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The Treasurer and the Committee of Finance were aii- | 



thorized to adopt such measures towards liquidating the | 



debt as they might see proper. i 



The Society next proceeded to the choice of Officers for 



the ensuing year, and elected the gentlemen presented as ^ 



candidates by the nominating committee, as follows : . 



President, ^ 



Dr. John C. Warren. 



Vice-Presidents, 

 Dr. C. T. Jackson. Dr. D. H. Storer. 



Corresponding Secretary, 

 Dr. A. A. Gould. 



Recording Secretary, 

 Dr. S. L. Abbot. 



Treasurer, 

 P. T. Jackson, Esq. 



Librarian, 

 C. K. Dillaway, Esq. 



Cabinet Keeper, 

 Dr. Samuel Kneeland, Jr. 



Curators, 



J. E. Teschemacher, Esq. Of Botany. 



Dr. John Bacon, Jr. Mineralogy. 



Dr. N. B. Shurlleff, Comparative Anatomy. 



W. J. Burnett, Esq. Entomology. 



W. O. Ayres, Esq. Ichthyology. 



Prof. Jeffries Wyman, Herpetology. 



T. T. Bouve, Esq. Geology. 



Dr. Samuel Cabot, Ornithology. 



Dr. William Read, Conchology. 



Dr. Cabot, of the nominating committee, read a commu- 

 nication from Thomas Bulfinch, Esq., declining to stand as 

 .a candidate for the office of Recording Secretary another 



