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"Resolved, That the Postmaster General of the United States be re- 

 quested by this Academy to instruct the delegate of the U. S. govern- 

 ment to the International Postal Congress, about to meet in Washington, 

 to vote in favor of the proposed amendment to Article XIX of the Regu- 

 lations of the Universal Postal Union, which shall permit specimens of 

 natural history to be sent through the mails at the same rate of postage 

 as samples of merchandise, and that packages be allowed according to the 

 English Parcel Post." 



The amendment to the constitution proposed by Prof. Barr at the 

 second annual meeting was adopted. In accordance with this resolu- 

 tion Article IX of the constitution is changed to read: "This constitu- 

 tion may be amended at any annual meeting by a three-fourths vote of all 

 the resident members present," and Chapter IX of the by-laws is changed 

 to read "these by-laws may be amended by a majority vote of the mem- 

 bers present at any regular meeting." 



The secretary read brief necrological notices of the Honorable Bela 

 Hubbard, Mr. Willard S. Pope, and Mr. Lorenzo X. Johnson, resident 

 members deceased since the last annual meeting of the Academy. 



The following resolutions were adopted: 



Resolved, That hereafter it be the duty of the vice president of each 

 section to present at the annual meeting some paper on the work of the 

 section. 



Resolved, That the Academy endorse Senate bill Xo. 121, and that the 

 secretary transmit a copy of this resolution to the chairman of the 

 committee in whose hands the bill now is. 



Resolved, That the Academy formally meet in Detroit at the time of 

 the meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Sci- 

 ence, and, after transacting anj r business which may be desirable, ad- 

 journ to attend the meetings of that association. 



Resolved, That we tender our sincere thanks to the regents and faculty 

 and committee of arrangements of the University of Michigan, who 

 have done so much to make this meeting pleasant and profitable. 



In the zoological section, vice president Reighard appointed a com- 

 mittee consisting of W. B. Barrows, D. C. Worcester and L. Whitney Wat- 

 kins to look up the subject of bird legislation, and to the same committee 

 was subsequently referred the question of obtaining information about 

 the birds of the state from persons holding licenses to shoot for scientific 

 purposes. 



The election of officers for the ensuing year resulted as follows: 



President — Volney M. Spalding. Ph. D., Ann Arbor. 



Vice Presidents — Sanitary Science, Frederick G. Xovy, M. D., Ann 

 Arbor. Zoology, Jacob Reighard, Ph. B., Ann Arbor. Botany, C. F. 

 Wheeler, B. S., Agricultural College. Agriculture, Clinton D. Smith, 

 M. S., Agricultural College. 



Treasurer — Prof. W. H. Munson, Hillsdale. 



Secretary — Walter B. Barrows, S. B., Agricultural College. 



On the last day of the meeting, Friday, April 2, at 9:45 a. m., the 

 Academy listened to the address of the retiring president. Prof. W. H. 

 Sherzer, and at its conclusion took up the joint program of the Academy 

 and the Michigan Schoolmasters' Club, the subject being a biological 

 conference or symposium, entitled, Biologieal Teaching in the Second 



