296 DAVENPORT ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. 



The Committee on Resolutions reported the following, which was 

 adopted and entered on the minutes : 



The Davenport Academy of Natural Sciences takes this occasion to put 

 upon record its profound sense of bereavement in the death of Major 

 George Pressley McClelland. For a quarter of a century or more he has 

 been one of its main supporters. He was among its most generous patrons. 

 In 1883, with Hon. George H. French and Nicholas Kuhnen, he raised some 

 $3,oco for the debt and endowment of this institution. He was a most 

 faithful trustee and treasurer. He secured Prof. Richard A. Proctor and 

 other lecturers for the Academy course and in countless ways labored for 

 the advancement of science. We mourn the loss of a citizen whose char- 

 acter was pure and lofty. We lament the departure of a friend whose 

 gentle manners and courtly carriage won the love of all who knew him. 



John B. Donaldson. 

 Mary L. D. Putnam. 



The following committees were appointed for 1899 : 



Finance — W. C. Putnam, J. B. Phelps, C. A. Ficke. 

 Publication—Mrs. M. L. D. Putnam, Prof. W. H. Barris, Prof. S. 

 Calvin, Dr. C. H. Preston. 

 Archeology — C. E. Harrison. 

 Geology — Prof. W. H. Barris. 

 Conchology — Miss S. F. Sheldon. 

 Zoology — Dr. A. W. Elmer. 

 Botany — A. A. Miller. 

 Entomology — Prof. H. B. Osborn. 

 Library — C. E. Harrison, Charles Francis, E. M. White. 



February 24, 189Q — Regular Meetinc. 



President Francis in the chair ; seven members present. 



The Curator reported the following additions to the Museum : 



From Albert P. Morse of Wellesley College a collection of new 

 American Odorota and, to the Library, his paper containing a full 

 description of the same, a paper on "The Study of New England 

 Species of Spharagenion," and four papers entitled "Notes on the 

 Acridse of New England." Dr. Scudder has presented the original 

 drawings from which were engraved the illustrations of his paper, just 

 published in Volume VII. of the Proceedings of the Academy. From 

 George R. Putnam, a collection of Eskimo implements, including 

 spears five or six feet in length, furnished with bone sockets and de- 

 tachable ivory points, adapted to different kinds of game, birds and 

 fish. They were accompanied by a throwing stick by which a pow- 

 erful momentum is given the spear. 



