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deemed necessary to exact terms or security from him. In virtue of this the Class, 
in the discharge of its duty, presents the following proposition: 
‘*The proposition of Mr. Andreas Grayson is admitted, conformably to the tenor 
of these suggestions. 
**L.. RiO DE LA Loza.” 
ce MEXICco, Feb. 26th, 1866. 
* Articles 1, 2, 3, 4, 8, 9, and 10 are approved without alteration. To the 5th 
article the following addition is made: The author will deliver to the Class every 
three months his drawings and writings—if this time is not sufficient, a time more 
convenient will be determined. 
“Article 6th is amended thus: The Academy receives the work, admits the pro- 
priety, and commits its direction to the Physical Mathematical Class to complete 
the same with the co-operation of Mr. Grayson. 
** Article 7th remains in this form: The Academy will fix the price of the work, 
will pay all expenses, and should it result in profit, will divide such profit with 
Mr. Grayson. 
‘With the above amendments it is decided that this opinion pass to the Minister 
of Public Instruction, in order that he arrange with Minister of Hacienda to open 
the respective credit to the Academy. 
** FRANCISCO PIMENTEL, 
“* Secretary of the Interior. 
** MEXICO, March a2ist, 1866.” 
By the unfortunate termination of his contract with the Academy 
of Sciences he was once more left without means to carry on his 
work. The Boston Society of Natural History and the Smith- 
 sonian Institution have been considered as having assisted him in the 
exploration of the Sierra Madre Mountains. ‘‘ Neither of the above 
Institutions” says Mrs. Grayson-Crane, ‘‘aided Mr. Grayson in 
any manner. Just previous to his death, the Smithsonian Institu- 
tion sent him two hundred dollars, requesting him to explore the 
Sierra Madre Mountains, which amount I, (by my husband’s re- 
quest) returned and I have Prof. Henry’s receipt for the same.” 
The exploring trips which Grayson made, at his own ex- 
pense, to the Tres Marias Island and to Socorro Island have been 
fully treated of in his accounts edited by Mr. Geo. N. Lawrence * 
with which is given annotated lists of the birds. It was a memor- 
_ able expedition to Socorro, The little vessel was wrecked, and 
: they poor ag rescued by a passing vessel which landed them 
_ *On the Physical Geography and Natural History of the Islands of tbe Tres 
- Marias and “of Socorro, off the Western Coast of Mexico. By Col. Andrew J. 
Grayson. Edited by Geo. N. Lawrence. Proc. Bost. Soc, Nat. Hist., xiv, 1871, 
— 261-303. 
