Record. cxv 



McPheeters aud of Prof. Louis Agassiz, for which the thanks 

 of the Academy were expressed. 



Prof. F. E. Nipher offered a resolution, recommending the 

 introduction in the United States of the metric system of 

 weights and measures. The same was adopted and the Secre- 

 tary iustructed to sigu for the Academy a petition to Con- 

 gress to that effect. 



February 5, 1906. 



President Adolf Alt in the chair; attendance seventeen. 



The Committee on the Semi-Centennial Celebration re- 

 ported progress. 



Dr. R, J. Terry presented a paper on " The Nasal Skeleton 

 of Amblystoma Punctatum. " 



February 19, 1906. 



President Adolf Alt in the chair; attendance thirty-two. 



Dr. John Young Brown and Mr. Frank Collins Baker were 

 elected to active membership. 



Prof. J. F. Abbott delivered a lecture on " The Japanese 

 Language and the Development of its Written System. " 



March 5, 1906. 



President Adolf Alt in the chair; attendance fifty. 



Dr. W. C. G. Kirchner donated seven pamphlets on fossil 

 botany. 



Prof. F. E. Nipher presented on behalf of Mr. Edward S. 

 Morse of the Peabody Museum in Sulem, Mass., a pamphlet 

 on fossil remains found in Missouri, written by Albert Koch 

 and published in St. Louis in 1840. 



Dr. W. E. Sauer was elected an active member. 



The following papers on the history of the A-cademy dur- 

 ing the fifty years of its existence were read: — 



A Sketch of the History of the Academy. — Dr. H. M. 

 Whelpley.* 



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