Abstract of History. xv 



Harris, Charles V. Riley, Francis E. Nipher, Henry S. 

 Pritchett, John Green, Melviu L. Gray, and Edmund A. 

 Engler. 



MEETINGS. 



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

 1600 Locust Street, at 8 o'clock, on the first and third Monday 

 evenings of each month, a recess being taken from the second 

 June meeting to the first October meeting, inclusive. These 

 meetings, to which interested persons are always welcome, are 

 devoted in part to the reading of technical papers designed 

 for publication in the Academy's Transactions, and in part to 

 the presentation of more popular abstracts of recent investi- 

 gation or progress. From time to time, public lectures cal- 

 culated to interest a larger audience are provided for in some 

 suitable hall. 



LIBRARY. 



After its organization, the Academy met in Pope's Medical 

 College, where a creditable beginning had been made toward 

 the formation of a museum and library, until May, 1869, 

 when the building and museum were destroyed by fire, the 

 library being saved. The library now contains some 12,900 

 books and 9,000 pamphlets, and is open during certain hours 

 of the day for consultation by members and persons engaged 

 in scientific work. 



PUBLICATIONS AND EXCHANGES. 



Eight octavo volumes of Transactions, averaging 665 

 pages, have been published since the organization of the 

 Academy, and widely distributed. Two quarto publications 

 have also been issued, one from the Archaeological section, 

 being a contribution to the archaeology of Missouri, and the 

 other a report of the observations made by the Washington 

 University Eclipse Party of 1889. The Academy now stands 

 in exchange relations with 527 institutions or organizations of 

 aims similar to its own. 



