Putnam.] 486 [Feb. 1, 



Lituites multieostatus(?) Whitfield, Geol. Wise, iv, p. 303, pi. xx, 



fig. 7 (fragments from Wabash, Ind.). 

 Trochoceras Desplainense McChesney, Trans. Chicago Acad. Sci., 



i, p. 52, pi. viii, fig. 1 (Niagara limestones east of Wabash, 



Ind.). 



Prof. Hyatt pointed out the characteristics of some of the speci- 

 mens exhibited by Mr. Newell. 



The question of meeting on the evenings in February and 

 March, set for the lectures in aid of the Biological Laboratory, 

 was discussed, but no action was taken. 



General Meeting, Feb. 1, 1888. 



The President, Prof. F. W. Putnam, in the chair. ■ 



The President announced that two days ago the great bota- 

 nist, whose name had been on the roll of the Society for half a cen- 

 tury, passed from our circle. 



Professor Asa Gray joined the Society in 1837 ; and in 1842, at 

 the age of 32 3 7 ears, was made an Honorary Member. This same 

 year he accepted the Fisher Professorship of Natural History at 

 Harvard, and was the first and the last of the trio of great natural- 

 ists who made Harvard College famous as a school of natural his- 

 tory a generation ago. 



The first of the three to be called from his labors was the enthu- 

 siastic and inspiring Agassiz, the zoologist and geologist, born in 

 1807. He came to the college in 1847, and died in 1873 at the 

 age of 66. 



The second was the patient and painstaking Wyman, the com- 

 parative anatomist and anthropologist, born in 1814, and made a 

 professor at the college the same year with Agassiz, whom he sur- 

 vived hardly a year, dying in 1874 at the age of 60. 



And now we have to mourn the conscientious, hardworking bot- 

 anist, who was born in 1810, became a professor at Harvard in 

 1842, and died on Jan. 30, 1888, at the age of 78. 



It is of interest that all three of these great men were students 

 of medicine at nearly the same time, Agassiz taking his degree in 



