Record. li 



Malvern B. Clopton, Henry C. Garnean, William L. R. 

 Gifford, John H. Gundlach, Henry P. Hilliard, Robert 

 McKittrick Jones, Alfred L. Kammerer, Alfred Q. Ken- 

 nett, Robert MeCnlloeh, Thomas H. McKittrick, Alfred 

 Lee Shapleigh, Wilson P. H. Turner, Daniel S. Tuttle, 

 C. A. Waldo, Percy AVerner, Oscar L. Whitelaw, H. E. 

 Wiedemann. 



March 1, 1909. 



President Trelease in the chair; attendance 54. 



Mr. Julius Hurter read a paper entitled "The Amphib- 

 ians and Reptiles of Arkansas," compiled by himself and 

 Mr. John K. Strecker, Jr.^^ 



Mr. Hurter also showed specimens of the blind sala- 

 manders of the world — Proteus anguinus (European 

 blind salamander), Typldotriton spelaeus (Missouri), 

 and Typhlomolge rathbuni (Texas). 



The following resolution was adopted: 



The Academy of Science of St. Louis, an organization equally 

 interested in the preservation and the proper and consistent utilization 

 of the gifts of Nature, respectfully urges on the Congress of the 

 United States the desirability of promptly passing the House Joint 

 Resolution now under consideration, as a means of continuing the pro- 

 visions of the Burton Bill, limiting the diversion of water from Niag- 

 ara Falls, until equally effective but more permanent protection of 

 the Falls shall be secured by adequate legislative or executive action. 



On proper motion, duly seconded and unanimously carried, at a 

 meeting of the Academy held on the first day of March, 1909, the 

 foregoing memorial was adopted as expressing the views of the 

 Academy; and copies were ordered sent to the Speaker of the House 

 of Representatives, the President of the Senate, and the gentlemen 

 who represent Missouri in both branches of the present Congress. 



The following were elected to membership : George D. 

 Barnard, George AVarren Brown, Theophilus Conzelman, 

 Harvey L. Christie, Hanford Crawford, Dwight F. Davis, 

 Charles H. Duncker, Jacob Furtli, C. Stuart Gager, Ben- 

 jamin Gratz, C. H. Huttig, David F. Kaime, H. P. Knapp, 

 John Lawrence Mauran, Fritz Nisbet, Leo Rassicur, 

 Charles A. Stix, W. S. Stuyvesant, M. E. Towner, Julius 

 S. Walsh, Rolla Wells, Louis Werner. 



21 Published in Transactions, Vol. XVIII., No. 2. 



