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We cannot, therefore, permit this occasion to pass without 

 placing on record some expression of our appreciation of his 

 virtues and our high respect for his character and memory. 

 Therefore 



Resolved, That in the death of Mr. Hill this Society has lost 

 one of its best cultivators and most respected members ; one who 

 always felt a deep and abiding interest in its welfare and pros- 

 perity. 



Resolved, That, remembering his sterling worth as a man, his 

 rare integrity and puritj^ of character, his fidelity and generous 

 hearted devotion to the interests and welfare of our association, 

 our hearts are made sad by his removal from the scenes of his 

 earthly labors. Though dead he still lives in the hearts of not a 



few, for he lived 



" Scattering seeds of kindness 

 For the reaping by-and-by." 



Resolved, That these resolutions be entered on our records, 

 and that a copy be transmitted to the family of the deceased with 

 the assurance of our warmest sympathy in their sad bereavement. 



Charles N. Brackett, ^ 



Henrt W. Wilson, > Committee. 



Warren Heustis. ) 



The resolutions were unanimously adopted. 



Edmund Hersey, Chairman of the Committee appointed some 

 years ago to collect information in regard to Large or Interesting 

 Trees in New England, stated that the Committee had collected 

 considerable material, but they desired to make the work credit- 

 able to the Society, and therefore had had a circular printed 

 asking for information on the subject committed to them, copies 

 of which were upon the table for distribution to the members and 

 others. 



The Secretary presented a letter from the Spencer Farmers' and 

 Mechanics' Association accepting the invitation to appoint one of 

 their members who should have the free use of the Library and 

 Library Room during the 3'ear 1890, for the purpose of preparing 

 essays to be read at Farmers' Institutes, and announcing that Mr. 

 J. G. Avery, of Spencer, had been so appointed. 



Adjourned to Saturday, March 22, 1890, at half-past eleven 

 o'clock. 



