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with their danger days and storm periods just as before, and yet the 

 weather has paid no attention to them. 



The winter, so far, has been sufficiently remarkable to attract the 

 attention of any prophet who can predict. There were only two days in 

 December and there were only eleven days in January when the daily 

 mean was below the freezing point. There have been only four days in 

 the whole winter, up to date, when the daily maximum did not rise above 

 .the freezing point. We had a tornado on the 12th, when there was noth- 

 ing in the shape of a planet to produce it. 



Vulcan is marked as likely to make trouble on the 5th, 17th, and 28th, 

 and there are no other causes for weather during the entire month; and 

 here came a tornado, without any cause, on the 12th. When could a tor- 

 nado or storm occur in order to disprove the theory of " planetary equi- 

 noxes" if the many storms which occur midway between the predicted 

 dates do not disprove it? 



Feb7-uary I'jth, 1890. 



Vice-President Dr. Leete in the chair; eleven members 

 present. 



Discussion on the revision of the Constitution and By-laws. 



March -^d, 1890. 



President Nipher in the chair ; thirteen members present. 

 Discussion on the revision of the Constitution and By-laws 

 continued. 



March I'jth, 1890. 



President Nipher in the chair ; eight members present. 



In response to an appeal from the University of Toronto for 

 assistance in forming a new library to replace the one destroyed 

 by fire on the night of the 14th of February, 1890, the librarian 

 was instructed to send a set of the Transactions of the Academy. 



Prof. Wheeler presented a paper on "Recent Additions to the 

 Mineralogy of Missouri," in which he gave a list and exhibited 

 specimens of 37 minerals that have been found occurring in Mis- 

 souri since the publication of Mr. Leonhardt's paper in iSSo. 



Discussion on the revision of the Constitution and By-laws con- 

 tinued, and new Constitution adopted. 



