12 PROCEEDINGS: BOSTON SOCIETY NATURAL HISTORY. 
REPORT OF THE SECRETARY AND LIBRARIAN, 
GLOVER M. ALLEN. 
Membership. 
During the year 1903-1904, the Society has lost by death five 
Corresponding Members — Charles E. Beecher, Hermann Behr, 
Augustus R. Grote, J. Peter Lesley, and Karl A. Zittel. Seven 
Corporate Members have also died during the year — Charles W. 
Galloupe, Francis C. Gray, Nathan B. Prescott, Gen. Alfred P. 
Rockwell, Charles J. Sprague, Andrew G. Weeks, Samuel Wells. 
Charles W. Galloupe and Charles J. Sprague were also Patrons. 
Nine Corporate Members have resigned. 
Twenty-seven new Corporate Members have been elected during 
the year, so that the total gain in membership for the year is but 6. 
The names of these new members and the dates of their election are 
as follows: — 
Michael J. Ahern, March 11, 1904. 
Arthur C. Bradley, March 11, 1904. 
Walter R. Brinckerhoff, M.D., December 16, 1903. 
C. Emerson Brown, March 11, 1904. 
Edward S. Bryant, November 13, 1903. 
Owen Bryant, November 13, 1903. 
John T. Coolidge, 3d, March 11, 1904. 
Philip T. Coolidge, December 16, 1903. 
George Y. N. Dearborn, M.D., April 22, 1904. 
Frank S. Elliott, November 13, 1903. 
Richard S. Eustis, March 11, 1904. 
Miss Margaret C. Ferguson, April 22, 1904. 
George A. Fisher, March 11, 1904. 
Elisha Flagg, M.D., March 11, 1904. 
Edward C. Jeffrey, April 22, 1904. 
Douglas W. Johnson, December 16, 1903. 
Clarence C. Little, March 18, 1904. 
Harvey M. Mansfield, April 22, 1904. 
Nathaniel C. Nash, Jr., April 22, 1904. 
Charles S. Iiackemann, March 11, 1904. 
Alfred Rehder, April 22, 1904. 
