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Bahlsen (Berlin), Prof. Dr. Ludwig Boltzmann (Vienna), 

 Senor Alfredo Chavero (Mexico), Prof . Theodor Escherich 

 (Vienna), Prof. Shibasaburo Kitasoto (Tokio), Geli. Ober 

 Reg. R. Theodor Lewald (Berlin), Count Limburg-Stirum 

 (Berlin), Prof. Henri Moissan (Paris), Geh. Rath Dr. Johann 

 Orth (Berlin), Prof. Wilhelm Ostwald (Leipzig), Sir William 

 Ramsay (London), Prof. Ernest Rutherford (Montreal), 

 Prof. J. W. Van 't Hoff (Berlin), Geh. Rath Prof. Dr. 

 Wilhelm Waldeyer (Berlin), Prof. Dr. Wassermann (Berlin), 

 Geh. Rath Prof. Dr. L. Wittmack (Berlin), from all of 

 which courteous letters of acceptance have been received. 



OFFICERS AND MANAGEMENT. 



The officers, who are chosen from the active members, con- 

 sist of a President, two Vice-Presidents, Recording and Cor- 

 responding Secretaries, Treasurer, Librarian, three Curators, 

 and two Directors. The general business management of the 

 Academy is vested in a Council composed of the President, 

 the two Vice-Presidents, the Recording Secretary, the Treas- 

 urer, the Librarian and the two Directors. 



The office of President has been filled bv the following well- 

 known citizens of St. Louis, nearlv all of whom have been 

 eminent in some line of scientific work : George Engelmann, 

 Benjamin F. Shumard, Adolphus Wislizenus, Hiram A. 

 Prout, John B. Johnson, James B. Eads, William T. Harris, 

 Charles V. Riley, Francis E. Nipher, Henry S. Pritchett, 

 John Green, Melvin L. Gray, Edmund A. Engler, Robert 

 Moore, Henry W. Eliot, and Edwin Harrison. 



MEETINGS. 



The regular meetings of the Academv are held at its build- 

 ing, 3817 Olive Street, at 8 o'clock, on the first and third 

 Monday evenings of each month, a recess being taken between 

 the meeting on the first Monday in June and the meeting on 

 the third Monday in October. These meetings, to which 

 interested persons are always welcome, are devoted in part to 

 the reading of technical papers designed for publication in the 



