Abstract of History^ 



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OFFICERS AKD MAXAGEMEXT. 



The officei"s. who are chosen from the active members, consist 



of a President, two Mce-Presidents, Recording and Correspond- 



.ing Secretaries, Treasurer, Librarian, three Curators and two 



Directors. The general business management of the Academy 



is vested in a Council composed of the officers. 



The office of President has been filled bv the following well- 



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known citizens of St. Louis, nearly all of whom have been emi- 

 nent in some line of scientific work: George Engelmann, Benja- 

 min F. Shumard, Adolphus "Wislizenus, Hiram A. Prout, John 

 B. Johnson. James B. Eads, William T. Harris, Charles V. Riley, 

 Francis E. Xipher, Hemy S. Pritchett. John Green, Mehin L. 

 ■ Gray, Edmund A. Engler, Robert Moore, Hemy "\V. EHot, 

 Edwin Harrison, Adolf Alt and CaMn 3J. Woodward. 



MEETIXGS. 



The regular meetings of the Academy are held at its building, 

 3817 Olive Street, at 8 o'clock, on the first and third Monday 

 evenings of each month, a recess being taken between the meet- 

 ing on the first ]\Ionday in June and the meeting on the third 

 Monday in October. These meetings, to wliich interested per- 

 sons are always welcome, are devoted in part to the reading of 

 technical papere designed for pubhcation in the Academy's Trans- 

 actions, and in part to the presentation of more popular abstracts 

 of recent investigation or progress. From time to time public 

 lectures, calculated to interest a larger audience, are provided 

 for in some suitable hall. 



The following dates for regular meeting for the year 1908 have 

 been fixed bv the Council: — 



Jan. Feb. Mar, 



April. 



Mav. I June. 



Oct. I Nov. I Dec. 



