XXX Trans. Acad. Sci. of St. Loxiis. 



by the use of lantern slides, some of them from photographs 

 taken by him at the quarries and others reproducing views 

 published by Catlin and others. 



April 6, 1903. 



President Eliot in the chair, twenty persons present. 



The Council reported that the property now occupied by the 

 Phillips School, on Olive Street between Spring and Vande- 

 venter, had been purchased by Mrs. Eliza McMillan and her 

 son, Mr. William Northrop McMillan, and deeded to the 

 Academy as a memorial to the late William McMillian, who, 

 at the time of his death, was a member of the Academy. The 

 gift was referred to the Academy for appropriate action, with 

 the recommendation on the part of the Council that Mrs. 

 McMillan and her son be elected patrons of the Academy. 



The President stated that in connection with this announce- 

 ment by the Council he wished to say that it had been thought 

 advisable by the Council that the gift, which was made for 

 the purpose of giving the Academy a permanent home, should 

 be surrounded b}'^ proper restrictions as to any future sale of 

 the propert}^ which should insure the permanent possession of 

 a home by the Academy, and that he trusted that action 

 would be taken which should prevent the alienation at any 

 time of this property without the contingent acquisition of an 

 equal or better building for the Academy's use. 



Professor Nipher said : — 



Mr. President and Qentlemen of the Academy : 



I cannot allow this occasion to pass without calling attention to the great 

 significance of the announcement which has been made this evening. 



Ever since the Academy was organized, in March, 1856, its work has been 

 done under the most discouraging circumstances. It has never had a home. 

 Its meetings have been held in the meeting room of the Board of Education, 

 at a medical college, at Washington University, and in the rooms of th« 

 Missouri Historical Society. It has never had its own home, where it 

 might make its valuable library and its collections of real service to the 

 citizens of our city. During all these years of its existence the Academy 

 has been collecting a library of scientific publications, in exchange with 

 similar societies in all parts of the world. Our published Transactions have 

 gone to every civilized land. We have certainly had the outward semblance 

 of great scientific activity. There is no local Academy of Science in this 



