BOSTON SOCIETY OF NATURAL HISTORY. 139 



Josiah Quincy in front of City Hall, that of John Winthrop in Scollay Square, and that of 

 Samuel Adams on Washington Street. 



Mr. Phillips died in Boston on the 29th of July, 1860, at the age of eighty-two years. 



Of the publications during the ten years, the seventh volume of the Journal and the 

 last of the scries, was completed in 1863. The Memoirs in quarto form which succeeded 

 the Journal had been delivered to members in parts from 1863 ; the whole of the first 

 volume being completed in 1869. Of the Proceedings the twelfth volume and part of the 

 thirteenth had been issued. 



The members of the several standing committees of the Council during the decade 

 rere as follows : 



On Publication. Drs. Jeffries Wyman, Augustus A. Gould, S. L. Abbot, Samuel Knee- 

 land, Charles Pickering ; and Messrs. S. H. Scudder, William T. Brigham and Charles J. 

 Sprague. 



On the Library. Messrs. Charles K. Dillaway, Charles J. Sprague, S. H. Scudder, Hor- 

 ice Mann, J. Elliot Cabot; and Drs. John Bacon and A. S. Packard, Jr. 



On Finance. Messrs. Thomas T. Bouve, James M. Barnard, Edward Pickering and 

 Amos Binuey. 



The average attendance at the general meetings during the ten years was as follows : 



For the year 1860-61 37 For the year 1865-66 34 



" " 1861-62 37 " " 1866-67 39 



" " 1862-63 33 " " 1867-68 ' 40 



" " 1863-64 44 " " 1868-69 33 



1864-65 33 " " 1869-70 32 



The average attendance at the meetings of the Section of Microscopy after its for- 

 mation was for the months December 1864 to May 1865, 9 ; for the year 1865-66, 9 ; 

 1866-67, 12 ; 1867-68, 12 ; 1868-69, 8 ; 1869-70, 9. 



The average attendance at the meetings of the Section of Entomology after its forma- 

 tion was for the months November 1866 to May 1, 1867, 12 ; for the ^year 1867-68, 9 ; 

 1868-69, 12; 1869-70, 10. 



The members who took the most active part in the proceedings of the Society during 

 the first five years of the decade were Drs. Jeffries Wyman, C. T. Jackson, B. Joy Jeffries, 

 James C. White, Charles Pickering, Augustus A. Gould, Henry Bryant, Burt G. Wilder, 

 C. F. Winslow, William Stimpson and Thomas M. Brewer ; Profs. Louis Agassiz, William 

 B. Rogers and H. J. Clarke ; Messrs. S. H. Scudder, F. W. Putnam, Alexander Agassiz, A. 

 E. Verrill, Horace Mann, C. J. Sprague, Charles Stodder and Thomas T. Bouve. Those 

 who were most active during the last five years were Drs. Jeffries Wyman, C. T. 

 Jackson, B. Joy Jeffries, James C. White, Charles Pickering, Hermann A. Hagen, J. B. S. 

 Jackson, Thomas M. Brewer; Messrs. S. H. Scudder, Charles Stodder, William T. Brigham, 

 R. C. Greenleaf, N. S. Shaler, Horace Mann, B. P. Mann, F. G. Sanborn, E. Bicknell, C. 

 S. Minot and Thomas T. Bouve". 



Walker Prizes. In accordance with the provisions in an agreement made with Dr. 

 William J. Walker by which the Walker Prize Fund was established, offers were made for 

 the best and second best memoirs presented on subjects proposed by a Committee of the 

 Council, as follows : 



Subject for 1865 : " Adduce and discuss the evidence of the coexistence of man and 

 extinct animals, with the view of determining the limits of his antiquity." 



