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severer or more pressing call, it can secrete (even if by reprcs- 

 ing its out-bursting for the present) a true and delightful 

 future condition of life. Like the great and revered surgeon,* 

 lately departed, it can, when emancipated from present duties, 

 adorn and beautify the closing period of natural age with the 

 pursuits of some favorite branch of science, and find in nature 

 a kindly return for every emotion of love for her. Preemi- 

 nently then, let our young learn, from the "grass of the field" 

 and from the lilies and from the flowers, the initiatory lessons 

 to practical usefulness and to honorable artistic or else literary 

 fame. Let them become, through such facilities, as it w^ere, 

 choice herbaria of your wisdom, and upon such specimens as 

 they may be, may your inscription of their name and rank, in 

 the great science of human life redound to your perpetual 

 honor, and they stand up before the world, in proper time, as 

 " well ripened sheaves of the finest wheat in the garners" of 

 society and of God's own divine and progressive Providence. 



After some business relative to certain amendments in the 

 E-ye-Laws, which were duly passed without any dissent, it was 



Voted, to proceed to the choice of officers for the year ensu- 

 ing;, or until others shall be chosen in their stead : — Messrs. 

 L. R Stone and F. "VY. Putnam being appointed to collect, • 

 assort and count the votes. 



The following were declared elected : 



President — Daniel A. White. 



Vice-Pi^Esldents — John Glen King, John Lewis Russell, 

 John Clarke Lee. 



Secretary and Treasurer — Henry Wheatland. 



Librarian — John H. Stone. 



Cabinet Keeper — Frederick Ward Putnam. 



Finance Committee — .John C. Lee, E. Emmerton, Joseph 

 S. Cabot. 



* John C. Warren, llersey Professor of Anatomy and Surgery in 

 Harvard University. 



