1874.] 95 [Bouv<5. 



The thanks of the Society were voted to Messrs. Matthew 

 Bartlett and C. E. Aiken for donations to the Museum. 



October 7, 1874. 



The President in the chair. One hundred and fourteen per- 

 sons present. 



After the usual reading of the records the meeting was 

 opened by the following remarks from President Bouve, in 

 relation to the death of the late President of the Society, 

 Professor Jeffries Wyman. 



After our usual summer vacation we meet together with 

 more than accustomed emotion : for, mixed with the joy of 

 greeting one another after separation, there is a consciousness 

 of irreparable loss that weighs heavily upon our spirits, a 

 recognition that there have gone away from us a force and a 

 virtue which have so long been a help and an inspiration, 

 that we cannot but feel a sense of loss such as no words of 

 mine can adequately express. Sad indeed is it for us and for 

 all, that such nobleness of nature, such wealth of acquired 

 knowledge, such purity and simplicity of life, as were mani- 

 fested in Jeffries Wyman, should pass from the world; for 

 rare, too rare, are to be found examples of such exalted char- 

 acter and attainments. 



To our Society Prof. Wyman was a great benefactor ; not 

 in the sense of a donor especially, but in the higher sense of 

 one imparting to it such honorable fame as enhanced greatly 

 respect for it, both at home and abroad. To him also was 

 the Society mainly indebted for the interest shown in our 



