PROCEEDINGS 
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BOSTON SOCIETY J0J- NATURAL HISTORY. 
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TAKEN FROM THE SOCIETY’S RECORDS. 
Annual Meeting. May 5 , 1880 . 
Vice-President, Mr. S. H. Scudder, in the chair. Thirty-four 
persons present. 
The following reports were presented : — 
Report of A. Hyatt, Custodian. 
The official year ending to-night has been in some respects one 
of the most important in the history of the Society. 
It is marked not alone as being the termination of the first -half 
century in the Society’s existence, but by the fact that our 
Museum has at last begun the career for which we have been pre- 
paring during the past ten years. 
The fruits of these years of labor have been presented to the 
eyes of those who wished to see for themselves for twenty years 
past, but none of these material results have even partially repre- 
sented us, except the publications. These, so far as they go, are 
creditable, since the memoirs and essays are necessarily as complete 
in their way as the culture of the minds from which they ema- 
nated. It must not be forgotten, however, that the paucity of our 
PROCEEDINGS B. S. N. H. VOL. XXI. 1 JULY, 1881 . 
