1880.] 
17 
[Annual Meeting. 
we have heard so highly praised in this anniversary year, could not 
have been so developed without Mr. Bouve’s constant support. 
The feelings expressed by Mr. Cummings will be echoed in the 
heart of every officer in the* Society, for we have always found our 
President full of kindness and consideration, as well as just and 
sound in judgment. 
Mr. F. W. Putnam said he could not allow this opportunity 
to pass without a few words, which at best would be but a feeble ex- 
pression of his feelings ; for, in addition to a long and cherished 
friendship that every year had strengthened, his official ties to Mr. 
Bouve were double and both were broken by his resignation, since, 
as might not be remembered by all present, the President of the 
Society was ex-officio a member of the Board of Trustees of the 
Peabody Museum at Cambridge ; and while, as Curator of that 
Museum, he welcomed his friend, the new President of the Society, 
he was very sorry to lose one who had been so long connected 
with the Museum and had ever been ready to give his kindly aid 
in furtherance of its objects. 
Prof. W. H. ISTiles spoke of the large amount of work in the 
care and arrangement of the collections which Mr. Bouve had ac- 
complished during the term of his presidency. Most of this has 
been done after the business duties of the day, and how frequently 
he has remained until called home by some one, none but his family 
know. When alterations in the building were going on he habitu- 
ally inspected the entire premises after all others had gone, to see 
that all was left in safety. 
The Society has steadily progressed in its usefulness and scien- 
tific position during the administration of Mr. Bouve, and he 
now leaves the presidential chair with nothing to regret, and with 
the esteem and friendship of every member. Pay by day and 
year after year he has brought here a large heart full of geniality 
and goodness, and has been in himself a source of happiness to 
those who have known him as President. It would be a pleasure 
to reciprocate, in some small measure at least, his long continued 
kindness, and this could be best done by each member’s trying to 
make the Society so pleasant for Mr. Bouve, that, as a source of 
PROCEEDINGS B. 8. N. H. VOL. XXI. 2 JULY, 1881 . 
