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tutions in Boston and Cambridge, until the year 1891 when he 

 was elected Treasurer of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, 

 resigning in 1907 on account of his impaired health. He was an 

 expert accountant and his business relations with the Society won 

 for him the utmost confidence of its members and were always 

 characterized by the strictest fidelity. 



He was especially interested in fruits and was particularly well 

 informed on the names of varieties of pears. 



George Nicholson, a Corresponding Member of the Society 

 since 1889, died September 20, 1908. 



Mr. Nicholson was the Curator of the famous Kew Gardens in 

 England for many years. He was especially known throughout the 

 horticultural world as the editor of "The Illustrated Dictionary of 

 Gardening," the first edition of which was published in 1891. This 

 work was the standard cyclopaedia of horticulture in this country 

 as well as in England until the publication of Bailey's "Cyclopaedia 

 of American Horticulture" in 1900. 



Joshua Coolidge of Watertown, Massachusetts, died at his' 

 home there September 25, 1908, in the ninety-sixth year of his age. 

 He had been a member of the Society since 1873. 



Andrew Washburn of Hyde Park, Massachusetts, died Sep- 

 tember 28, 1908, at the age of seventy-eight. Major Washburn 

 was a graduate of Harvard in the Class of 1852 and served in the 

 Civil War in the years 1861 and 1862. He became a member of 

 the Society in 1881. 



John C. Daly, a member of the Society since 1899 died at his 

 home in Roxbury, Massachusetts, in September, 1908. 



William Lumb, who joined the Society in 1874, died at his 

 home in Brighton, Massachusetts, October 9, 1908, in his eighty- 

 ninth year. ]\Ir. Lumb was born in Yorkshire, England, and came 

 to the United States in 1840. In 1848 he established a plumbing 

 business in Boston which he carried on for more than half a century. 



George W. W. Dove, of Andover, Massachusetts, died in that 

 town, October 24, 1908, at the age of seventy-three. He served 



