232 PROCEEDINGS: BOSTON SOCIETY NATURAL HISTORY. 
no account of services which are not of a definite nature. Thus, 
although Mr. Bouve continued for years after this date to help by 
his presence and advice in the work on his favorite collections, 
as far as his health permitted, there is no printed record of these 
important services. Nor is there any mention of the constant over¬ 
sight and watchfulness which his residence near the Society enabled 
him to maintain. Mr. Bouve’s purchase of a residence, 40 Newbury 
Street, was mainly due to his desire to be near our building, and he 
came very often to see that all was secure. 
Mr. Bouve has not only been closely associated with the active 
work done in Mineralogy and Geology within the Museum, but 
he took a keen interest in the field work and in the investigations 
that followed Professor Crosby’s efforts to build up and improve the 
New England sections of these departments. 
I refer to the original researches into the Geology of Eastern 
Massachusetts and especially that of the Boston Basin by Prof. W. O. 
Crosby. 
In themselves they are of great importance to science and in 
connection with our New England collections they point out the 
paths of development for all other departments until this Society 
shall have made and published a complete history of the Mineralogy, 
Geology, Botany, and Zoology of this region based upon similar 
investigations. 
Mr. Bouve not only found time outside of the absorbing cares of 
the life of a business man for the cultivation of the departments that 
he loved and had been interested in from the first days of his 
entrance into this Society, he was also President from 1870 to 1880 
and, therefore, constantly on duty in connection with that office, pre¬ 
siding at the meetings of the Society and of the Council, but he also 
did a large amount of work as chairman or member of committees 
that were from time to time appointed for the consideration or 
execution of various plans. 
One of the most important of these was that which started the 
Teachers’ School of Science in January, 1871. This committee 
began the work, which has been continued with but few interruptions 
until the present date, and this school has been engaged in educating 
the teachers of our public schools in natural science by objective 
methods for the last twenty-six years. lie was also one of those 
who in the year 1870 effected a co-operative contract with the 
Institute of Technology which has also continued in force until the 
