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unshackled by any of the less elevating habits sometimes con- 

 tracted in commerce. At an early period of his life he imbibed 

 a taste for studying out of Nature's beautiful book, thus acquiring 

 that purity, and love of truth, so constantly pervading all his 

 thoughts and writings. 



In the year 1830, Mr. Teschemacher accepted the offer of a 

 partnership in a house of considerable standing in Havana, and 

 proceeded to Cuba with highly advantageous prospects, but these 

 prospects faded on his approach, and he returned to England. 

 After a brief space, he made up his mind to repair to the United 

 States, with his family ; reaching New York, February 7lh, 1832, 

 he finally settled in Boston, where, during the space of twenty- 

 two years, he was unremitting in his exertions for his family. 

 Of his untiring zeal and enthusiastic devotion to science, we need 

 not speak ; his hours of leisure, it may be naturally inferred, 

 were few, but those few were employed, (apparently as a recrea- 

 tion), in the severer branches of study, which frequently form the 

 labor of a life, even with those who make science their occupa- 

 tion. Truly may he be said to have improved the talents com- 

 mitted to his charge. 



The above notice was accompanied by a list of Mr. 

 Teschemacher's contributions to the Society's publications, 

 and the following papers published elsewhere : 



An Address before the Boston Society of Natural History. 

 An Address before the Horticultural Society. 

 An Address before the Harvard Natural History Society. 

 An Essay on Guano. 



Letters from Lord Ellesmere, Prof. Owen, and Sir John 

 Richardson, addressed to the President, were read to the 

 Society. 



A communication was received from Dr. H. R. Storer, 

 resigning his office of Curator of Herpetology. It was 

 accompanied by a letter from Dr. W. I. Burnett, and one 



