PROCEEDINGS 
’•> of the 
BOSTON MOCIETY ; OF ; MTURAL HISTORY. 
TAKEN FROM THE SOCIETY’S RECORDS. 
Annual Meeting, May 2, 1888. 
The Vice President, George L. Goodale, in the chair. 
The following reports were presented : 
Report on Museum. By Alpheus Hyatt, Curator. 
The affairs of the Society have taken on a more promising as- 
pect, and a revival of interest in its doings has been apparent dur- 
ing the past year. This has been noticed in the increase of average 
attendance at the meetings mentioned in the Secretary’s report, 
in the number and variety of the original communications and in 
the number of new members elected. 
We have, also, after more than twenty years of consideration, 
at last taken definite steps towards the establishment of a Natural 
PROCEEDINGS B. S. N. H. VOE. XXIV 1 (1) JULY, 1888. 
