UCSB LIBRARY 



ADDRESS. 



MR. PRESIDENT: 



I thank yon, for the great honor you do me by inviting me 

 to say something before, and in behalf of, your Society, in 

 commemoration of the most distinguished naturalist that 

 has appeared among us. You know how reluctantly I con- 

 sented to speak, and I feel how inadequately I shall be able 

 to represent the Society. Yet I cannot but admit that there 

 is some apparent propriety in your request. I was one of 

 those who formed this Society. All the others who first met, 

 except one, are gone ; Dr. B. D. Greene, Dr. J. Ware, F. C. 

 Gray and the rest. My old friend, Dr. Walter Channing, 

 alone, in whose office most of the first meetings were held, 

 is still living. Moreover, while I was in the seat you now oc- 

 cupy, it was agreed by my associates that it was very proper 

 and desirable that a Survey of the State, Botanical and Zoo- 

 logical, should be made, to complete that begun by Prof. 

 Hitchcock in Geology. At their request I presented to Gov. 

 Everett a memorial suggesting this. 



Our suggestion was graciously received. Gov. Everett 

 brought the subject before the Legislature, in which some 

 friends of Natural History in the House of Representatives 

 had already been acting toward the same end ; an appropria- 

 tion was made, and he was authorized to appoint a commis- 



