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Decade IV, May 1860-May 1870, pp. 81-1.38. 



Bequest of Jonathan Phillips, 81. — Constant exertions for a grant of lanrl for a new building, 81. — First 

 donation from Dr. William J. Walker, 82. — Grant of land to the Society and the Massachusetts Insti- 

 tute of Technology, 83. — Annual meeting 18G1, 83. — Sale of building on Mason Street and temporary 

 removal to Bulfinch Street, 84. — Plans for the new building, 85. — Large osteological additions, 85. — 

 Gift of ethnological collections from the Boston Marine Society, 87. — Successful efforts of the Building 

 Committee, subscriptions of $'20,000 obtained and the second gift from Dr. W. J. Walker, 87. — Con- 

 tracts for the new Building, 87. — Annual reports for 1862, 87. — Death of Dr. B. D. Greene, 88. — Gift 

 of the Megatherium c.ast, 91. — Annual meeting of 1863, 91. — Deaths of Dr. George Hayward and 

 Francis Alger, 92. — First meeting in the new building, 92. — Financial shadows, 94. — New offer of 

 $20,000 from Dr. Walker on condition of raising an equal amount, 95. — Death of Dr. Edward Hitch- 

 cock, 95, — of Dr. John Ware, 95. — Resignation of Mr. Dillaway, the Librarian since 1833,96. — An- 

 nual meeting 1864, 96. — Office of Custodian created, and election of S. II. Scudder, 97. — Dedication of 

 the new Museum, 99. — Death of C. A. Shurtleff, 100. — Subscriptions to its Working Fund completed, 

 100. — Conditions as to use of the amount received from Dr. Walker, 100. — Establishment of Walker 

 Prizes, 100. — Reorganization of a Section of Microscopy, 102. — First course of lectures to Teachers, 

 102.— Death of Dr. William J. Walker, and sketch of his life, 103.— Bequests of Dr. Walker, 105.— 

 Annual meeting, 1865, 105. — Cost of the Museum, 106. — Ravages of insects, 106. — Gift of the Lafres- 

 naye Collection of Birds by Dr. Henry Bryant, 108. — Attempt to make Dr. Wyrnan Director, 109. — 

 Annual meeting, 1866, 109. — Establishment of the "Memoirs" as a new series of the "Journal," 109. — 

 Death of Prof Henry D. Rogers, 111. — Death of Dr. Augustus A. Gould, 111. — The Custodianship, 

 116. — Formation of a Section of Entomology, 117. — Bequest of Miss S. P. Pratt, 117. — Death of Dr. 

 Henry Bryant, 117. — Cooperation with explorations of the Smithsonian Institution, 118. — Discussion 

 on the House Sparrow, 118.^ Abolition of the Department of Ethnology, 119. — Completion of some 

 unfinished rooms, 119. — Bequest of Paschal P. Pope, 119. — Annu.il meeting, 1867, 119. — Death of 

 Thomas Bulfinch, 120. — Public lectures, 121. — Annual meeting 186S, 121. — Admission of ladies to 

 laeetings, 123. — Death of Horace Mann, 123. — Annual meeting 1869, 124. — Results of the Central 

 American explorations, 125. — Excessive expenditures, 126. — Celebration of the centennial anniversary 

 of Humboldt's birth, 127. — -Founding of a Humboldt Schnlarship in the Museum of Comparative Zool- 

 ogy, 128. — Formation of Committees in charge of the diflTerent collections, 129. — Annual meeting 1S70, 

 129. — Resignation of Mr. Scudder from the Custodianship, etc., and of Professor Wyman from the Pres- 

 idency, 132. — Election of Prof. A. Hyatt, Custodian, and Rev. J. A. Swan, Secretary and Librarian, 

 133. — Review of the fourth decade, 133. — Part taken by members of the Society in the war of the 

 rebellion, 133.— Joseph P. Couthouy, 138. — Gift of the II. F. Wolcott Fund, 138. 



Decade V, Mat 1870-Mat 1880, pp. 140-243. 



Duties of the salaried officers, 141. — Election of Thomas T. Bouve, President, 142. — Plan for arranging 

 the Museum proposed by Professor Hyatt, 143. — Skeleton of a Fin-back whale secured, 145. — Ar- 

 rangement with the Trustee of the Lowell Institute for series of lectures under the Society's auspices, 

 145. — Establishment through John Cummings of the Teachers' School of Science, 145. — Bequest 

 from Sidney Homer, 146. — Annual meeting 1871, 146. — Death of the Secretary, Rev. J. A. Swan, 

 148. — Election of Edward Burgess, Secretary and Librarian, 149. — Death of William H. Dale, 

 and his bequest to the Section of Entomology, 149. — Annual meeting 1872, 149. — Annual meeting 1873, 

 152. — Award of the first Grand Walker Prize to Alexander Ag.assiz, 154. — -De.ath of Prof. Louis 

 Agassiz, 154. — Precautions against fire, and progress of the re-arrangement of the Museum, 164. — At- 

 tempt to induce the Legislature to authorize a new survey of the State, 165. — Annual meeting 1874, 

 1(55. — Gift of the Eser Paleontological Collection by Mr. John Cummings, 166. — Dr. Charles T. Jackson, 

 167. — Thovights of the establishment of a Zoological Garden and Aquarium, 160.— Death of Dr. Jeffries 

 Wyman, 169. — Purchase of the Wyman Collection of Comparative Anatomy, 177. — Annual meeting, 

 1875, 177. — Bequest of the C. S. Ilale Collection of Fossils, 179. — President Bouve wishes to resign, but 



