XXX Trans. Acad. Sci. of St. Louis. 



" The Academy of Science of St. Louis, A Biography," by 

 William Trelease, occupies fourteen pages in the Popular 

 Science Monthly for December, 1903. 



A Treasury Statement. 

 DR. ENNO SANDER, Treasurer. 



The honor has been conferred upon me as Treasurer of the 

 Academy to give you this evening a short sketch of the finan- 

 cial tide, which this worthy institution has experienced dur- 

 ing the last fifty years. It is no easy task to engineer such 

 an enterprise through breakers and floods ; but by the united 

 exertions of its members it has been successfully and securely 

 guided into a safe harbor, where it will now remain as a bene- 

 ficial ornament to its gratified city. 



Capt. Jas. B. Eads was the first Treasurer of the society, 

 elected March 10th, 1856. In January, 1857, he left a bal- 

 ance of $184.45 to his successor. Dr. S. Pollak, who collected 

 in three j^ears' service over $3,000.00, but left to his succes- 

 sor. Dr. J. S. B. Alleyne, a balance of only $61.57. The lat- 

 ter, during his two years' service, collected $936.00, which he 

 expended except for eighty-five cents, left to his successor, 

 Enno Sander, as a nucleus for a future fortune. Dr. Alleyne 

 served during that year of depression and anxiety, the first 

 year of the Civil War, during which time he collected little 

 over $100.00, perhaps all that could have been expected. 

 Times were hard and the Academy suffered under the mis- 

 fortunes of the country as much as everybody else, but the 

 energy of the active members was equal to the emergency. 

 Although their means were scant, they succeeded by volun- 

 tary subscriptions in collecting suflScient funds to maintain 

 the publication of the Transactions and thus secure uninter- 

 rupted intercourse with other scientific societies. It has been 

 asserted that St. Louis was little known to the outside world : 

 not so its scientific workers, who toiled incessantly for deserv- 

 ing the recognition which they had thus far obtained from 

 the scientific societies all over the globe through the exchange 



