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Milton Andros, formerly of Boston, and a member of the Society 

 since 1858, died at his home in San Francisco, CaUfornia, April 24, 

 1908, at the age of eighty-six. 



John Murray Brown, the head of the well-known publishing 

 house of Little, Brown & Co. of Boston, died at his residence in 

 Belmont, INIassachusetts, April 28, 1908, in the sixty-sixth year of 

 his age. 



He was much interested in horticultural matters and owned a 

 fine estate in Belmont. He became a member of the Society in 1899. 



Ezra Howard Wheeler, a member of the Society since 1902, 

 died in Dorchester, Massachusetts, iNIay 31, 1908. 



JNIr. Wheeler was born in Phillips, jNIaine, October 8, 1840. He 

 enlisted in the army in the Seventeenth Maine Regiment early in 

 the Civil War and saw much active service with the Army of the 

 Potomac. He was severely wounded at the Battle of Chancellors- 

 ville. May 3, 1864. In later years he carried on the drug business 

 in Salmon Falls, New Hampshire, and in Boston. 



Andrew Cunningh.\m Wheelwright died at his home in 

 Boston, June 15, 1908, at the age of eighty-one. He was a graduate 

 of Harvard in the class of 1847 and adopted the profession of the 

 law. He had been a member of the Society since 1864. 



Edward Preble Motley, a member of the Society since 1902, 

 died at his summer residence at Prides Crossing, Massachusetts, 

 July 3, 1908, at the age of forty-eight. 



Mrs. Susan Ames French died at her home in North Easton, 

 Massachusetts, July 20, 1908. She joined the Society in 1905. 



Hon. Warren W\ Rawson, the most widely-known market 

 gardener in the country, died at his home in Arlington, Massachu- 

 setts, August 9, 1908. 



Mr. Rawson was born in Arlington, January 23, 1847. Early 

 in life he began business with his father as a grower of vegetables 

 for the Boston market. In a few years he bought out his father's 

 interest and entered upon the development of the business on a 

 larger scale than had ever been attempted before. 



