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interesting example of the beauty of his pronunciation of the Spanish was given the 

 writer by one of his intimate friends. Being in Spain at the time of the Carlist wars, he 

 was repeatedly under suspicion on the part of the officers of the government, who could 

 not believe him to be a foreigner, the purity of his accent and thorough knowledge of the 

 language It-ad ing them to think that he must necessarily be a native Spaniard. He had 

 also in the course of his travels mastered more than one of the unwritten languages of the 

 South Pacific Islands. 



He was described by intimate friends and associates as being a man of the utmost fasci- 

 nation of manner, and one whose wide and varied information made him one of the most 

 interesting of companions. 



Elected a member of the Society on the 6th of April, 1836, he was often before it while 

 at home, at the meetings, with communications or remarks relating to facts of scientific 

 interest which had come to his knowledge during his wide-spread investigations abroad. 

 He also, from time to time, presented many specimens to the Society. 



His memory should be held in tender regard by the Society, for while, in former years, 

 an active and valued associate, his death in battle in the service of his country added 

 another to the list of those who have passed away, leaving, through faithful work in the 

 cause of science, a lasting lustre on its roll of membership. 



Captain Couthouy married Miss Mary G. Wild of Boston. His wife died in 1857, and at 

 the time of his death, in 1864, he had three daughters living. His only son had died 

 previously. 



It having been necessary in quite a number of instances during the first half of this 

 decade to record the fact of several of the officers having resigned or temporarily vacated 

 their positions in order to engage in the military or naval service during the war for the 

 suppression of the rebellion, it is fitting that the part which was taken in the great conflict 

 by members of the Society should be recognized ; and the following roll gives the names 

 and branch of the service to which they belonged, of such as are, or have been, borne 

 upon its list of membership. 



Dr. Samuel Knccland, Surgeon 45th Mass. Infantry, Brevet Lieut. Colonel. 



Dr. Henry Bryant, Surgeon 20th Mass. Infantry, Brigade Surgeon U. S. Vols. 



Dr. Samuel A. Green, Asst. Surgeon 1st Mass. Infantry, Surgeon 24th Mass. Infantry. 



Dr. Burt G. Wilder, Asst. Surgeon 55th Mass. Infantry. 



Dr. B. Joy Jeffries, Sergeant 1st Corps Cadets M.V.M., Acting Assistant Surgeon U.S.A. 



Dr. Francis H. Brown, Acting Assistant Surgeon U. S. Army, Private 12th unattached company Mass. 

 Infantry. 



Theodore Lyman, Colonel U. S. Vols., aide-de-camp to Major General Meade. 



Albert Ordway, Lieut. Colonel 24th Mass. Infantry. Brevet Brigadier General. 



Amos Binney, Major and Paymaster U. S. Vols. 



Dr. John Stearns, Surgeon 4th Mass. Heavy Artillery. 



Dr. Lucius M. Sargent, Jr., Surgeon 2d Mass. Infantry, afterwards Major 1st Mass. Cavalry. Killed in 

 battle. 



Dr. Hall Curtis, Asst. Surgeon 24th Mass. Infantry, Surgeon 2d Mass. Heavy Artillery. 



Dr. Robert T. Edes, Passed Assistant Surgeon U. S. Navy. 



Dr. Z. Boylston Adams, Asst. Surge-on 7th Mass. Infantry, Surgeon 32d Mass. Infantry, afterwards 

 Major 50th Mass. Infantry. 



Dr. A. S. Packard, Jr., Asst. Surgeon 1st Maine Veteran Volunteer Infantry. 



