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Apart from these valuable services, Mr. Emerson who was, like 

 Louis Agassiz, a noted Educator as well as Naturalist, prepared the 

 well-known "Memorial of the American Institute of Instruction 

 to the Massachusetts Legislature" and himself placed it in the 

 hands of the Governor. The result of this course was the formation 

 in April, 1837, of the Board of Education with Horace Mann, then 

 President of the Senate, and a member of our Society, as its Secre- 

 tary. The cause of Education took a new departure from this time 

 forth, and the good effect of this action in which Mr. Emerson was 

 prominent was inestimable. Thus, early in the history of the Society 

 were the causes of Science and Education intimately associated in 

 the persons and policies of its members. 



As evidence of the position which the Society had won for itself 

 fifty years ago stands the fact that instruction was given to a class 

 of students from Boston University in Biology and Zoology: to a 

 class of students from the Institute of Technology in Zoology and 

 Paleontology : and to a special class of the teachers of the Public 

 Schools in Zoology. Apart from these formal classes the laboratory 

 room and its working collections were used by persons engaged in 

 teaching or studying. 



The Eighteenth Milestone 



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IN April, 1847, Dr. Samuel Cabot in behalf of a Committee to whom 

 had been allotted the duty of seeking for the Society a suitable 

 edifice for its purpose reported that the building in Mason Street 

 known as the Massachusetts Medical College was for sale at a rea- 

 sonable price and that after a thorough examination they judged 

 it capable of being adapted perfectly to the wants of the Society. 

 They, therefore, recommended its purchase and that the necessary 



