 

 the Agricultural College farm having been brought to the atten- 

 tion of the Board, it was — 



Resolved, That in the opinion of the State Board of Agricul- 

 ture it is not desirable that a highway should be run through 

 the centre of the college farm, nor near the buildings on the 

 farm, and that if a road has to be laid across any part of the 

 farm it should be at a point most remote from the buildings. 



The several reports of delegates and the various essays that 

 had been submitted and laid over, were then read a second time 

 by their titles and adopted. 



Mr. Bradford, Chairman of the Committee on the Necrology 

 of the Board, submitted the following: — 



IN MEMORY OF JAMES THOMPSON. 



All of the members of this Board have known and highly 

 respected James Thompson, Esq., our late associate from Nan- 

 tucket. The fact of his death has been feelingly announced to 

 us by the Hon. Marshall P. Wilder, and we have passed appro- 

 priate resolutions to be entered upon our records, and the Com- 

 mittee on the Necrology of the Board desire now to present a 

 brief tribute to his memory. 



The appointment of this Committee met his hearty approval 

 at the last annual meeting. But he hardly realized that his 

 name would be the first enrolled upon our record since its for- 

 mation, as having " passed to that bourne from whence no 

 traveller returns," — but such is life ; we are here to-day in 

 health ; to-morrow we are gone, and in the language of inspira- 

 tion, " the mourners go about the streets." 



James Thompson was born on the island of Nantucket, 

 August 10, 1819. He was the youngest of three brothers, sons 

 of James Thompson and Diana (Gibbs) Thompson. They were 

 respectable farmers, of good Puritan stock, and came to the 

 island from Plymouth County. They gave their children the 

 usual common school privileges of the times. The subject of 



