TRANSACTIONS OF THE ACADEMY. 



1 )lRKCT()RS' MeKTING 



A duly called meeting of the Directors was held on Wednesday, 

 August 28, 1912, in the office of the Secretary, at the hour of one 

 o'clock P. M. Present, Messrs. Spalding, Knight, Davidson, Parsons, 

 Watts and CoUins. 



Mr. Collins announced that he was preparing to take his daughter 

 upon a voyage around the world, expecting to be gone at least a year, 

 and inasmuch as this Academy should have constantly at its home 

 office a Secretary who could act with all the authority pertaining to 

 that office, he resigned his position as Secretary ; and thereupon, for the 

 purpose of having the record of this meeting duly engrossed and cer- 

 tified, he was elected Secretar}- pro tempore. 



Mr. Arthur B. Benton was elected Secretary for the unexpired 

 term. 



Mr. Collins reported that he had sent to the Museum Building, for 

 temporary keeping, all the half-tones, electrotypes and cuts, — the ac- 

 cumulation of many years, — used in illustrating the several volumes 

 of the Bulletin, all the back numbers of the Bulletin now remaining, 

 and most of the volumes and monographs of the Library, retaining 

 only a few volumes for the use of the Secretary and members, who 

 would find it inconvenient if not impossible to go to the Museum Build- 

 ing. 



This disposition of the Academy jiroperty was approved. 



Board adjourned. 



HoLDRiDGE O. Collins, 

 Secretary Pro Tempore. 



Omitted, 1iy error, from publication of former 'I'ransactions of the Acailemy. 



Academy MEi-rriNc. 



The January, 1916, meeting of the Academ}- was held on the 

 eleventh day of the month in the Friday Morning Club House. 



Mr. William A. Spalding presented an address ujion "Oersted's 

 Experiment or the Beginning of the Electrical Age." 



Academy Meeting. 



On February 17, 1916, at the regular monthly meeting of the 

 Academy, the members were greatly interested by a discourse from 

 Dr. George LeMont Cole, describing the Great Canyons of Arizona 

 and New Mexico and the remains of the ancient Cliff Dwellers. Hi^ 

 very graphic relation was illustrated liy views upon the screen. 



Directors' Meeting. 



.\ Directors' meeting was held in the Union League Club on 

 Thursday, March 30, 1916. Present, Messrs. Alliot, Benton. Collins, 

 Davidson, Keese, Parsons and Watts. 



The Treasurer gave a statement of the financial condition of the 

 Academy, and the Secretary made a report regarding the numerous 

 letters he was constantly receiving from Listitutions for advanced 

 students, Libraries and Scientific Bodies from all sections of the Lnited 

 States, desiring to be placed upon the distril)ution list for our Bulletin, 

 and that the present income warranted neither larger e(Htions nor a 

 more frequent issue of the Bulletin. 



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