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and we may be sure that in all the work the Society undertakes, it will have no stronger 

 friend than he. 



Mr. John Cummings thereupon offered the following vote : — 



" In consideration of the fact that Mr. Bouve has declined to be a candidate for the first 

 office of this Society, the members desire to express their grateful acknowledgment of the 

 long and valuable service he has rendered as President, and their cordial thanks for his 

 arduous labors, unremitted devotion, prudent and successful administration; nor can they 

 part from him in this official capacity without the additional expression of their warm 

 personal esteem." 



No one ever associated with Mr. Bouve, added Mr. Cummings, who did not feel himself 

 drawn to hmi by the strongest and tenderest ties. In his own experience he had never 

 met a man with so much devotion to any cause as Mr. Bouve had shown for the 

 welfare of the Society. 



Mr. Cummings's remarks were warmly applauded and the motion was seconded by Prof 

 A. Hyatt, who said, in respect to Mr. Bouve's administration, that although from the first 

 the present policy of the Society had met the severest criticism and sometimes disapproba- 

 tion from the intimate friends and advisers of the President, he had yet been able to keep 

 his judgment unwarped and to consider those ideas, which were new to him, purely on 

 their own merits. It is not too much to say that the Society's aims, which we have heard 

 so highly praised in this anniversary year, could not have been so developed without Mr. 

 Bouve's constant support. The feelings expressed by Mr. Cummings will be echoed in 

 the heart of every officer of the Society, for we have always found our President full of 

 kindness and consideration, as well as just and sound in judgment. 



Mr. F. W. Putnam said he could not allow this opportunity to pass without a few words, 

 which at best would be but a feeble expression of his feelings ; for in addition to a long 

 and cherished friendship that every year had strengthened, his official ties to Mr. Bouve 

 were double, and both were bi^oken by his resignation, since, as might not be remembered 

 by all present, the President of the Society was ex-officio a member of the board of trus- 

 tees of the Peabody Museum at Cambridge ; and while, as Curator of that Museum, he 

 welcomed his friend, the new President of the Society, he was veiy sorry to lose one who 

 had been so long connected with the Museum and had ever been ready to give his kindly 

 aid in furtherance of its objects. 



Prof W. H. Niles spoke of the large amount of work in the care and arrangement of 

 the collections which Mr. Bouve had accomplished during the term of his presidency. 

 Most of this has been done after the business duties of the day, and how frequently he 

 has remained until called home by some one, none but his family know. When alterations 

 in the building were going on, he habitually inspected the entire premises after all 

 othei-s had gone, to see that all was left in safety. The Society has steadily progressed 

 in its usefulness and scientific position during the administration of Mr. Bouve, and he 



