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trous. In our Proceedings we have finished the twelfth, and 

 extended far into the succeeding volume, printing in all 291 

 pages. A small edition of the last annual report of seventy- 

 six pages was printed separately for special distribution, and 

 the address of Professor Agassiz at our recent celebration of 

 the Humboldt centennary, together with an account of the 

 evening's festivities, an octavo pamphlet of one hundred and 

 seven pages, has been largely distributed. 



And here we may refer to the part which the Society took 

 in celebrating the centennial recurrence of the birth day of 

 Humboldt ; conceived and carried to a successful issue 

 mainly through the energy and perseverance of the Rev. 

 R. C. Waterston, the Society is deeply indebted to Professor 

 Agassiz both for the heartiness with which, though suffering 

 in health, he undertook an unaccustomed task, and for the 

 characteristic simplicity and able manner in which he carried 

 it out. As the financial results of the day $7,040.66, mainly 

 the result of special subscriptions, have been placed in the 

 hands of the Trustees of the Museum of Comparative Zool- 

 ogy as a Humboldt Scholarship, for the benefit of young and 

 needy persons engaged in study at that Museum ; the officers 

 of the Museum have formally accepted the trust. 



The transmission of our publications to home and foreign 

 Societies has, of course, been small, yet we must not omit to 

 thank the Smithsonian Institution for continued liberality in 

 their free delivery abroad. "We have sent away 30 parts 

 of the Memoirs, 18 volumes and 8 parts of the Journal, 15 

 copies of the Harris Correspondence, 2 copies of the An- 

 nual, 5 of the yearly Reports, 86 complete volumes and loose 

 sheets equivalent to about 265 volumes of the Proceedings — 

 amounting in all to over 200,000 octavo pages. 



Besides these publications, we have distributed on behalf 

 of the Commonwealth, three hundred copies of the Report 

 on the Invertebrates of Massachusetts, recently published by 

 the State. The Council petitioned for five hundred copies ; 



