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Secretary Gold's active connection with tliis Society from 

 its foundation is well known, no less than his splendid life's 

 work in Ijehalf of Connecticut agriculture, The following 

 minute of respect and sympathy was adopted by the Society 

 at an institute held in New Britain March 21, the day follow- 

 ing the news of Air. Gold's death, and is appended herewith 

 because of lack of time to prepare a more suitable memorial 

 The full sketch of Air. Gold's life and work must be reserved 

 for our next volume. 



"This Institute Meeting- of the Pomolo,gical Society and 

 Burritt Grange of Connecticut having learned of the recent 

 death of Theodore Sedgwick Gold, so long and intimately 

 connected with everx movement for the advancement of Con- 

 necticut agriculture, desires to place on record its appreciation 

 of the value of such a life as his, and the sense of personal 

 loss which comes to its members in his death. 



"It is not easy to imagine that anyone interested in pro- 

 gressive agriculture in Connecticut could have failed to know 

 T. S. Gold, and to know him was to love him. 



''His nature was so kindly, his fund of information so large 

 and varied, his reasoning so clear and sound, his faculty of 

 communication so ready and forcible, that it was hardly pos- 

 sible to be in his company without being benefited thereby. 



"In the other relations of life, as a Christian citizen, as a 

 neighbor, as a husband and father, he fulfilled the highest 

 ideals. 



"His was a rounded and complete life. 



"It is a matter for rejoicing and congratulation that such 

 a man has lived among us, and that it has been our fortune 

 to have known him. 



"We express our sympathies and condolences to the sur- 

 viving members of his family, but with them we mingle con- 

 gratulations that they have possessed his life, and still have 

 its precious memories." 



