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He was kindness itself to every student, always ready to give the 
desired advice, and to push their interests in every way in his 
power. As he was Dean of the Faculty for nine years, they had 
ample opportunity of witnessing the constant outflow of his sym- 
pathetic nature. To many of us it was permitted to enjoy the 
warm hospitality of his bright and cheering home. 
NATURALIST. 
But it is in the capacity of naturalist that you will be chiefly 
interested in Dr. Storer’s career. It was this Society that led 
him to become one, and he was in turn one of her earliest, 
strongest, and most devoted builders. 
There can be but few of those present this evening who can 
have a personal knowledge of what this Society was in what I 
cherish as its golden age. Let me recall for a moment that room 
in Mason Street, not so large as to lose its appearance of home- 
like comfort, the long table in the center covered with its many 
objects of novel interest, the seats which closely surrounded it on 
three sides, upon which were usually seated the brothers Rogers, 
Storer, Gould, Cabot, Jackson, Agassiz, Pickering, Gray, Brewer, 
Bryant, our departed and revered masters and friends, and among 
these elders, still with us, Bouve and Sprague. At the head of 
the table sat the man whom all looked up to and all loved, our 
President, Jeffries Wyman. Think what must have been the 
valuable character of the communications carefully prepared by 
such men, of the intense interest of the discussions carried on 
by them when incited by debate, for this was the period when 
the whole fabric of biology was in a state of upheaval, — the Dar- 
winian epoch. The Society was then what might be called a 
delightful natural history club. Every object added to its collec- 
tions had a personal interest to some member; and it was re- 
ported upon by another. All the work upon the cabinets was 
done by members without pay. There may have been some 
neglect, but there was a vast amount of good work done in those 
days. 
Among those who were most active in developing the So- 
ciety from its small beginnings to this successful era was a 
body of physicians, who were largely the pioneers in the cultiva- 
tion of natural science in this community. Among them were 
Drs. Green, Binney, Harris, Ware, Warren, Channing, and 
