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[Putnam. 
Mr. H. G. Woodward read a paper on the “ Geology of Brigh- 
ton,” which will appear in later pages of the Proceedings. 
General Meeting, March 6, 1889. 
The President, Prof. F. W. Putnam, in the chair. 
The President made the following remarks : — 
Members of the Society 
Since our last meeting we have lost from our number one who 
for thirty-four years has been connected with the Society and taken 
an active part in its work. Charles L. Flint died on February 
25th, in Hillman, Ga., where he was passing the winter. On Mon- 
day last the funeral services were held at his late residence in this 
city, and his body was conveyed to Grafton for burial in the family 
lot. Mr. Flint was born in Middleton, May 8, 1824, where his 
boyhood was passed on a farm. In 1841, he entered the Phillips 
Andover Academy, and afterwards worked his way through Har- 
vard College, graduating in 1849. After teaching for two years 
he returned to Cambridge, where, for two years more, he studied in 
the Law School. On the organization of the State Board of Ag- 
riculture in 1852, the man}?' qualifications of Mr. Flint for the office 
led to his appointment as Secretary of the Board, and in this 
position he did much to encourage and direct the agricultural in- 
terests of the State. During this time he published several prac- 
tical treatises, among the best known of which are his “ Grasses 
and Forage Plants,” “ Milch Cows and Dairy Farming,” and his 
“Manual of Agriculture.” To us he is best known from the in- 
terest which he took in the formation of the State Cabinet of 
Natural History, which for some time was displayed in his office 
at the State House, and was afterwards removed to the Agricultu- 
ral College at Amherst. During the formation of this cabinet, 
Mr. Flint took much interest in natural history, and it was largely 
through his influence that the State ordered the publication of a 
new illustrated edition of Harris’s “Insects Injurious to Vegeta- 
tion,” thus securing, in 1861, the wide circulation of this valuable 
treatise which its importance demanded. Mr. Flint, while thus 
