xlii Trans. Acad. Sci. of St. Louis. 



Professor F. E. Nipher presented a diagram on which was 

 drawn the curve of speed of the trotting horse. This curve 

 represents the equation published by him twenty years ago. 

 On the same diagram was shown a belt of observed values 

 representing the performance of every horse who has broken 

 the speed record since 1845. In some cases a single horse 

 has broken the record several times in the same year. All 

 such observations were included. The points representing 

 these observations formed a belt within which was the curve 

 of predicted speed. The agreement was considered very 

 satisfactory. 



Mess. Edward Mallinckrodt, Jr., Gustav Nautze, and A. 

 Kaphael, were elected to active membership. 



Five persons were proposed for active membership. 



November 2, 1903. 



Vice-President Smith in the chair, thirty-five persons 

 present. 



The following papers were presented, accompanied by 

 abstracts: B. F. Bush, A new genus of grasses; J. A. 

 Harris, Polygamy in Solanum; and J. A. Harris, The germi- 

 nation of Pachira, with a note on the names of two species. 



Mr. Trelease read an address on The Academy of Science 

 of St. Louis — a biography.* 



Mess. J. A. Harris, H. C. Irish, W J McGee and Oscar 

 Riddle, of St. Louis, and Dr. Jos. Zawodny, of Schloss 

 Lobes, Mscheno-Melnik, Bohemia, were elected to active 

 membership. 



November 16, 1903. 



Vice-President Smith in the chair, twenty-two persons 

 present. 



The Council reported the death of Dr. J. B. Johnson and 

 Mr. I. W. Morton. 



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