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PROCEEDINGS 



BOSTON SOCIETY OF NATURAL HISTORY. 



TAKEN FROM THE SOCIETY'S RECOEDS. 



Annual Meeting, May 5, 1869. 



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

 members present. 



Mr. S. H. Scudder presented the following Report. of the 

 Custodian for the past year : — 



In my last annual report I alluded to a topic which al- 

 though not directly connected with the operations of the 

 Society, seemed to demand its earnest attention. I refer to 

 the refusal of the State Legislature to act upon the petition 

 of the Society's Council for an extension of the proposed 

 new edition of Dr Gould's Invertebrates of Massachusetts. 

 Owing to the necessary and most fortunate delay in the pub- 

 lication of this work, an opportunity offered itself for a re- 

 newal of our plea, before a committee and a legislature more 

 open to reasonable suggestions ; and to-night I am happy to 

 state that although the cost of the original edition was found 

 to be largely in excess of the estimates, a Resolve was intro- 

 duced into the House of Representatives on the twentieth 

 of April last, both supplying the requisite deficiency, and 

 authorizing an increased edition of eight hundred copies. 

 Four hundred copies were to be given to this Society for 

 distribution "to foreign public institutions of a similar nature, 



PROCEEDINGS B. S. N. H.— VOL. XIII. 1 AUGUST, 1869. 



