248 HISTORICAL SKETCH OF THE 



CONTENTS. 



Notice of the Linnaean Society, pp. 3-14. 



Early piiblicatious and instruction in natural history, 3. — Organization, Dec. 8, 1814, of the N. E. Society 

 for the promotion of Natural History, 3. — Members and rules, 4. — Change of name in 1815 to Lin- 

 naean Society of New England, 6. — Collection of specimens and addresses, 6. — Division of the Museum 

 into departments, 7. — Sea-serpent Stories, 10. — Signs of dissolution, 10. — Attempts to unite with the 

 Athenaeum, 12. — Decision to dispose of the collections, 12. — Lessons taught by the failure of the Lin- 

 naean Society, 13. 



The Boston Society of Natural History, Decade I, Mat 1830 — Mat 1840, pp. 14—36. 



Formation of the new Society and election of officers, 14, — with Thomas Nuttall as President, who declined 

 to serve, and Benjamin D. Greene is chosen, 14.— Lectures arranged, 15. — Attempt to recover the col- 

 lections of the Linnaean Society, 16. — Character of the meetings, 17. — Quarters taken in Pearl Street, 

 17. — First Annual Meeting and reports, 18. — Geological survey of the State, 19. — Difficulties before 

 the early students of natural history, 20. — Removal to Tremont Street, 21. — Attempts to raise a per- 

 manent fund, 21. — Extent of collections, 23. — -Gift from Ambrose S. Courtis, 23. — Publication of a 

 "Journal," 24. — Second Survey of the State, 25. — Death of Ambrose S. Courtis, his bequest and notice 

 of his life, 26. — Purchase of the Ilentz Collection, 27. — Resignatiou of Mr. Greene and election of 

 George B. Emerson, second President, 28. — Financial troubles, 28. — Annual Meeting for 1838-39, 29. — 

 Settlement of the Courtis bequest, 30. — Aid given to naturalists, 30. — Death of Simon E. Greene, 30. — 

 Annual meeting, 1840, 31. — Review of the decade, 31. 



Decade II, May 1840— Mat 1850, pp. 36-56. 



Bequest of Simon E. Greene, 36. — Annual meeting, 1841, 37. — Meeting of the American Association of 

 Geologists and Naturalists, 38. — Annual reports for 1842, 38. — Adoption of a Diploma, 39. — Annual 

 reports, 1843, 40. — Election of Dr. Amos Binney as third President, 40. — Death of the Rev. F. W. P. 

 Greenwood, 40. — Annual meeting of 1844, 41, — and of 1845, 43. — Endeavors to raise funds for the 

 Society, 48.— Bequest of John Parker, 33.— The " Sca-Sorpent " again, 44. — Annual reports 1846, 45. — 

 Death of Dr. Amos Binney, 46. — Annual meeting, 1847, 48. — Election of Dr. J. C. Warren, fourth Pres- 

 ident, 48. — Purchase of the Medical College and removal to Mason Street, 49. — Annu.al reports for 

 1848, 50, — and for 1849, 51. — Deposit in the Library of the books of "A Republican Institution," 52. — 

 Donation of Jonathan Phillips, 52. — Death of Dr. Martin Gay, 52. — Annual reports for 1850, 58. — 

 Early discoveries of gold in California, 54. — Review of the second decade, 55. 



Decade III, May 1850 — May 1860, pp. 56-81. 



Annual meetings 1851 and 1852, 57, — and of 1858, 58. — Purchase of the fossil foot-prints from the Con- 

 necticut Valley, 59. — Death of James E. Tescheniacher, 59.— Annual meeting of 1854, 61. — Death of 

 Dr. Waldo I. Burnett, 61. — Annual meeting of 1855, 63. — Death of James Brown, 63. — Death of Dr. 

 Thaddeus W. Harris, 64, — and of the Rev. Zadock Thompson, 65. — Annual meeting, 1856, 66. — Elec- 

 tion of Dr. Jeffries Wyman, fifth President, 68.— First and only field meeting of the Society, 68. — De- 

 posit fi-om Dr. Binney's Library, 69.— Deaths of Corresponding Members, J. W. Bailey, W. C. Redfield, 

 and Michael Tuomey, 69. — ^ Annual meeting of 1857, 69. — Formation of a Section of Microscopy, and 

 bequest of the collection of Prof. Bailey, 71. — Donation of the B. D. Greene Herbarium, 71. — Annual 

 meeting, 1858, 72.— Deaths of Dr. James Deane and F. W. Cragin, 78.— Thoughts of a new building, 

 74._ Annual meeting 1859, 74,— and of 1860, 76.— Sketch of Dr. D. Humphreys Storer, 77.— Review 

 of the third decade, 80. 



