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of your labors, we ask you to meet with us at Wesleyan Hall, on Monday, Juno 



22d, at three o'clock, p. m., for this purpose. 



We are your obedient servants, 



Charles Francis Adams, T. W. Parsons, 

 James Walker, Theodore Lyman, 



George T. Bigelow, Henry A. Whitney, 



Henry W. Longfellow, James M. Barnard, 

 Richard H. Dana, Jr., George S. Hale, 

 Charles W. Eliot, Martin Brimmer, 



George M. Lane, William Gray, 



Wolcott Gibbs, W. G. Weld, 



H. L. Eustis, J. H. Dix, 



O. W. Holmes, Alexander Agassiz, 



and others. 



The late Hon. Richard H. Dana presided, introducing an eloquent 

 address by Dr. Gould, and in his words of welcome said : 



We have met to express our respect to him for his learning and abilities, and 

 the courageous manner in which he has devoted them to this new field of inves- 

 tigation banished from home, and from every association which his childhood 

 and manhood had made most dear to him. . . . We feel now that there exists a 

 bond between that great republic of the South and our own that she has shown 

 the same spirit of enterprise that has caused our own advance and we rejoice 

 that through their honored President, Sarmiento, the man of science was invited 

 from this country, who should open some of those great fields of exploration 

 for which her wide territory and cloudless skies present such facilities. Our 

 sympathy and our admiration should be expressed toward the people of the 

 Argentine Republic, and we trust that Dr. Gould will give them to understand 

 that the citizens of his native State have a strong feeling of respect and grati- 

 tude to them for the paths they have opened and the progress they have made. 



It is in these regions, so little known, that Dr. Gould has been laboring for 

 four years, a missionary of science, under strange skies, as well as on foreign 

 soil, among a new people ; and on his return to his native town we are met to 

 give him a cordial welcome, to express our pride that he has secured this oppor- 

 tunity to the honor of American science, of New England and of Boston. 



Dr. Gould is a member of the Royal Astronomical Society of 

 London, of the French Academy of Sciences, of the Academy of St. 

 Petersburg, as well as of the American Academy of Science, and many 

 other learned bodies. He has given to the world works which will be 

 classical, and in the history of his country his name will stand among 

 those of the most illustrious savants w r ho have contributed to the de- 

 velopment and advancement of science. 



Dr. Gould was married October 29, 1861, to Mary Apthorp Quincy, 

 a helpmate without whom his long expatriation would have been a 

 banishment, and without whose sympathy and active assistance his 

 greatest labors would have been impossible. 



