Record. xxxvii 



bullet are to be summed up in an alternating current. The 

 results which seem to have been reached are in entire harmony 

 with the well-known experiment of Michelson and Morley,who 

 found that the ether within the building in which they worked 

 was being carried along with the building and with the earth 

 in its orbital motion. 



Reports of Officers for the Year 1901. 



Submitted January 6, 1902. 



The retiring president, Mr. Robert Moore, presented the 

 following address : — 



Members of the Academy of Science of St. Louis: 



In retiring from the office that since the deeply regretted departure of 

 Prof. Engler from the city has for a few months been occupied by me, it 

 gives me plea»ure to record that during the past year the work of the 

 Academy has been carried on with success. 



ATTENDANCE BY MEETINGS. 



Sixteen me -tings have been held with an average attendance of twenty- 

 eight persons. This is somewhat less than during the year 1900, when for 

 reasons of an exceptional nature the attendance for several meeting-* was 

 unusually large, but it is considerably larger than the average of the five 

 preceding years, 1895-99, and has been more regular than in those years. 



