PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



BOSTON SOCIETY OF NATURAL HISTORY. 



TAKEN FEOM THE SOCIETY'S RECORDS. 



Wednesday, June 15, 1870. 



Vice President, Dr. C. T. Jackson, in the chair. Forty-eight 

 persons present. 



Voted, on motion of Mr. C. J. Sprague, to suspend the 

 rules and make the Report of the Nominating Committee 

 first in the order of proceedings. 



Mr. Edward Pickering, in behalf of the Nominating Com- 

 mittee, presented the following report : — 



The committee appointed at the last meeting of the Society to 

 nominate a President, have attended to that duty, and beg leave to 

 report. The name which first suggested itself to your Committee 

 ■was that of our first Vice-President, Charles T. Jackson, one of the 

 earliest, most constant and devoted of the friends of this Society. 

 Upon his unwearying interest in its welfare, his liberal contributions 

 to its treasures, his courtesy as a presiding officer, his well-known 

 scientific attainments, it is not necessary, in the pi-esence of this 

 Society to enlarge. We are all witnesses. But the reception of the 

 following letter has prevented the Committee from offering his name 

 as a candidate for the office. 



PROCEEDINGS B. S. !N T . H.— VOL. XIV. 1 JUNE, 1871. 



