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October i()th, 1891. 



President Nipher in the chair ; seventeen members present, 

 also Prof. E. S. Morse of Salem, Mass. 



The Secretary reported that, in acordance with instructions 

 from the Academy, the committee appointed to draft a suitable 

 expression of the sense of the Academy in relation to the death 

 of Judge Samuel M. Breckinridge, had submitted their report to 

 the Council, and that a copy of the same had been sent to the 

 family of Judge Breckinridge. 



The report was as follows : 

 To the Academy of Science of St. Louis. 



Your committee, appointed to prepare a statement expressive of the 

 sense of the Academy relative to the loss which it has just sustained in 

 the death of Judge Samuel M. Breckinridge, beg to report as follows: 



In the death of Samuel M. Breckinridge, for more than fifteen years a 

 member of the Academy of Science of St. Louis, this Academy has lost a 

 steadfast friend of Science. Himself a student in his own profession, and 

 deeply interested in all lines of scientific research, his influence in this 

 Academy has been always given toward the encouragement of scientific 

 progress in St. Louis. 



Among the members of this Academy who are active workers in Sci- 

 ence, there are few who have not cause to remember gratefully his 

 constant and generous interest, during all these years, in all that looked 

 toward the building up of scientific enterprises in St. Louis, and who 

 have not felt the encouragement of his hopeful spirit and the stimulus of 

 his warm-hearted sympathy. 



In the Academy of Science, as in his professional and social life, his 

 hopefulness has been a constant support to his fellow- workers in the 

 midst of diflSculties, and a never-failing inspiration for the future. His 

 was one of those buoyant spirits whom adversity does not depress, and 

 who always looked bejond the difficulties of to-day to the triumph of 

 to-morrow. 



In his death the Academy has lost a wise counsellor and a sincere friend. 

 Deeply conscious of the loss which has befallen our own association, and 

 the yet wider circles of influence in this community in which he moved, 

 the members of this Academy would extend to his sorrowing family the 

 earnest assurance of their deepest sympathy — a sympathy such as those 

 only can offer who share a common loss and common sorrow. 

 Respectfully submitted, 



H. S. Pritchett, 

 ]Signed,] \ Robert Moore, 



James M* Leete, 



Committee. 





