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St. Louis — living in the East — his interest in the academy continues. 

 The only other member approaching these pioneers in the length of 

 connection with the academy is Dr. Enno Sander. Dr. Sander's 

 membership dates from the first year of its organization, 1856. 

 For the past thirty-five years he has been the faithful treasurer of 



.Nathaniel Holmes. 



Dr. Enno Sander. 



the academy, and at a recent meeting his friends presented to the 

 society an oil portrait of him in commemoration of the completion 

 of so long and careful a service. 



The publications of the academy have not been wholly con- 

 fined to the Transactions. On two occasions special works have 

 appeared under its imprint. First of these is an archaeological re- 

 port by W. D. Potter and Edward Evers. A party from the acad- 

 emy made considerable investigation of mounds in the neighbor- 

 hood of New Madrid in the southeast corner of the State. The 

 collections were divided for study into three groups. W. D. Potter 

 was to study the pottery, G. J. Engelmann the other relics, chiefly 

 of stone, while Dr. Evers was to report upon the human remains. A 

 quarto volume of thirty pages with twenty-four fine plates, entitled 

 Contributions to the Archaeology of Missouri, by the Archaeological 

 Section of the St. Louis Academy of Science, was printed. It is de- 

 voted to description and illustration of the pottery. So far as we can 

 find, Dr. Engelmann did nothing upon his part of the work. Dr. 

 Evers began his report upon the twenty-seven crania which were 



