62 REPORT OF THE SECRETARY. 



American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Affairs, Boston, 36 

 volumes and 53 pamphlets. 



Massachusetts State Board of Agriculture, 13 volumes and 1 pam- 

 phlets. 



J. G. Cotta, Augsburg, 15 volumes. 



Dr. Karl Koch, Berlin, 205 pamphlets. 



Justus Perthes, Gotha, 12 volumes and 16 pamphlets. 



F. A. Brockhaus, Leipzig, 13 volumes and 6 pamphlets. 



Before concluding the history of the Institution for 1867, it be- 

 comes my duty to recall a painful event, which was announced to the 

 Board at its meeting in February last. I allude to the death of Alex- 

 ander Dallas Bache, the head of the United States Coast Survey, and 

 one of the original members of the Board of Regents. On the occa- 

 sion of the announcement of this bereavement, which was received 

 with emotions of profound sorrow, the following resolutions, pre- 

 sented by Hon. J. W. Patterson, of New Hampshire, were unanimously 

 adopted : 



^^ Besolved, That the highest honor is due to the memory of our 

 respected and beloved associate. Professor Alexander Dallas Bache, 

 who, through so many years of active life, has devoted, unselfishly 

 and with uiidring energy, great talents, profound acquirements and 

 undeviatiu' ■ integrity to the advance of art, science, education and 

 philanthropy. 



'■'■Resolved^ That in the death of our lamented associate this Institu- 

 tion, of which he was a regent, and one of the executive committee 

 from its first organization to the time of his death, has lost an efficient 

 collaborator, a sagacious counsellor and zealous supporter. 



^'■Resolved, That the members of the Board, in common with the 

 Secretary, lament in his departure the loss of a warm and tried per- 

 sonal friend J and that they will always cherish the memory of his 

 genial and sympathetic disposition, his gentle and prepossessing man- 

 ners, his refined taste, high moral perceptions and unswerving advo- 

 cacy of the right. 



^^ Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be transmitted to 

 the widow of the deceased, and that the Secretary prepare a suitable 

 eulogy for insertion in the next annual report." 



In compliance with the resolution of the board, I have collected 

 materials for a memoir of my lamented friend. Dr. Bache, and pre- 

 pared as full an account of his life and labors as my time and ability 

 would permit. The duty thus devolved upon me would have been 

 accepted with alacrity as a means of gratifying my feelings of regard 



