240 PROCEEDINGS: BOSTON SOCIETY NATURAL HISTORY. 
I feel that I ought not to permit the occasion to pass without an expression 
of respect and reverence to the memory of those men who are in my mind so 
closely associated with my early acquaintance with Mr. BouvS. 
Dr. Martin Gay, the quiet gentleman, making no pretension, but possessing 
much knowledge and a good will toward all men, gave the writer his first in¬ 
struction in chemistry and permitted him to assist in the preparation for his 
lectures given in the village of Hingliam in 1880. 
Amos Binney, the gentleman par excellence, with reserved and sometimes 
austere manner, was willing to give, from his stores of knowledge, information, 
advice, and encouragement to a diffident young man who was seeking knowl¬ 
edge, and to whom at a later day, and on his last visit to Europe this young 
man was able to render some little 'service, which was cordially acknowledged 
in a letter written from abroad shortly before his death, and which is still pre¬ 
served with respect and sad remembrances. 
Dr. Augustus A. Gould, full of the love of his fellow men, always kindly, 
always willing and ready to communicate his knowledge, to encourage and help 
the student in natural history and especially in his own department of con- 
chology, was a true and earnest friend during his entire life. 
Dr. I). Humphreys Storer, the generous and high-minded gentlemen, a student 
of Nature, always overflowing with information and kind encouragement was 
an early friend of the writer, and whom it was a pleasure to meet in later life. 
George B. Emerson, the profound student and educator, was an early 
friend of the writer and continued so to the end of his life. It is my hope that 
at some time in the future I may record my great obligation to this man. 
No man had eve] 1 truer or firmer friends than these men, themselves already 
established in their pursuits and reputation, and looked upon with reverence by 
the young man whose earnest desire to know was met with kindness and 
generous assistance; and under this genial influence Nature, worshiped from 
childhood, seemed to wear a brighter and more inviting aspect, than ever before. 
Somewhat later, and through the kindness of some of these gentlemen began 
my acquaintance with Mr. Bouv^, and this acquaintance ripened into a friend¬ 
ship which was never interrupted during his lifetime. 
In the earlier years of our intercourse I was frequently in Boston and always 
at his house where I enjoyed his generous hospitality. From 1859 there 
elapsed many years when I was compelled to forego my formerly frequent 
visits to Boston and Hingliam. Afterwards returning to my former habits 
I visited Hingliam and the haunts of my childhood where I had collected shells 
upon the sea beach, and flowers in the swamps and woods ; — flowers for which 
in that former time no names were known nor means of learning how to know 
them. One of these haunts of my boyhood I found that my friend had con¬ 
verted into a paradise. And as has been so felicitously said, had “put his heart 
into the beautiful poem of his house and grounds'’ Here I was welcomed as 
of old, and 1 found my friend busy with work of preparing his catalogue of the 
plants of Hingham. But still his love for his beautiful minerals seemed always 
uppermost. Later I had the great satisfaction of going, with him, over some of 
the ground where he had been unravelling the intricacies and obscurities of 
our modern geological deposits. 
