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PROCEEDINGS 



BOSTON SOCIETY OF NATURAL HISTORY. 



TAKEN FROM THE SOCIETY'S RECORDS. 



Annual Meeting, May 6, 1868. 



The President in the chair. Forty-six members present. 



Mr. S. H. S(!udder presented the following Report of the 

 Custodian for the past year : — 



During the year now brought to a close, the work of con- 

 struction, partially sketched in my last report, has been 

 carried successfully forward, and to-night for the first time, 

 we hold our anniversary in the lecture hall, which has proved 

 for eight months so well adapted to its purpose. In addition, 

 two exhibition rooms have been fitted up, ncAV cases built 

 in several departments, and galleries constructed for the cab- 

 inets which will soon be required ; the working apartments 

 have been doubled in number and increased in efficiency; 

 a second library room has been furnished and occupied ; a 

 printing office added to the establishment ; and, on sanitary 

 grounds, the Janitor's apartment entirely remodeled. 



The completion of the lecture room has enabled us to 

 carry out a long cherished plan of giving public courses of 

 popular lectures on natural history — an experiment which 

 tlic Society in its younger days was one of the first to in- 

 augurate ; the Council has not yet fully perfected its plans 



PROCEEDINGS B. S. N. H. — VOL. XII. 1 JUNE, 1868. 



