BOSTON SOCIETY OF NATURAL HISTORY. HI 



The department of Botany had received very valuable donations of mosses and lichens 

 from the former Curator, C. J. Sprague, Esq., comprising about 500 species. Specimens 

 had also been presented by Drs. C. Pickering, C. F. Winslow, A. S. Packard, Jr., S. Knee- 

 laud, Jr., and Messrs. Gunning, E. R. Mayo, H. M. Mclntire, William Nelson and S. Wells, 

 Jr. 



The Curator of Herpetology reported 69 additions to the department during the year, 

 the donors being Drs. A. S. Packard, Jr., S. Kneeland, Jr., C. F. Winslow, and Messrs. S. 

 Hinckley, F. Andernach, D. White, and Captain Barber. 



The Ethnological department had received a few donations from Dr. H. Bryant, A. E. L. 

 Dillaway and Horace McMurtrie. 



To the Oological department there had been no additions. 



In June, the sad intelligence of the death of Prof. Henry D. Rogers of Glasgow was 

 received. 



Henry Darwin Rogers was born at Philadelphia, in 1809. He early became interested in 

 scientific pursuits, and while still quite young engaged as State Geologist of Pennsylvania 

 in an extended and very thorough survey of that State. His great work on the geology of 

 Pennsylvania, subsequently published, placed him at once in the front rank of American 

 geologists, and his later Report on the Geology of New Jersey was a valuable contribution 

 to science. 



His eminent attainments led to his being invited, in 1857, to take the chair of Regius 

 Professor of Geology and Natural History in the University of Glasgow, Scotland. He 

 accepted this position, which he filled to the time of his death, which took place on his 

 return from a visit to his native land, at his residence, Shawlands, near Glasgow, May 29th, 

 1866, in the fifty-eighth year of his age. He was a brother of Professor William B. Rog- 

 ers, and for several years was a resident member of the Society ; while so, manifesting 

 much interest in its welfare. Valuable communications were frequently made by him, 

 reports of which may be found in the Proceedings. 



In September a special meeting of the Society was called upon the occasion of the death 

 of one of its founders and most eminent members, Dr. Augustus A. Gould. This event 

 was announced by the President, and a committee, consisting of the President, Thomas T. 

 Bouve and S. H. Scudder, was appointed to report a suitable address upon the occasion. 

 A vote was unanimously passed that the Society attend the funeral, and four mem- 

 bers were appointed to act as pall-bearers in connection with those appointed by the Suf- 

 folk District Medical Society. The four were the President, Dr. C. T. Jackson, Mr. George 

 B. Emerson, and Mr. C. K. Dillaway. The services were at the Rowe Street Baptist Church, 

 of which he was a member, and were attended by a large concourse of friends. 



At the regular meeting on Sept. 19th, on behalf of the committee appointed at the special 

 meeting the President read the following notice : 



" Dr. Augustus Addison Gould, for many years one of the Vice-Presidents of this Society, 

 died at his home on the morning of the 15th day of September. By this sad and sudden 

 event, the Society loses one of its most honored and respected associates, and science a 

 disinterested and truthful worker. From the beginning of our existence to the day on 

 which he died, his hand was never weary in our service. Through many years we have- 

 leaned on him for his wise counsel ; his thought and labor more than any other have helped 



