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DECADE IV, MAY 1860-MAY 1870, pp. 81-138. 



Bequest of Jonathan Phillips, 81. Constant exertions for a grant of land for a new building, 81. First 

 donation from Dr. William J. Walker, S2. Grant of land to the Society and the Massachusetts Insti- 

 tute of Technology, 83. Annual meeting 1861, 83. Sale of building on Mason Street and temporary 



removal to Bulfinch Street, 84. Plans for the new building, 85. Large osteological additions, 85. 



Gift of ethnological collections from the Boston Marine Society, 87. Successful efforts of the Building 

 Committee, subscriptions of $'20,000 obtained and the second gift from Dr. W. J. Walker, 87. Con- 

 tracts for the new Building, 87. Annual reports for 1862, 87. Death of Dr. B. D. Greene, 88. Gift 

 of the Megatherium cast, 91. Annual meeting of 1863, 91. Deaths of Dr. George Hay ward and 

 Francis Alger, 92. First meeting in the new building, 92. Financial shadows, 94. New offer of 

 $20,000 from Dr. Walker on condition of raising an equal amount, 95. Death of Dr. Edward Hitch- 

 cock, 95, of Dr. John Ware, 95. Resignation of Mr. Dillaway, the Librarian since 1833, 96. An- 

 nual meeting 1864, 96. Office of Custodian created, and election of S. H. Scudder, 97. Dedication of 

 the new Museum, 99. Death of C. A. Shurtleff, 100. Subscriptions to its'Workiug Fund completed, 

 100. Conditions as to use of the amount received from Dr. Walker, 100. Establishment of Walker 

 Prizes, 100. Reorganization of a Section of Microscopy, 102. First course of lectures to Teachers, 

 102. Death of Dr. William J. Walker, and sketch of his life, 103. Bequests of Dr. Walker, 105. 

 Annual meeting, 1865, 105. Cost of the Museum, 106. Ravages of insects, 106. Gift of the Lafres- 

 naye Collection of Birds by Dr. Henry Bryant, 108. Attempt to make Dr. Wyman Director, 109. 

 Annual meeting, 1866, 109. Establishment of the " Memoirs " as a new series of the "Journal," 109. 

 Death of Prof. Henry D. Rogers, 111. Death of Dr. Augustus A. Gould, 111. The Custodianship, 

 116. Formation of a Section of Entomology, 117. Bequest of Miss S. P. Pratt, 117. Death of Dr. 

 Henry Bryant, 117. Cooperation with explorations of the Smithsonian Institution, 118. Discussion 

 on the House Sparrow, 118. Abolition of the Department of Ethnology, 119. Completion of some 

 unfinished rooms, 119. Bequest of Paschal P. Pope, 119. Annual meeting, 1867, 119. Death of 

 Thomas Bulfinch, 120. Public lectures, 121. Annual meeting 1868, 121, Admission of ladies to 

 meetings, 123. Death of Horace Mann. 123. Annual meeting 1869, 124. Results of the Central 

 American explorations, 125. Excessive expenditures, 126. Celebration of the centennial anniversary 

 of Humboldt's birth, 127. Founding of a Humboldt Scholarship in the Museum of Comparative Zool- 

 ogy, 128. Formation of Committees in charge of the different collections, 129. Annual meeting 1870, 

 129. Resignation of Mr. Scudder from the Custodianship, etc., and of Professor Wyman from the Pres- 

 idency, 132. Election of Prof. A. Hyatt, Custodian, and Rev. J. A. Swan, Secretary and Librarian, 

 133. .Review of the fourth decade, 133. Part taken by members of the Society in the war of the 

 rebellion, 133. Joseph P. Couthouy, 138. Gift of the II. F. Wolcott Fund, 138. 



DECADE V, MAY 1870-MAY 1880, pp. 140-243. 



Duties of the salaried officers, 141. Election of Thomas T. Bouve, President, 142. Plan for arranging 

 the Museum proposed by Professor Hyatt, 143. Skeleton of a Fin-back whale secured, 145. Ar- 

 rangement with the Trustee of the Lowell Institute for series of lectures under the Society's auspices, 

 145. Establishment through John Cummings of the Teachers' School of Science, 145. Bequest 

 from Sidney Homer, 146. Annual meeting 1871, 146. Death of the Secretary, Rev. J. A. Swan, 

 148. Election of Edward Burgess, Secretary and Librarian, 149. Death of William H. Dale, 

 and his bequest to the Section of Entomology, 149. Annual meeting 1872, 149. Annual meeting 1873, 

 152. Award of the first Grand Walker Prize to Alexander Agassi/,, 154. Death of Prof. Louis 

 Agassiz, 154. Precautions against fire, and progress of the re-arrangement of the Museum, 164. At- 

 tempt to induce the Legislature to authorize a new survey of the State, Ida. Annual meeting ! S 7I. 

 165. Gift of the Escr Paleontological Collection by Mr. John Cummings, 166. Dr. Charles T. Jackson, 

 167. Thoughts of the establishment of a Zoological Garden and Aquarium, 160. Death of Dr. Jeffries 

 Wyman, 169. Purchase of the Wyman Collection of Comparative Anatomy, 177. Annual meeting, 

 1875, 177. Bequest of the C. S. Hale Collection of Fossils, 179. President Bouve wishes to resign, but 



