at the opening of the Societi/s HalL 9 



A meeting was Iield^ according to notification, on llio 

 28th of April, 1830. Dr. Channiag having been chosen 

 Moderator, and Theophihis Parsons, Esq. Secretary of 

 the same, and the committee to obtain names having re- ' 

 ported thereon, It was resolved, that the name of the 

 society be The Boston Society of Natural History- 

 At this meeting, also, a committee was chosen to draft a 

 constitution and by-laws. 



On the 6th of May a meeting was held, at which the 

 committee reported a constitution and by-laws, which 

 were unanimously adopted. On the 13th of the same 



month, officers were chosen. 



About this time a room was obtained on the ground 

 floor"of the Athenaeum building, in which collections were 

 occasionally deposited, and the statute meetings were 

 regularly held. But so early as October, 1S30, we find 

 a committee appointed to obtain a " more suitable room," 



a proof that the Society were soon dissatisfied with 

 their accommodations. In truth, the apartment which 

 we lately occupied, and endeavored to improve, was 

 wholly unsuitable for our puqioses, being unfit, from Its 

 damp and sunless situation, for the reception of a cabinet. 

 For a time, it was hoped that a room might be obtained 

 in the Masonic Temple, then about to be erected ; but 

 this hope was disappointed. We were more than con- 

 soled, however, on learning, in Februarv% 1832, that a 

 hall might probably be procured for us, in an edifice pro- 

 posed to be built by the proprietors of the Savings Bank. 

 Our expectations in this quaiter were happily fulfilled. 

 Though we have been in existence as a Society but three 

 years, we have had three courses of public lectures ; two 

 in the Athenaeum lecture room, and one in the ^Masonic 

 Temple. Owmg partly to the central situation of the 

 Temple, and partly to the zealous exertions of our mem- 



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