248 HISTORICAL SKETCH OF THE 



CONTENTS. 



Notice of thk Linn ab an Soctett, pp. 3-14. 



Early publications and instruction in natural history, 3. — Organization, Dec. 8, 1814, of the N. E. Society 

 for the promotion of Natural History, 3. — Members and rules, 4. — Change of name in 1815 to Lin- 

 naean Society of New England, 6. — Collection of specimens and addresses, 6. — Division of the Museum 

 into departments, 7. — Sea-serpent Stories, 10. — Signs of dissolution, 10. — Attempts to unite with the 

 Athenaeum, 12. — Decision to dispose of the collections, 12. — Lessons taught by the failure of the Lin- 

 naean Society, 13. 



The Boston Society of Natural Histoet, Decade I, .Mat 1830 — Mat 1840, pp. 14-36. 



Formation of the new Society and election of officers, 14, — with Thomas Nuttall as President, who declined 

 to serve, and Benjamin D. Greene is chosen, 14. — Lectures arranged, 15. — Attempt to recover the col- 

 lections of the Linnaean Society, 16. — Character of the meetings, 11. — Quarters taken in Pearl Street, 

 17. — First Annual Meeting and reports, 18. — Geological survey of the State, 19. — Difficulties before 

 the early students of natural history, 20. — Removal to Tremont Street, 21. — Attempts to raise a per- 

 manent fund, 21. — Extent of collections, 23. — Gift from Ambrose S. Courtis, 23. — Publication of a 

 "Journal," 24. — Second Survey of the State, 25. — Death of Ambrose S. Courtis, his bequest and notice 

 of his life, 26. — Purchase of the Hentz Collection, 27. — Resignation of Mr. Greene and election of 

 George B. Emerson, second President, 28. — : Financial troubles, 28. — Annual Meeting for 1838-39, 29. — 

 Settlement of the Courtis bequest, 30. — Aid given to naturalists, 30. — Death of Simon E. Greene, 30. — 

 Annual meeting, 1840, 31. — Review of the decade, 31. 



Decade II, Mat 1840— Mat 1850, pp. 36-56. 



Bequest of Simon E. Greene, 36. — Annual meeting, 1841, 37. — Meeting of the American Association of 

 Geologists and Naturalists, 38. — Annual reports for 1842,38. — Adoption of a Diploma, 39. — Annual 

 reports, 1843, 40. — Election of Dr. Amos Binney as third President, 40. — Death of the Rev. F. W. P. 

 Greenwood, 40.— Annual meeting of 1844, 41, — and of 1845, 43. — Endeavors to raise fiinds for the 

 Society, 43.— Bequest of John Parker, 33.— The " Sea-Serpent" again, 44. — Annual reports 1846, 45.— 

 Death of Dr. Amos Binney, 46.— Annual meeting, 1847, 48.— Election of Dr. J. C. Warren, fourth Pres- 

 ident, 48. — Purchase of the Medical College and removal to Mason Street, 49. — Annual reports for 

 1848, 50,— and for 1849, 51;— Deposit in the Library of the books of "A Republican Institution," 52.— 

 Donation of Jonathan Phillips, 52. — Death of Dr. Martin Gay, 52. — Annual reports for 1850, 53.— 

 Early discoveries of gold in California, 54. — Review of the second decade, 55. 



Decade III, May 1850 — Mat 1860, pp. 56-81. 



Annual meetings 1851 and 1852, 57,— and of 1858, 58.— Purchase of the fossil foot-prints from the Con- 

 necticut Valley, 59.— Death of James E. Teschemucher, 59. — Annual meeting of 1854, 61. Death of 



Dr. Waldo I. Burnett, 61.— Annual meeting of 1855, 63.— Death of James Brown, 63.— Death of Dr. 

 Thaddeus W. Harris, 64,— and of the Rev. Zadock Thompson, 65.— Annual meeting, 1856, 66.— Elec- 

 tion of Dr. Jeffries Wyman, fifth President, 68.— First and only field meeting of the Society, 68.— De- 

 posit from Dr. Binney's Library, 69.— Deaths of Corresponding Members, J. W. Bailey, W. C. Redfield, 

 and Michael Tuomey, 69.— Annuiil meeting of 1857, 69.— Formation of a Section of Microscopy, and 

 bequest of the collection of Prof. Bailey, 71.— Donation of the B. D. Greene Herbarium, 71.— Annual 

 meeting, 1858, 72.— Deaths of Dr. James Deane and F. W. Cragin, 73.— Thoughts of a new building, 

 74.— Annual meeting 1859, 74,— and of 1860, 76.— Sketch of Dr. D. Humphreys Storer, 77.— Review 

 of the third decade, 80. 



