HARVARD NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY 
. 1837 
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The members of the Harvard Natural History Society take great pleasure in electing you an 
lember. 
Since its founding in 1837, this society has endeavored “ to promote interest in the study of 
Natural History in Harvard University,” and it has been an important factor in developing interest in 
the Natural Sciences at Harvard during the second half of the last century, as is shown by the following 
list of some of its past members : 
FRANCIS PARKMAN 
EDWARD TUGKERMAN 
THOMAS WENTWORTH HIGGINSON 
JOSEPH H. CHOATE 
EDWARD EVERETT HALE 
CHARLES ELIOT NORTON 
Horace Howard furness 
PHILLIPS BROOKS 
ALEXANDER AGASSIZ 
MOORFIELD STORY 
Nathaniel soothgate shaler 
THEODORE ROOSEVELT 
Such men as these, who have proved themselves to he exceptionally successful specialists, created 
and supported the Harvard Natural History Society for their mutual benefit and pleasure. 
During the last few years interest in the Society has been on the wane, principally because of 
increased “ specialization ” and the development of departmental clubs and conferences. 
On November 3d, 1916, twenty-three graduate students from the departments of Archaeology, 
Ethnology, Botany, Zoology, Geology and Geography, Mineralogy and Petrography, met at the Harvard 
Club of Boston and decided to revive the Society in the spirit of 1837. 
The executive council and officers of the Society are planning meetings, smoke-talks, etc., which 
will be of such general interest that they will appeal to the members of all the departments. It is hoped 
that the Society will also afford a means of extending a warm welcome to all students who come to carry 
on their graduate work in Natural History at Harvard. 
President: 
Cambridge, Mass. 
