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in the army and navy throughout the Civil War. He was engaged 

 in a manufacturing business in Andover and joined the Society in 

 1873. 



John Kent, a member of the Society since 1866 died in Boston, 

 October 28, 1908. 



Charles Baltet, the distinguished French horticuUurist of 

 Troyes, France, and a Corresponding Member of the Society since 

 1895, died November 24, 1908, at the age of seventy-eight years. 



He was widely known as a practical cultivator and also as a 

 prolific writer in several lines of horticultural literature. He was, 

 perhaps, best known in this country through his valuable treatise 

 " L'Art de Greffer," a work that has been translated into English 

 under the name of "The Art of Grafting and Budding." 



Donald Grant Mitchell, an Honorary Member of the Society 

 since 1867, died at his home in New Haven, Connecticut, December 

 15, 1908, at the age of eighty-four. 



Under the nom de 'plume of "Ik Marvel" he occupied a conspicu- 

 ous position in American literature. He was always greatly in- 

 terested in horticultural and agricultural matters and early in life 

 bought a farm near New Haven where he indulged his fancy in a 

 practical manner. He wrote much on the subject of the rural 

 life and even ventured to contribute to the agricultural journals 

 articles on the management of the garden and farm. 



