250 HISTORICAL SKETCH. 



is lead to reconsider it, 180. Alterations in the Constitution, Corporate and Associate membership, 

 181. Annual meeting 1876, 181. Death of Dr. Walter Channing, 183. Death of Edward Pick- 

 ering, 184. Death of Prof. F. B. Meek, 185. Consideration of opening the Museum on Sundays, 185. 



Annual meeting 1877, 186. Death of Dr. Charles Pickering, 189. Death of Prof. C. F. Hartt, 192. 

 Annual meeting 1878, 194. Death of Gurdon Saltonstall, 197. Death of Prof. Joseph Henry, 



198. Remarkable work of the Teachers' School of Science, 199. Death of Dr. J. B. S. Jackson, 199. 



Annual meeting 1879, '202. Teachers' School of Science, 204. Vote to publish an Anniversary vol- 

 ume, 207. Award of the second Grand Walker Prize to Prof. Joseph Leidy, 208. Discussion relating 



to the Collection of Comparative Anatomy, 208. Death of Dr. T. M. Brewer, 209. Plans for a fiftieth 

 anniversary celebration, 211. Resignation of Mr. Bouve from the Presidency, 212. Fiftieth anniver- 

 sary celebration, April 28, 1880, 213. Address of Mr. Bouve, 213, of Governor Long, 214, of Dr. 

 Samuel Eliot, 215, of President Eliot, 216, of Mr. Alex. Agassiz, 219, of Rev. R. C. Waterston, 

 220. Close of the celebration, 226. Annual meeting 1880, 226. Election of officers, with Samuel H. 

 Scudder as President, 230. Review of the fifth decade, 231. Original members yet living, 234. 

 Sketch of George B. .Emereon, 235. Present condition of the Society and the hopes of its founders, 

 237. Statistics of the Library and Museum, 238. Funded property, 239. Present work, 240. Inade- 

 quacy of means, 241. Aspirations, 242. Wishes expressed in Dr. W. J. Walker's will, 243. 



List of past officers of the Society, 244. 



Contents, 248. 



List of portraits, 250. 



PORTRAITS IN THIS VOLUME. 



BENJAMIN D. GREENE, M.D., First President of the Society. Heliotype from a life-size crayon por- 

 trait in the possession of the Society. Opposite page 89. 



GEORGE B. EMERSON, LL.D., Second President. Heliotype from an enlarged photograph. Opposite 

 page 236. 



AMOS BINNEY, M.D., Third President. Heliotype from a portrait in oil in possession of the Society. 

 Opposite page 49. 



JOHN COLLINS WARREN, M.D., Fourth President. Steel engraving from a daguerreotype by J. A. 

 Whipple. Opposite page 66. 



JEFFRIES WTMAN, M.D., Fifth President. Heliotype from an enlarged photograph finished in crayon, 

 in the possession of the Society. Opposite page 169. 



THOMAS T. BOUVE, Sixth President. Heliotype from a crayon portrait in possession of his family. 

 Opposite page 212. 



WILLIAM J. WALKER, M.D. Heliotype from a crayon in possession of the Society. Opposite page 105. 



AUGUSTUS A. GOULD, M.D. Engraving by H. Wright Smith, from a daguerreotype by Southworth & 

 Hawes, originally published in the Annual of Scientific Discovery for 1861. Opposite page 112. 



D. HUMPHREYS STORER, M.D. Steel engraving, prepared for the ''Biographical Encyclopedia of 

 Massachusetts of the Nineteenth Century," published in New York in 1879. Opposite page 80. 



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