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In 1860 he resigned the office of Vice-President, having then 
served the Society in various capacities for thirty years. During 
this long period he had been a constant attendant at its meetings. 
If you open the first volume of the Proceedings, published in 
1841, you will find that his name is the first word on the first 
page, and so through many succeeding volumes the pages will 
be found thickly occupied by his interesting and valuable com- 
munications. Of the scientific character of these contributions, 
and of his more extensive and elaborate publications I shall have 
nothing to say, as you are now to hear an opinion of their merits 
expressed by so competent an authority in the department to 
which they chiefly relate. 
He was a generous donor also to the collections of the Society, 
and to its needs in other ways. In that most interesting history 
of our Society prepared by our ex-President, Mr. Bouv6, we find 
this statement: “Dr. D. Humphreys Storer was continually 
bringing forward specimens for the cabinet. At one time he 
presented seventy specimens, all carefully put up by him in glass 
bottles and labelled. To his generosity mainly was due the fact, 
that out of one hundred and twenty species of Massachusetts 
fishes then known, ninety were in the collection, and every de- 
scribed reptile of the State, with one exception.” Later in this 
volume will be found a most appreciative and extended tribute 
to the conspicuous services of Dr. Storer, such in fact as only 
one could write who had also labored without ceasing for the in- 
terests of the Society for a lifetime. It is to such noble men and 
zealous workers as these that our Society owes its high position 
among the scientific bodies of the world. 
The degree of LL.D. was conferred upon him by Bowdoin 
College in 1876. 
But how shall I in the few remaining words allowed me, repre- 
sent to you the salient characteristics of the man himself? He 
was an enthusiast in every part of his being and in every act of 
his life. It is not strange, therefore, that he was successful in 
all his many-sided phases of activity. He was fearless, impul- 
sive, impatient of every selfish or deceitful purpose or act in 
others, and outspoken. It is not to be wondered at, therefore, 
that he was not without adversaries. He was genial, generous, 
and kind to his fellow-men of every degree. I need not repeat, 
therefore, that all returned his affection in exceptional measure, 
patients, co-workers in science, pupils, and friends. 
