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On Lectures. Thomas T. Bouve", Rev. Joshua A. Swan, John Cummings, John D. 

 Runkle, Alpheus Hyatt, Edward Burgess, Dr. James C. White, F. W. Putnam, Dr. B. Joy 

 Jeffries, M. E. Wadsworth and William H. Niles. 



On Publications. Thomas T. Bouve, Dr. Samuel L. Abbot, Dr. Thomas Dwight, Dr. 

 Thomas M. Brewer, Dr. A. S. Packard, Jr., Rev. Joshua A. Swan, Edward Burgess, Samuel 

 H. Scudder, J. A. Allen, Alpheus Hyatt and John D. Runkle. 



On the Finance Committee and as Trustees. Charles J. Sprague, Thomas T. Bouve, 

 Edward Pickering, John Cummings and Charles W. Scudder. 



On Meetings. J. A. Allen, Dr. A. S. Packard, Jr., Dr. J. B. S. Jackson, Dr. H. A. 

 Hagen, Edward Burgess, Dr. James C. White, N. S. Shaler, L. S. Burbank. 



On Nominations for Membership. Dr. S. L. Abbot, F. W. Putnam, Samuel H. Scudder, 

 Dr. B. Joy Jeffries, Edward Burgess, Dr. Thomas Dwight, Samuel Wells, Alpheus Hyatt, 

 Thomas T. Bouve". 



On the Museum. Alpheus Hyatt, Thomas T. Bouve", John Cummings, Samuel H. Scud- 

 der, Edward Burgess and F. W. Putnam. 



The publications of the Society during the decade were, the second volume of its 

 Memoirs in quarto, 560 pages, containing twenty important papers read or presented at 

 its meetings, and three numbers of the third volume; a part of the 13th volume of the 

 Proceedings of the Society, not issued at the time of the annual meeting in 1870, with 

 six full volumes from the 14th to the 19th inclusive, and three parts of the 20th volume ; 

 two volumes of its Occasional Papers, one, The Spiders of the United States, a collection 

 of the Arachnological writings of Nicholas Marcellus Hentz, M.D.; the other, Contribu- 

 tions to the Geology of Eastern Massachusetts, by W. 0. Crosby ; six numbers of a series 

 of Guides for Science Teaching ; also a pamphlet introductory to a general guide to the 

 Museum to be hereafter published. 



The library had increased largely since 1870, when the whole number of its volumes 

 was g ; ven as 9396, and of pamphlets as 2677. . The number of volumes at close of the 

 decade, counting them as bound, whether containing more than one, as was often the case, 

 or not, and estimating the unbound parts in proper proportion, was over 14,000, and that 

 of the pamphlets including maps and charts, was but slightly short of 6000. 



Before proceeding to express such general views upon the Society, as press them- 

 selves upon the mind after sketching its history, and in view of its present condition, it 

 will not be amiss to refer to the original members yet living, after the lapse of half a 

 century since they took part in its formation. Of these there are four, Theophilus Par- 

 sons, Dr. Edward Reynolds, Dr. D. Humphreys Storer and Mr. George B. Emerson, all 

 men who have distinguished themselves in their several walks of life, and whose associ- 

 ation would have conferred honor upon any Society. Two of these, Dr. Storer and 

 Mr. Emerson, were active members during many years, and both of them held high 

 offices in it. Of the former and of his services to the Society, a full notice has been given 

 in these pages. It is a pleasant duty to present here some account of the latter. 



