Memoirs read before the Boston society of natural history; being a new series of the Boston journal of natural history. (Volumes 1 - 5 ) (1866-1904)

Society of natural history (Boston); Jefferies Wyman; Samuel L. Abbot; Alpheus Hyatt; William G. Farlow; Charles S. Minot; Thomas A. Watson; Samuel Henshaw; Samuel Scudder; Thomas Brewer

Boston : Published by the Society, 1866-1904.

5 volume set.  Quartos. Vol. 1, 1866-1869, 603 p.; Vol. 2, 1871-1878, 567. Vol. 3, 1878-1894. 509 p.;  Vol. 4. 1886-1893, 618; Vol. 5, 1895-1904, 562 p.  Additionally, numerous lithographic plates, including fold outs.  Bound in contemporary 3/4 leather over marbled boards.  Bindings are worn.  Front hinges are cracked with 3 of the boards detached. Internally very good, with clean, white pages. Institutional book plates and perforated stamps from Providence RI. 

Founded in 1830, the Boston Society of Natural History was established to promote the study and understanding of natural history.  The Society replaced the earlier New England Linnaean Society and comprised of many of the same members.  In 1946 the society renamed itself the Museum of Science, Boston, which continues to this day.  Many of the members and directors of the Society studied under noted Harvard biologist, Louis Agassiz.  These five volumes contain the Society's articles for the 38 year period between 1866-1904.  Most of the content concerns natural history and biology, with a focus on the animals of New England. - See: Johnson, Richard. "The Rise and Fall of the Boston Society of Natural History" Northeastern Naturalist , Vol. 11, No. 1 (2004), pp. 81-108. 

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