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other, modelled its plan of action, and whose wisdom and fore- 

 thought still guides us. Around the collection made and pre- 

 sented by him has grown up our whole cabinet. The first paper 

 printed in the pages of our Journal was contributed by him, and 

 for the period of seventeen years, from the first organization of 

 the Society till his death, he was one of its most efficient officers. 

 He was called to preside over its councils, and in every way in 

 his power contributed to its growth and progress. Some of us 

 remember with gratitude, how unselfishly, and with how much 

 pleasure he encouraged the student of nature, and how generously 

 he opened his resources for study to all. He loved and studied 

 nature himself, and rejoiced in every well-meant endeavor to 

 advance, and in every step made in the progress of natural 

 science. His name I need not mention, it is already in your 

 thoughts, and has been suggested to you by the treasures of 

 knowledge now opened out before us, the treasures which his 

 bounty enabled him to accumulate, and which he desired might 

 be useful to others as well as himself. These he had profoundly 

 studied, and in accordance with his munificent wish, they are now 

 committed to our keeping as a living fountain from which the 

 student of nature is invited to draw. 



It has been truthfully said of him, by one of our number, and 

 no one could better appreciate his motives of action, " that he 

 loved the works of nature, not as objects of scientific interest 

 only, but as beautiful manifestations of divine wisdom, adapted at 

 the same time to afford the well-disposed mind, gratification of 

 the purest and deepest kind. As a lover of nature, he viewed 

 with delight the whole landscape ; as a naturalist, he loved to 

 study the relations of individual parts." " And when with his 

 generation, his memory as a man, an enterprising citizen, a father, 

 and a friend shall have passed away, his name must ever appear 

 among the pioneers of science in America as one of its most 

 substantial supporters, and as having contributed materially to 

 the enlargement of its boundaries." * 



On motion of Mr. James M. Barnard, it was 



* Dr. A. A. Gould ; from the memoir prefixed to the work on the Terrestrial 

 and Air-Breathing Mollusks of the United States, by Amos Binney, M. D. 2 vols. 

 8vo. 



