554 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF [1893. 



general or any special fund in a Trust Company to keep the same 

 invested and reinvested subject to the approval of the Finance Com- 

 mittee and in the name of the Academy and to collect the revenues 

 therefrom and deposit the same upon interest till expended. Such 

 arrangement shall be made by a written article revocable at pleasure 

 of the Finance Committee or of the Council." 



Chapter VI, Art. 1. The word " lawful " was stricken out and 

 the words "approved by the Finance Committee" were added after 

 "securities." A like amendment was made to Chapter VII, Art. 1. 



Chapter IX, Art. 2. For the words a " semi-annual " the words 

 " an annual " was substituted and for " five " the word ' ' ten " was 

 substituted, the words "and July" being stricken out. 



Chapter II, Art. 4. The word "annual" was substituted for "semi- 

 annual ' ' and a like amendment was made in Chapter IX, Art. 6. 



On favorable recommendation of the Council an offer from Mr. 

 Maxwell Sommerville of $2,000 for the Academy's interest in the 

 American reprint of the Encyclopedia Britannica bequeathed to the 

 Academy by the late Mrs. Sommerville, was accepted. 



The Academy is indebted to Mrs. Clara Jessup Moore for the 

 sum of $5,000, the interest derived from which is to be used for the 

 assistance of young women desiring to devote themselves to the study 

 of natural history under the same rules and regulations as those 

 governing the Jessup Fund. 



A contribution by the Curators of a number of crania ot American 

 aborigines to the ethnological exhibit forming portion of the Colum- 

 bian Exposition held at Madrid in commemoration of the discovery 

 of America received the recognition of a bronze medal. 



With a view to securing a lowering of the rate of postage on 

 specimens of natural history sent through the mails a committee ap- 

 pointed for the purpose prepared and distributed a circular to a 

 number of foreign societies and journals soliciting such influence 

 with their governments as may help to secure the object desired. 



Until last summer the accumulated correspondence of the Academy 

 from its foundation, together with a large number of documents and 

 reports relating to the operations of its several departments, were 

 securely placed, but with no systematic arrangement. Having, 

 through the continued kindness of certain friends of the Academy, 

 been again enabled to secure the services of Siguor E. Fronani on 

 certain days during a portion of the year, I have avaded myself of the 



