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Of publications, four articles in the Memoirs had appeared, and four parts of the Pro- 

 ceedings. The library had received during the year three hundred and twenty-three vol- 

 umes, eight hundred and thirty-three parts of volumes, one hundred and twenty-four 

 pamphlets, and forty-nine maps and charts. 



Respecting the alterations that had been going on, the Custodian remarked that a con- 

 siderable part of the year had been taken up in making them. There would undoubtedly 

 be experienced some difficulty in the arrangement of details in the separate collec- 

 tions but the natural sequence of forms, whether mineralogical, geological, or zoolog- 

 ical would be as fully and better illustrated than it ever has been in any printed work 

 embracing similar grounds, an achievement heretofore considered unattainable in Muse- 

 ums of the size of this. He deprecated having ascribed to himself the whole credit 

 of the extraordinary success thus far obtained, mentioning that the President had urged 

 the adoption of the plan of organization presented in the annual report of 1870-71, and 

 had ever since given it his energetic support. 



At the election of officers for the year ensuing, Mr. Samuel H. Scudder was chosen 

 First Vice-President, and Mr. John Cummings Second Vice-President of the Society, 

 taking the positions hitherto held by Dr. Chas. T. Jackson, and Mr. Richard C. Greenleaf. 



T. Sterry Hunt and L. S. Burbank were chosen upoja the Committee on Geology, from 

 which John Cummings resigned ; R. H. Richards was chosen upon the Committee on Min- 

 erals, in place of Dr. Charles T. Jackson ; John Cummings was chosen one of the Com- 

 mittee on Botany in place of William T. Brigham. 



On motion of Dr. Kneeland the thanks of the Society were unanimously voted to the 

 retiring Vice-President, Mr. Greenleaf, for his valuable services. The following resolu- 

 tion presented by Mr. George Washington Warren was also unanimously passed : 



" Resolved, That this Society desires to place upon its records, its high appreciation of 

 the eminent services rendered by Dr. Chas. T. Jackson, one of its Vice-Presidents, and of 

 the high honor conferred upon the Society by his long association with it ; and it would 

 respectfully tender to his afflicted family its sincere condolence for the malady which 

 has overtaken him, and has so abruptly terminated, for a season only, it is greatly to be 

 hoped, his scientific researches, which have been of inestimable value to the public." 



It was voted that a copy of the resolution be sent to the family of Dr. Jackson. 



Six years have now passed since the above mentioned action was taken by the Society, 

 and as the hope expressed of the renewal of scientific work on the part of Dr. Jackson, 

 has not been and is not likely to be realized, 1 there can be no more fitting occasion to 

 dwell upon his connection with, and his services to the Society. He was not, strictly speak- 

 ing, one of its original members, but he, soon after its foundation, was acting among them, 

 and in 1833 was elected to the office of Curator. 



To no man was the Society more indebted for constant and active zeal in its welfare 

 than to Dr. Charles T. Jackson during the first forty years of its existence. Others sur- 

 passed him in laborious work on its collections w r hen nearly all done upon them was by 

 voluntary effort; others in exerting greater influence in the community for its advantage ; 

 but none in a constant manifestation of interest in its proceedings as shown by so long 

 and uninterrupted a participation in them, and by the generous donation of a large por- 



1 Dr. Jackson died, after a long illness, on the 29th of August, 1880. 



