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the synonymy carefully worked out. There is as yet no complete 

 work of the kind for any part of the United States which surpasses it, 

 and it will ever remain a laud-mark in the ichthyological literature of 

 the country ; for it is a storehouse of facts, and it was the successful 

 collecting and simple presentation of facts whi^h made the volumes 

 of several of the earlier commissioners — Harris, Gould, Storer, and 

 Emerson — models of what natural history work of permanent value 

 should be. 



Dr. Storer's other considerable publication, the " Synopsis of the 

 Fishes of North America," a quarto volume of nearly three hundred 

 pages, published in 1846, is of less value, because distinctly a work of 

 compilation, and he was not so skilled in the niceties of classification 

 as in the descriptions of the different specific forms and the study of 

 their histories; but it was the first considerable attempt to collate 

 existing material, and as such it had its importance and convenience. 



A man full of enthusiasm and sympathy, fearless, impulsive and 

 generous, high-minded, high-spirited, and with a noble scorn of any- 

 thing mean, deceitful, or unjust, Dr. Storer endeared himself alike to 

 pupils and associates. No one who has known him will forget the 

 open, brilliant expression of his mobile countenance, his piercing, 

 friendly eye, the quick, impulsive speech, full of force and geniality ; 

 he was a friend worth making a sacrifice for, and not to be forgotten. 

 In 1829, he married Abigail Jane Brewer, sister of the ornithologist, 

 the late Dr. T. M. Brewer, by whom he had three sons and two 

 daughters. His wife died in 1885. His children survive him; two 

 of his sons have distinguished themselves in science, and have been 

 elected to membership in this Academy. Dr. Storer was the recipient 

 of many honors in his medical profession, a member of many learned 

 societies, and received from his Alma Mater the degree of Doctor of 

 Laws in 1876. At the time of his death he was the oldest physician 

 in Boston. 



CYRUS MOORS WARREN. 



Cyrus Moors Warren was born at Fox Hill, West Dedham, 

 Massachusetts, January 15, 1824. He died at Manchester, Vermont, 

 August, 13, 1891. He was a remarkably well defined example of that 

 particular type of the American character which has been admirably 

 depicted by Mr. Henry James in one of his best known novels. 

 Bold, ready, persistent, intelligent, with unusual aptitude for business 

 and for the affairs of ordinary life, and possessing decided administra- 



