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actively engaged in its work. He was a member of the Committee 

 on Vegetables from 1867 to 1883 and from 1895 to 1904, a service 

 of twenty-seven years, and was also a member of the Committee 

 of Arrangements for several years. 



He was a constant contributor to the exhibitions of the Society 

 of fruits and vegetables from his extensive farm in Arlington, and 

 with his practical experience his services as a judge were of great 

 A-alue to the Society and were much appreciated by his fellow mem- 

 bers on the committee. 



Mr. Russell was born in Charlestown, Massachusetts, September 

 10, 1831, and died at his home in Arlington, February 21, 1905, 

 at the age of seventy-four years. 



Hon. George Sew all Boutwell, an Honorary Member of 

 the Society since 1851, died at his home in Groton, Massachusetts, 

 February 27, 1905. 



Mr. Boutwell was born in Brookline, Massachusetts, January 

 28, 1818, and from a humble beginning, by the strength of his 

 character and the force of his mental ability, was called to high 

 offices in the service of his state and nation. He was Governor 

 of Massachusetts in 1851 and 1852; was appointed Secretary of 

 the Treasury by President Grant in 1869; and was elected to the 

 Senate of the United States in 1873, continuing until 1877. 



Always interested in agricultural matters he rendered eflScient 

 aid in the establishment of the Massachusetts State Board of 

 Agriculture which was organized during his administration as 

 Governor. 



Henry Ranford Reed, a member of the Society since 1899, 

 died in New York, March 14, 1905. 



Mr. Reed was born in Chelmsford, Massachusetts, August 23, 

 1837. He came to Boston at the age of eighteen years and entered 

 into the grocery business, afterward becoming identified with the 

 firm of Nash, Spaulding & Co., sugar refiners, of which firm he 

 was the senior partner at the time of his death. 



J. Philip Rinn was elected to membership in the Society in 

 1882. He was born in Germany, August 21, 1837, and died in 

 Boston, March 17, 1905. 



