President — Francis E. Nipher, 

 15/ VHce-President — Jas. M. Leete. 

 2d Vice-President — M. L. Gray. 

 Corresponding Secretary — Edward Evers. 

 Recording Secretary — E. A. Engler. 

 Treastirer — Enno Sander. 

 Librarian — G. Hambach. 



!G. Hambach, 

 Chas. Liideking, 

 \ Jas. A. Seddon. 



February 6th, 1888. 



President Nipher in the chair ; eleven members present. 



Prof. Trelease explained by illustrations on the blackboard 

 what is meant by the karyokinetic figures of vegetable-cells, and 

 showed vmder the microscope a slice of smilaceas with the nu- 

 clei undergoing division preparatory to the segmentation of the 

 cells in a growing petal, and remarked on the general similarity 

 of cell-division in animals and plants. 



February 20th, 1888. 



President Nipher in the chair ; eleven members present. 



Prof. Trelease, for the Committee appointed to prepare a suit- 

 able memorial in respect to the death of Dr. Asa Gray, reported 

 the following : 



ASA GRAY. 



In the death of Prof. Asa Gray, of Harvard Univerity, which occurred 

 Jan. 30th, shortly after the completion of his 77th year, American Science 

 loses a leader greater than anj' other known to the present generation, and 

 it is fitting that the St. Louis Academy of Science should place on record 

 its affectionate appreciation of the man and his work. 



As a teacher Dr. Gray was successful in imparting knowledge and in 

 stimulating thought. Though it may be thought he had not that special 

 talent for making naturalists so remarkably developed in Agassiz, he pos- 

 sessed in an unusual degree the power of interesting others in his special- 

 ty, and the present wide-spread taste for botanical work in the country is 

 largely attributable to the example which he himself set, and to the force 

 and clearness of his popular writings. 



