1881 .] 
198 
[Officers. 
The auditing committee, Messrs. Cummings and Greenleaf, 
reported the Treasurer’s accounts correctly cast and properly 
vouched. 
The three reports were accepted and ordered to be placed on 
file. 
The Society then proceeded to the election of officers for the 
ensuing year. Messrs. E. T. Bouve and S. F. Whitney being 
requested to collect and count the ballots, reported that the fol- 
lowing were unanimously elected 
OFFICERS FOR 1881-82: 
PRESIDENT, 
SAMUEL H. SCUDDER. 
VICE-PRESIDENTS, 
JOHN CUMMINGS, F. W. PUTNAM. 
CURATOR, 
ALPHEUS HYATT. 
HONORARY SECRETARY, 
S. L. ABBOT, M.D. 
SECRETARY, 
EDWARD BURGESS. 
TREASURER, 
CHARLES W. SCUDDER. 
LIBRARIAN, 
EDWARD BURGESS. 
J. A. Allen, 
Samuel Cabot, M.D., 
Thomas Dwight, M.D,, 
W. G. Farlow, M.D., 
Geo. D. Good ale, M.D., 
H. A. Hagen, M.D., 
B. Joy Jeffries, M.D., 
Augustus Lowell, 
J. Amory Lowell, 
COUNCILLORS, 
Edw. S, Morse, 
Wm. H. Niles, 
A. S. Packard, Jr., M.D., 
R. H. Richards, 
N. S. Shaler, 
Chas. J. Sprague, 
M. E. Wadsworth, 
Samuel Wells, 
Wm. F. Whitney, M.D., 
Rev. G. Fred. Wright. 
Theodore Lyman, 
MEMBEBS OF THE COUNCIL, EX OFFICIO. 
Ex-President, Thomas T. Bouv^, 
Ex-Vice-Presidents, Richard C. Greenleaf, 
D. Humphreys Storer, M.D. 
PROCEEDINGS B. S. N. H. VOL. XXI. 13 DECEMBER, 1881 
