Annual Meeting.] 
450 
[May 4, 
the Boston Basin, 80 pages have been printed. This volume will 
consist of five separate parts or monographs and it is hoped that 
the plan of publishing the parts separately will be adopted as it is 
probable that the sale of the earlier parts will provide a consider- 
able portion of the means required for the publication of the later 
ones. 
Besides the regular publications a guide to the geological col- 
lection, also by Professor Crosby, is printing. The expense of this 
publication has been provided for outside the resources of the 
Society. 
Walker Prizes. 
Last December the President appointed a committee consisting 
of Mr. T. T. Bouve, chairman, Dr. Alexander Agassiz, and Prof. 
James Hall to recommend the names of one or more persons 
worthy of the fourth award of the Grand Honorary Prize. On 
April 20 the committee unanimously reported the name of Prof. 
James D. Dana and recommended that in view of the distin- 
guished services of Professor Dana, the maximum sum of one 
thousand dollars be awarded. The recommendation of the com- 
mittee was adopted by the Council. 
On April 22 the President wrote Professor Dana as follows : 
My Dear Sir : 
A Grand Honorary Prize, placed at the disposal of 
the Boston Society of Natural History, was instituted by the late 
Dr. William J. Walker, “for such investigation or discovery as may 
seem to deserve it, provided such investigation or discovery shall 
have been made known or published in the United States at least 
one year previous to the time of award.” 
The Council has unanimously awarded the maximum prize of 
one thousand dollars to you. 
At the same meeting in which the award was made, the Coun- 
cil desired me to convey to you its sincere congratulations that 
your scientific activity, covering a period of more than half a 
century, is still fruitful in valuable results. At a time of life 
when many students would seek release from labor, you are seek- 
ing for new problems to investigate, and you maintain to-day an 
untiring interest in the first subjects which commanded your at- 
tention. You have made three broad departments of natural 
history your own. Your published work in these three depart- 
ments contain the record of discoveries which have enriched 
American science. 
