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ment of dues. Nine new members joined us in 1881, so that the Academy 

 now has 99 associate members. A new number of your Transactions, the 

 second of volume four, is now in the printer's hands and almost ready for 

 publication, and matter for number three is rapidly accumulating. 



Your Treasurer has thus far been able to meet the demands against 

 him, principally originating in the publication of the Transactions; but 

 it will be necessary that the members should liquidate their debts to the 

 Academy with promptness to enable him to pay the printer's bills now 

 about falling due. As yet you live, so to speak, from hand to mouth, but 

 you have always been able to keep up your credit with the world of Sci- 

 ence by the publication of your transactions, and must keep up your com- 

 mercial credit and your existence by a proper attention to the claims of 

 your Treasurer. 



But in your new home it is expected that your meetings will attract 

 greater public attention ; you will draw around you the promoters and lov- 

 ers of science in your city, the scientific zeal now awakening all over the 

 land will also increase among us, the number of members will augment, 

 and, with the new forces they will bring, the meetings will be more attrac- 

 tive, and the visible results of your work — your Transactions — will bear 

 the name of your Academy, and of the city that fosters it. to all parts of 

 the civilized world. 



The Report of the Corresponding Secretar}' showed that seven 

 new corresponding members have been added during the year 

 and two have died, viz., John M. Bigsby, m.d., f.g.s., London, 

 and James Robb, Esq., Cincinnati, Ohio. 



The exchanges are now as follows : 



Sweden 5 



Holland 12 



Belgium 10 



Spain 3 



Mexico 6 



Prov. of Brit. Amer. 10 



Russia 10 



Germany 104 



France 29 



Portugal 1 



East Indies 7 



United States 117 



Denmark 3 



Switzerland 11 



Italy iS 



South America 7 



Great Britain 31 



In behalf of Dr. Mudd, a collection of snakes from southern 

 Illinois was presented to the Academy, and was received with a 

 vote of thanks. 



Dr. Engelmann remarked on the temperature of the year 18S1, 

 that it was one of the warmest we have had, although no month 

 of the year except August was warmer than corresponding 

 months previously observed. The drouth during the summer 

 was marked, and came at a time when it did most harm. The 

 amount of rainfall was not much less than the average. Dr. 

 Engelmann also stated that the remaining months of the year 



