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The candidates nominated were then voted for and elected, 

 as follows : — 



President, 

 John C. Warren. 



Vice-Presidents, 

 Charles T. Jackson, D. Humphreys Storer. 



Corresponding Secretary, 

 J. Elliot Cabot. 



Treasurer, 

 Nathaniel B. Shurtleff- 



Librarian, 

 Charles K. Dillaway. 



Cabinet Keeper, 

 Charles C. Sheafe. 



Curators, 



J. E. Teschemacher, Of Botany. 



Jeffries Wyman, Herpetology. 



Samuel Cabot, Jr. Ornithology. 



Thomas T. Bouve, Geology. 



Francis Alger, Mineralogy, 



William O. Ayres, Ichthyology. 



Waldo I. Burnett, Entomology. 



William Reed, Conchology. 



Samuel Kneeland, Jr. Comparative Anatomy. 



Recording Secretary, 

 Samuel L. Abbot. 



Mr. Bouve addressed the Society in some appropriate remarks 

 expressive of the universal sense of the obligation under which 

 it had been placed by the valuable services of the two gentle- 

 men, Dr. Gould and Mr. Jackson, the late Corresponding Secre- 

 tary and Treasurer, who had declined a reelection, Concluding 

 with the following resolution, which was passed unanimously : — 



Votedy That the warm thanks of the Society be presented to 

 Dr. Augustus A. Gould, our lat^Corresponding Secretary, and 

 to Patrick T. Jackson, Esq. our late Treasurer, for the very able 



