126 PROCEEDINGS: BOSTON SOCIETY NATURAL HISTORY. 
OFFICERS FOR 1896-97. 
PRESIDENT, 
WILLIAM H. NILES. 
VICE-PRESIDENTS, 
NATHANIEL S. SHALER. CHARLES P. BOWDITCII. 
_ EDWARD S. MORSE. 
CURATOR, 
ALPHEUS HYATT. 
SECRETARY, 
SAMUEL HENSHAW. 
TREASURER. 
EDWARD T. BOUVE'. 
LIBRARIAN, 
SAMUIvL HENSHAW. 
COUNCILLORS 
•Edward A. Bangs. 
William Brewster. 
Miss Cora H. Clarke. 
William G. Farlow. 
FOR THREE YEARS, 
Robert T. Jackson. 
George H. Parker 
A. Lawrence Rotch. 
William T. Sedgwick. 
COUNCILLORS FOR TWO YEARS, 
Her mon C. Bump us, 
Charles B. Davenport. 
William A. Jeffries. 
George G. Kennedy. 
Augustus Lowell. 
Miss Susannah Minns. 
Thomas A. Watson. 
Samuel Wells. 
S. L. Abbot. 
William S. Bryant. 
William M. Davis, 
J. Walter Fewkes. 
COUNCILLORS FOR ONE YEAR, 
Edward G. Gardiner. 
Henry W. Haynes. 
Miss Catharine I. Ireland. 
Benjamin Joy Jeffries. 
Thomas T. Bouve. 
John Cummings. 
councillors ex-officiis, 
George L. Goodale. 
F. W. Putnam. 
Samuel H. Scudder. 
