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made for a general address by some scientific man of high standing and 

 wide reputation, and for a short resume of the Academy's history. 



4. That a framed panel of portraits of the members present at the organ- 

 ization meeting be secured and presented to the Academy. 



Statements were also made as to the probable expense of 

 carrying out the proposed plan, and the means of insuring 

 its success, and the further recommendation was made that, 

 if the plan were considered practicable by the Council, it be 

 adopted and authorized and the task of carrying it out placed 

 in the hands of a committee of three, to be named by the 

 President. 



The report of the preliminary committee was submitted to 

 the Council at its meeting of December 18, 1905, when it 

 was unanimously approved and ordered submitted to the 

 Academy with recommendation that the plan of the committee 

 be adopted and provision made for carrying it out, — it being 

 understood that the treasury of the Academy should not be 

 drawn on beyond the sum of $25.00 to meet the expenses of 

 the celebration, all of which the committee believed could 

 be provided for otherwise. 



At the Academy meeting of December 18, the recom- 

 mendation of the Council was unanimously adopted and the 

 President announced his continuance of the preliminary 

 committee as a Committee of Arrangements, with full power 

 to act. 



Because of his advanced age, Dr. Sander shortly after- 

 ward asked to be relieved from duty on the committee, and 

 Dr. Spiegelhalter was named by the President as its third 

 member. It was soon found that in addition to the details 

 suggested by the preliminary committee, it would be prac- 

 ticable to strike a commemorative medal, in bronze, replicas 

 of which might be presented to all persons present at the 

 dinner, to all contributors to the fund needed for carrying 

 out the plans for the celebration, and to all societies repre- 

 sented by delegates, and the committee decided on this step, 

 selecting the seal of the Academy for the obverse, and a 

 portrait of George Engelmann, its first president, for the 

 reverse. It was also decided that members might secure in- 



