'""i amid the very living activities of this historic spol of antiquity. 

 The lecturer took occasion to exhibit slides that depicted the scenes 



of cruelty, tyranny and debauchery thai have made the uai f Caligula, 



Emperor of iiome, odious for all time to come. The lecture was replete 

 with interest and information, and w;is received with marks of the 

 h ighesl a pprecial i<>n. 



At the close of the lecture the members proceeded with the annual 

 election, and the t'ollowin-named gentlemen were unanimously chosen 

 ;is directors for the year ending June 30, 1909, viz: 



Bernard R. Baumgardt, Melville Dozier, B. E. Beeman, John 1>. 

 Hooker, P. I>. Bullard, Samuel J. Keese, Holdridge < ». Collins, William 

 II. Knight, John s. Vosburg, William L. Watts, C. A. Whiting. 



At the subsequent meeting of the directors tin following officers 

 were eleel ed : 



President — Bernard R. Baumgardt. 



First Vice-President — William II. Knight. 



Second Vice-President — .lohn l>. Hooker. 



Treasurer — Samuel J. Keese. 



Secretary^Holdridge 0. Collins. 



JUNE, 1908. 



At the final monthly meeting of the Academy Presidenl Baumgardl 

 presided and called for the report of the Secretary for the pasl year. 

 The Secretary presented an abstracl of the proceedings of the Academy 

 during the year just closing, and liis report was accepted by the Academy 

 with thanks. The report of the Treasurer being called I'm', was presented 

 in satisfactory form, showing a small balance mi hand. The thanks 

 nf thr Academy were presented to the Treasurer for his very efficient 

 services during the year. The President announced the generous gift 

 nf nnc hundred dollars toward the current expenses nf the Academy 

 from Viee Pr< sidenl John I >. Hooker. 



Me then gave a brief account of the progress being made by the 

 Director of Mount Wilson Observatory, ami his assistants, stating that 

 the sixty-inch Inns hail been successfully transported to the mountain 

 top ami is being mounted for use. He also stated that tin- greal one 

 hundred-inch Inns donated by .Mr. Jno. I). Hooker, Ins been successfully 

 cast in Paris, ami is now on its way to its final resting place on Mounl 

 Wilson. It will probably require two years ti> complete its polishing ami 

 mount ing. 



A paper by Holdridge < >. Collins, Secretary of the Astronomical 

 Section, upon the Astronomical Observatory at Vienna, and the work of 

 Professor Edmund Weiss, was received with greal attention. Mr. Collins 

 is now sojourning in Vienna, and the courtesies extended to him by 

 Prof. Weiss have enabled him to give a very interesting accounl of thai 

 great < )bservatory. 



Tim lecturer <>t' the Evening, l>r. Theodore B. Comstock, ex : presi 

 dent nt' the Academy, was then introduced, and delivered a most schol- 

 arly address on the "Music of Evolution." He wenl fully into the 

 theory of the genesis of matter, endeavoring to demonstrate that as 

 matter in its various combinations assumed the forms now extant, a 

 certain law <ii development is traceable which bears a striking resem- 

 blance to the relation of the various notes in an octave of music. 



I>r. Comstock's lecture evinced extensive research, and was highly 

 technical, Imth in matter ami composition. At the close of the lecture 

 the Academy adjourned to assemble again the first Monday in October, 

 1908. 



M ELVILLE DOZ1 ER, Secretary. 



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