Abstract of History. xlv 



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

 John Green, Melvin 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 Mon- 

 day evenings of each month, a recess being taken between 

 the meeting on the first Monday in June and the meeting on 

 the third Monday in October. 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 investigation or progress. 

 From time to time public lectures, calculated to interest a 

 larger audience, are provided for in some suitable hall. 



LIBRARY. 



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

 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 13,624 books 

 and 9,869 pamphlets, and is open during certain hours of the 

 day for consultation by members and persons engaged in 

 scientific work. 



PUBLICATIONS AND EXCHANGES. 



Ten thick octavo volumes of Transactions have been pub- 

 lished 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 rela- 

 tions with 560 institutions or organizations of aims similar to 

 its own. 



