xxvi Trans. Acad. Sci. of St. Louis. 



December 19, 1898. 



President Engler in the chair, sixteen persons present. 

 The nominating committee reported the following nomina- 

 tions for officers for the year 1899 : — 



President Edmund A. Engler. 



First Vice-President Robert Moore. 



Second Vice-President D. S. H. Smith. 



Recording Secretary William Trelease. 



Corresponding Secretary Joseph Grindon. 



Treasurer Enno Sander. 



Librarian G. Hambach. 



Curators . — G. Hambach, 



Julius Hurter, 

 Hermann von Schrenk. 



Directors M. H. Post, 



Amand Ravold. 



Mr. O. M. Wood addressed the Academy on the Sociology 

 of the Negro, emphasizing the negro's faithfulness, cheerful- 

 ness, and love of music ; and in speaking of the prospects of 

 the negro race for the future he laid stress on the fact that 

 the negro is ever grateful for assistance from the vs^hite man, 

 and fully realizes that his advancement is impossible without 

 such assistance. The speaker's remarks were illustrated by 

 lantern slides showing typical negroes in the savage state. 



Reports of Officers for the Year 1898. 

 Submitted January 9, 1899. 

 The President addressed the Academy as follows : — 



Oentlemen : 



It devolves upon me, according to the time-honored custom of Presi- 

 dents of this Academy, to make some remarks upon the present status o 

 our society and the prospects for the future. I am glad to be able to con- 

 gratulate the Academy upon its present condition. This Academy has never 

 been without a nucleus of earnest workers in science, who form the life of 

 the society, whose devotion to science enables us, in our modest way, to 

 carry on our meetings in a truly scientific spirit, to devote our thoughts and 

 attention, for at least two nights every month, to subjects which are aside 



