Milestones 17 



President Thomas T. Bouve: "The country was involved in a war 

 which, by rapidly wasting its resources, threatened alike its national 

 prosperity and its progress in Art, Science, and Literature. There 

 was sadness in the hearts of men and an undefined evil pervading 

 their minds, tending to concentrateallthoughtupon the movements 

 of armies and the tidings ofeonflict. Thank God there was an unfal- 

 tering faith in the final success of the struggle for the Nation's in- 

 tegrity which kept alive hope and encouraged exertion for all move- 

 ments promising future good to the community. Thus it was that 

 in the midst of a dreadful civil war, the Society was enabled, through 

 the untiring devotions of its own members and by the exertions, 

 contributions, and bequests of many friends, to erect the fine struc- 

 ture that now adorns the city, and to place therein the great col- 

 lections of Natural History that now minister to the delight and 

 the instruction of multitudes." Nor were the life and development 

 of the Society maintained at the expense of the duty which its mem- 

 bers owed to their country in the field, for ninety-eight of them 

 served in the war, a large proportion of the Society's membership. 

 It is impossible within the compass at our disposal to indulge 

 in a retrospect complete enough to outline the many activities of 

 our members, so we must content ourselves with giving the names 

 of those who took the most active part in the proceedings of the So- 

 ciety in the critical times between the thirtieth and fortieth Mile- 

 stones ( 1860-70). Doctors: Jeffries Wyman, C, T. Jackson, B. Joy 

 Jeffries, James C. White, Charles Pickering, Augustus A. Gould, 

 Henry Bryant, Bert G. Wilder, C. F. Winslow, William Stiinpson, 

 Thomas M. Brewer, Herman A. Hazen, J. B. S. Jackson, Alexander 

 Agassiz. P)-ofessors: Louis Agassiz, William B. Rogers, H. J. Clarke. 

 Messrs. S. H. Scudder, F. W. Putnam, A. E. Verrill, Horace Mann, 

 C. T. Sprague, Charles Stodder, W illiam T. Brigham, R.C. Green- 



