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the Cyclopedia of American Horticulture, and edited Practical Agriculture 
(James). 
My own sense of loss through the death of Professor Craig has been 
very great, for it was my good fortune to be associated with him for years* 
first, as a boy in his classes, and later, as a graduate student and; assistant. 
He was a man who took a warm personal interest in all his students, no 
matter how brief their connection with him or how slight their claim upon 
him. His house was always open to them, and the spirit of generous hos- 
pitality which pervaded it will long be remembered. 
It is impossible to speak of John Craig without referring to the courage 
and patience with which he endured the years of suffering, often extremely 
intense, which terminated with his death. Through long continued illness, 
from which there was little hope of recovery, he never permitted his feelings 
to be noticed, or to affect in the slightest degree his work or his relations 
with those about him. He gave his lectures, received students, entertained 
his friends, went out in society, where his brilliance and charm made him 
much in demand, and all so cheerfully that the effort it cost him was never 
suspected. 
His scientific attainments speak for themselves, and no further word is 
necessary. But John Craig was more than a scientist — it was not alone 
for the help which was always ready for them that all over the state thou- 
sands of men feel his death as a personal loss. He was a man among men, 
a friend to them, who visited their farms, and met the problems o>f each 
individual with unfailing sympathy and discernment. It was this warmly 
human quality, the tremendous outreaching of his enthusiasm and interest,, 
no less than his distinguished achievements in the field of Horticulture, 
which made John Craig a national figure. 
C. S. W. 
William Rufus Mann. 
With the death of Mr. Mann, which occurred April 10, 1912, at his 
home, Sharon, Mass., this society lost another of its oldest life members. 
His membership and association from 1871 tied those of us today with the 
times of our first President, Marshall P. Wilder, and it was one of Mr. 
Mann’s delights to extoll the many virtues of that splendid man and re- 
late to the younger members incidents of interest connected with the early 
meetings of the society. At the time of his death Mr. Mann was eighty- 
eight years and five months of age. Up to the time of his very last serious 
illness Mr. Mann was keenly interested in all matters pertaining to his 
social, business and public interests. During his later years deafness made 
it impracticable to gain much from the meetings of the society; accord- 
ingly his interest in its work has been manifest chiefly through corre- 
spondence. 
In Mr. Mann’s home life there was exemplified the finest traits of his 
Puritan-pilgrim ancestry and Sharon’s loss through his death is felt keenly 
and deeply. A wife and son survive him, and while an honored and honor- 
able citizen of Massachusetts has departed he has left the imprint of his 
mind and character on behalf of morality, honor, integrity and industry 
