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Salzburg ' ; ' Specimens of Productus from the Carboniferous limestone of St, 

 Louis Co. ' ; ' A weasel ' ; ' Specimen of a grizzly bear ' ; * An interesting suite 

 of Cretaceous and Tertiary fossils, specimens in zoology, and Indian curiosities '; 

 * Two specimens of horned frogs from South-West Missouri ' ; ' Indian curiosities 

 . . . also a fine specimen of fossil turtle {Testudo Oweni) from Nebraska'; 

 ' Specimen of Heliophyllum Halli, a Chaetetes, and a Spirifer ' ; ' A specimen of 

 tarantula, found . , . seventy miles below St. Louis' and 'A tarantula and 

 a centipede from Texas, also shells from North Alabama,' He was better able 

 than any other member to afford material assistance to the academy in its early 

 days, through his connection with the medical school, and promptly offered to 

 the new body a meeting room in the building of the O'Fallon Dispensary, con- 

 nected with the Medical School, and the use of the collections in his hands. He 

 was made chairman of the committee on comparative anatomy. 



Nathaniel Holmes* was a lawyer of wide interests and versatile talents who 

 later removed to Cambridge as Royal Professor of Law in Harvard University, 

 He was promptly elected corresponding secretary, and held that oflSce for many 

 years, making a practice of intelligently reading the more important of the 

 academy's exchanges — for the reception of his analyses of which a special order 

 of business was established. It was mainly through his efforts that the academy 

 was placed on the mailing lists of foreign bodies at a time when it had nothing 

 to offer in exchange, and in this way he contributed more, perhaps, than any 

 other member to perpetuating it when its life flagged. 



Moses M. Fallen f was one of the active physicians of the city, and a pro- 

 fessor in the St. Louis Medical College. He was made chairman of the com- 

 mittee on herpetology and ichthyology. 



Simon Pollak, who died in St. Louis a few weeks ago, at a very advanced 

 age, was an active physician. 



Charles W. Stevens was a physician, an excellent anatomist and a pro- 

 fessor in the St. Louis Medical College. He was made chairman of the com- 

 mittee on mammalogy, and, before the end of the year, recording secretary. 



William M. McPheeters, still living in St. Louis, and the sole survivor of 

 the founders of the academy, was a physician of broad interests and a professor 

 in the St. Louis Medical College. He was made chairman of the committee 

 on entomology. 



Hiram A. Prout J was a physician. He was made chairman of the curiously 

 devised committee on chemical geology and malacology. He appears to have 

 taken an active part in most of the meetings that he attended. 



Benjamin F. Shumard § was a physician and also a professional geologist 

 well known as an authority on paleontology. He was at this time occupied with 

 the geological survey of the State, and soon after the organization of the 

 academy was made state geologist of Texas. He was naturally chosen as chair- 

 man of the committee on paleontology and geology. 



George Engelmanny was likewise a practising physician, who found much 

 time for scientific research. He was a recognized authority on botany, and, 

 among other interests, cultivated meteorology, and he was justly regarded as the 

 leading scientist of the west. He was the first president of the academy, was 

 frequently reelected to that ofiice, and stimulated many of its activities. 



* Trans. Acad. Sci. of St. Louis. 11: xxvii. 



t Trans. Acad. Sci. of St. Louis. 3: ccxxii. 



$ Trans. Acad. Sci. of St. Louis. 2: 178. 



§ Trans. Acad. Sci. of St. Louis. 3 : xvii. 



II Trans. Acad. Sci. of St. Louis. 4: xc, and Supplement. 



