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Trans. Acad. Sci. of St. Louis. 



Academy is vested in a Council composed of the President, 

 the two Vice-Presidents, the Kecording Secretary, the Treas- 

 urer, the Librarian and the two Directors. 



The office of President has been filled by the following 

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

 been eminent in some line of scientific work : George Engel- 

 mann, Benjamin F. Shumard, Adolphus Wislizenus, Hiram A. 

 Prout, John B. Johnson, James B. Eads, William T. Harris, 

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

 John Green, Melvin L. Gray, Edmund A. Engler, Robert 

 Moore, and Henry W. Eliot. 



MEETINGS. 



The regular meetings of the Academy are held at its build- 

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

 Monday 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 in- 

 terested persons are always welcome, are devoted in part to 

 the reading of technical papers designed for pubhcation 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. 



The following dates for regular meetings for the year 1904 

 have been fixed by the Council : — 



LIBRARY. 



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

 College, where a creditable beginning had been made toward 



