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Mr. Rinn was a prominent architect of Boston, and among his 

 creations in this vicinity are the Goddard Chapel Building of Tufts 

 College and the residence of Francis B. Hayes at Lexington, a 

 former president of this Society. 



William Paul, a Corresponding Member of the Society since 

 1875, died at his home at Waltham Cross, Herts, England, IMarch 

 31, 1905. 



Mr. Paul was born June 16, 1822, at Church-gate, Cheshnut, 

 England, where his father had established a garden in 1806. He 

 succeeded to his father's business in 1847 and afterward removed 

 to Herts, where he established in 1860 the celebrated ^Yaltham 

 Cross Nurseries, extending the business enormously. He was 

 especially interested in roses and among the novelties he introduced 

 the Magna Charta is the best known in this country. 



To the world at large Mr. Paul was fully as well known as an 

 author and writer on horticultural subjects. He published books 

 on rose culture and on general gardening and was an interesting 

 and instructive contributor to the horticultural press. 



^YILLIAM Sturgis Hooper Lothrop of Boston died in Ponce, 

 Porto Rico, April 5, 1905, at the age of thirty-four years. He 

 was elected a member of the Society in 1896. 



John Parker, formerly of Roxbury, Massachusetts, died in 

 Newtonville, April 16, 1905, at the age of eighty-nine years. He 

 became a member of the Society in 1864. 



Mr. Parker was born in Charlestown, Massachusetts, December 

 4, 1815. On the death of his father when he was seven years old 

 he went to live with a farmer in South Reading (now Wakefield), 

 where he remained until he was fourteen. He then entered the 

 home of Samuel Williams of Roxbury as an apprentice to learn the 

 gilder's trade, and was in the employ of Williams & Everett over 

 sixty years. 



While steadily attending to his business he spent many hours 

 in his garden, raising fruits and flowers, and exhibited at Horti- 

 cultural Hall many of his choicest productions. He took many 

 prizes for his dahlias which he was especially fond of cultivating 



