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lowing resolutions, which were recommended to the Acad- 

 emy by the Council, were unanimously passed: 



Be it resolved, that the said sum of $7,000.00 be appropriated for 

 the purpose of establishing an endowment fund, and that the officers 

 of this association be and are hereby empowered and directed, 



1. To execute the said agreement in the form herein above set 

 forth. 



2. To pay to the St. Louis Union Trust Co. as Trustee thereunder 

 when demanded by it, the said sum of $7,000.00, as a contributor to 

 the said endowment fund. 



3. When making such payment of the said sum of $7,000.00 to 

 further pay to said Trust Co. as Trustee in the name of John A. 

 Holmes the sum of $500.00 already transferred to the Academy by 

 him as a subscriber to said endowment fund. 



Febkuary 7, 1910. 



President Trelease in the chair; attendance 175. 



Reverend Martin S. Brennan read a paper on "Hal- 

 ley's Comet." 



Reverend Charles J. Borgmeyer exhibited and ex- 

 plained a stereo-model, showing the path of Halley's 

 Comet during the period of its present appearance. 



Dr. Charles A. Todd was elected to membership. 



February 21, 1910. 



Dr. Adolf Alt in the chair; attendance 26. 



Mr. C. H. Thompson presented descriptions, illustrated 

 by herbarium material and living specimens, of three new 

 Mexican plants. 



March 7, 1910. 



President Trelease in the chair; attendance 52. 



Dr. Carl Barck delivered a most interesting lecture on 

 "The Snake Dance of the Hopi Indians." 



Mr. Philip Rau presented to the Academy Museum a 

 fine specimen of a nest of Vespa maculata, from Kimms- 

 wick, Mo. 



A resolution was adopted endorsing the bill pending 

 in the House of Representatives to protect migratory 

 birds in the United States ; and the Corresponding Secre- 

 tary requested to urge the Missouri members to work and 



