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The result of the experiment showed the efficiency of the former 

 system to be 56 % of the efficiency of the latter. 



The Academy listened with great pleasure to addresses by 

 Mr. Winslow, State Geologist, and Mr. R. S. Woodward, of the 

 U. S. Geological Survej^, on the work and objects of the Acad- 

 emy. 



yanuary 6ih, 1890. 



President Nipher in the chair ; fourteen members present. 



Prof. Nipher made a report on the weather of the months of 

 December, January, and February, as derived from the records, 

 begun in 1S37, by Dr. Engelmann. 



Mr. Wheeler remarked that on recently visiting the Insane Asy- 

 lum well, he found that the cistern, from the bottom of which the 

 well was drilled, was being used as a steam trap by the engineer, 

 and that the well is at present inaccessible ; that the boxes 

 which contained samples of the drillings from the well were left 

 uncovered and unprotected in the basement of the Asylum, and 

 were liable to become seriously impaired, if they wei^e not already 

 worthless, by having got mixed ; that no interest or care seemed 

 to be exercised by the officials in charge of the Asylum in pre- 

 serving the samples, or in preventing the bore-hole from getting 

 filled up with rubbish. 



The President read his annual address as follows : 



THE president's ADDRESS. 



Gentlemen of the Academy : 



It is with a feeling of satisfaction that we may pause for a moment at 

 the close of the year. With each year it is clear that we are slowly ad- 

 vancing towards the position which, from the beginning, has been the 

 aim of the promoters of the Academy. 



We are not only out of debt, but, thanks to those who have given us 

 pecuniary aid, we are beginning to enjoy an income from invested funds. 



During the past year a bequest of $1,000 has been received from the 

 estate of the late Mr. Henry Shaw. 



The publication of the will of Mr. Shaw has revealed the plan which 

 he was slowly maturing in the development of his botanical garden. He 

 founded and endowed a School of Botany as a department of Washington 

 University, and supplemented this act by giving the bulkof his great estate 



