250 HISTORICAL SIvETCH. 



is lead to reconsider it, 180. — Alterations in the Constitution, — Corporate and Associate membership, 

 181._ Annual meeting 1876, 181.— Death of Dr. Walter Channing, 183.— Death of Edward Pick- 

 ering, 184. — Death of Prof. F. B. Meek, 185. — Consideration of opening the Museum on Sundays, 185. — 

 Annual meeting 1877, ISfi.— Death of Dr. Cliarles Pickering, 189.— Death of Prof. C. F. Ilartt, 192.— 

 Annual meeting 1878, 194. — Death of Guidon Saltonstall, 197. — Death of Prof. Joseph Henry, 

 198. — Remarkable work of the Teachers' School of Science, 199. — Death of Dr. J. B. S. Jackson, 199. — 

 Annual meeting 1879, '202. — Teachers' School of Science, 204. — Vote to publish an Anniversary vol- 

 ume, 207.— Award of tlie second Grand Walker Prize to Prof. Josej)!! Leidy, 208. — Discussion relating 

 to the Collection of Comparative Anatomy, 208. — Death of Dr. T. M.. Brewer, 209. — Plans for a fiftieth 

 anniversary celebration, 211. — Resignation of Mr. Bouve from the Presidency, 212. — Fiftieth anniver- 

 sary celel)ration, April 28, 1880, 213. — Address of Mr. Bouve, 213, — of Governor Long, 214, — -of Dr. 

 Samuel Eliot, 215,— of President Eliot, 21G,— of Mr. Alex. Agassiz, 219,— of Rev. R. C. Waterston, 

 220. — Close of the celebration, 226. — Annual meeting 1880, 226. — Election of officers, with Samuel H. 

 Scudder as President, 230. — Review of the fifth decade, 231. — Original members yet living, 234. — 

 Sketch of George B. Emerson, 235. — Present condition of the Society and the hopes of its founders, 

 237. — Statistics of the Library and Museum, 238.— Funded property, 239. — Present work, 240. — Inade- 

 quacy of means, 241. — Aspirations, 242. — Wishes expressed in Dr. W. J. Walker's will, 243. 



List of past officers of tlie Society, 244. 



Contents, 248. 



List of portraits, 250. 



PORTRAITS IN THIS VOLUME. 



Benjamin D. Greene, M.D., First President of the Society. Ileliotype from a life-size crayon por- 

 trait in the possession of the Society. Opposite page 89. 



Geoege B. Emeesox, LL.D., Second President. Ileliotype from .an enlarged photograjih. Opposite 

 page 286. 



Amos Binnet, M.D., Third President. IIeliotyi)e from a portrait in oil in possession of the Society. 

 Opposite page 49. 



John Collins Waeren, M.D., Fourth President. Steel engraving from a daguerreotyj>e by J. A. 

 Whipple. 0])posite page 66. 



Jeffries Wyman, M.D., Fifth President. Heliotype from an enlarged photograph finished in crayon, 

 in the jtossession of the Society. Opjjosite page 169. 



Thomas T. Bouve, Sixth President. Heliotype fi'om a crayon portrait in possession of his family. 

 Opposite page 212. 



William J. Walkee, M.D. Heliotype from a cr.ayon in ]iossession of the Society. Opposite page 105. 



Augustus A. Gould, M.D. Engraving by H. Wright Smith, from a daguerreotype by Southwoith & 

 Ilawes, originally published in the Annual of Scientific Discovery for 1861. Opposite page 112. 



D. HuMPHEEYS Stoeee, M.D. Steel engraving, prepared for the " Biographical Encyclopedia of 

 Massachusetts of the Nineteenth Century," published in New York in 1879. Opposite page 80. 



