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Decade IV, Mat 1860-Mat 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, 82. — Grant of land to the Society and the Massachusetts Insti- 

 tute of Technology, 83. — Annual meeting 1861, 88. — Sale of building on Mason Street and tem]>orary 

 removal to Bulfinch Street, Si. — Plans for the new building, 85. — Large osteological ad<litions, 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 fi-om Dr. W. J. Walker, 87. — Con- 

 tracts for the new Building, 87.— Annual reports for 18G2, 87.— Death of Dr. B. D. Greene, 88.— Gift 

 of the Megatherium cast, 91. — -Annual meeting of 1863, 91. — Deaths of Dr. George Hayward 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 Working 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 Biyant, 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 diiferent 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 IL F. Wolcott Fund, 138. 



Decade V, Mat 1870-Mat 1880, pp. 140-243. 



Duties of the salaried officers, 141. — Election of Thomas T. Bouv^, 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 Curamings 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 Agassiz, 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, 165. — Annual meeting 1874, 



165. Gift of the Eser 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. Jeffi^-ies 



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 



