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Mr. Bouve placed in the town library, as an additional stimulus 
to interest in the local geology, a well-selected and carefully labeled 
series of the Hingham rocks. To these he subsequently added the 
main part of his extensive collection of minerals. The arrange¬ 
ment and labeling of this generous gift to the town, almost his last 
public work, was frequently interrupted by his failing health ; and 
he experienced no little satisfaction in not being obliged to leave it 
unfinished. 
Nothing connected with his work on the geology of the South 
Shore has afforded the writer more pleasure than the privilege, in 
association with Mr. A. W. Grabau, of giving the name of our friend 
to the glacial lake which once adorned that region and was a con¬ 
trolling factor in the development of the surface geology. Mr. 
Bouve lived long enough to note the general and cordial acceptance 
of this name ; and I venture to hope that it may long endure as a 
fitting memorial of this earliest and most devoted student of the 
geologv of the district which embraces Lake Bouve. 
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Further tributes to the character and worth of Mr. Bouve were 
made in the following letters. 
From Prof. James Hall. 
Albany, N. Y., November 28th, 181)6. 
Dear Prof. Niles:—1 have received your letter informing me that “a 
memorial meeting of the late Thomas T. Bouve will be held at the Rooms of 
the Boston Society of Natural History, on December 2d.” 
Please allow me to join in your expression of sympathy and condolence 
for the living, and of respect and love for the dead whose memory you will 
meet to honor, and to give praise for a life so largely devoted to the benefit of 
others in the advancement of good works and of real knowledge among men. 
To write of Mr. Bouve on such an occasion brings up so many reminiscences 
of my early life that I scarcely know how I may express myself in a few words. 
Mr. Bouve was the youngest and the last of those kind friends in Boston 
who so long ago welcomed and encouraged the boy and the young man in the 
course of life which he so loved and had chosen for himself ; they had faith 
in his future success. 
