PROCEEDINGS 



or THE 



BOSTON SOCIETY OF NATURAL HISTORY. 



TAKEN FROM THE SOCIETY'S RECORDS. 



January 5, 1848. 



The President in the Chair. 



The Society met for the first time in their new Hall, in 

 Mason Street. A large number of members was present. 



The President congratulated the members on the agreea- 

 ble circumstances under which the first meeting of the new 

 year was held. He remarked, that the Society had strug- 

 gled long under the difficulties imposed by narrow means 

 and limited accommodations, yet it had in past years proved 

 itself active and energetic, and had labored well, and con- 

 tributed its share towards the advancement of Natural His- 

 tory. He hoped it would go on with renewed zeal and 

 vigor for the future, and, under more favorable circum- 

 stances and increased means of usefulness, would not per- 

 mit the achievements of its maturity to contrast unfavorably 

 with those of its youth. 



Dr. Storer corrected the record of the last meeting. His 

 statement that the Carcharias obscurus was the only Shark 

 of our waters with serrated teeth arose, not from any doubt 

 that the teeth of C. ceruleus were serrated, but from a doubt 

 whether that species was an inhabitant of our waters. He 

 has not known of any individual of that species having been 



