NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY.

This evening the Harvard Natural History Society is to celebrate its sixtieth anniversary by a special meeting in the Fogg Art Museum at 8 p. m. Professor Shaler will give an address on the history of the society, and Mr. William T. Hornaday of the New York Zoological Society, will deliver a lecture on "The Preservation of our Native Animals." Most of the tickets have already been disposed of, but a limited number may still be had on application to W. L. W. Field, 58 Hastings. After the lecture, the members of the society and a few invited guests are asked to meet Mr. Hornaday in University 16.

The society was founded May 4, 1837, by John Bacon '37, (president), W. I. Bowditch '38, P. T. Jackson '38, T. W. Stone '38, and J. W. Thaxter '38. Members were originally taken only from the two upper classes, but this idea was given up, and the growth of the society increased rapidly. From the beginning, the college authorities granted it valuable privileges, and a room in Massachusetts Hall in which to hold meetings and keep the specimens and library. In 1860 a second room adjoining the first was acquired.

After a period of comparative inactivity, the society revived again in 1872, the place of meeting being finally settled in the old Hasty Pudding building on Jarvis street. Here the meetings were held till 1895, when the building was taken by the Architectural Department, and the collections and books mostly deposited in the Agassiz Museum.

In October, 1895, the society was reorganized in sections according to the various branches of natural history, having general meetings every month. Since then membership has steadily increased till now it is over seventy. Public meetings, at which eminent men deliver lectures on subjects of more popular interest are also held annually. The list of members contains a large number of the distinguished graduates of Harvard.