BOUVE, Thomas Traey, merchant, born in Boston, Massachusetts, 14 January 1815. He received his education in the Boston public schools, and at the age of twelve began his business career, in which he was eminently successful, and amassed a large fortune. His leisure has been devoted to the study of natural history, and for many years he filled the office of curator and councillor to the Boston society of natural history, becoming its president in 1870, and continuing as such until 1880. Mr. Bouvd has contributed many scientific papers to the proceedings of that society, and is the author of a" History of the Boston Society of Natural History for the First Half Century of its Existence, ending in 1880" (Boston).