3 12 DAVENPORT ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. 



and collectors have spent so many years in accumulating. To you, 

 honored Bishop, and through you to the Trustees of Griswold College, 

 I wish to extend the sincere thanks of the Davenport Academy of 

 Sciences for this most generous and valuable gift. 



On motion of C. E. Harrison, seconded by Dr. C. H. Preston, it 

 was resolved that the Academy accept the gift, and that sincere thanks 

 be extended to Bishop T. N. Morrison and the Trustees of Griswold 

 College, and that the following report of a meeting of a committee ap- 

 pointed by the Trustees of Griswold College bespread upon the minutes: 



The committee appointed by the Trustees of Griswold College at a 

 meeting held June 12/ 1900, to whom was referred the disposal of the 

 library and other property — geological specimens, minerals, shells, 

 etc., etc. — belonging to the Griswold College, with power to act, held 

 a meeting at the Episcopal residence, Davenport, Iowa, on July 27, 

 1900. Present: the Bishop, the Rev. N. S. Stephens, and the Rev. 

 C. H. Weaver, L.L.D. 



The Rev. Dr. Weaver was appointed Secretary. The following 

 motion was passed unanimously : 



Resolved, That all such books as relate to science, and such other histor- 

 ical books as the authorities of the Academy may think of value to the 

 institution, together with all specimens relating to the several departments 

 of geology, mineralogy and conchology be and they are hereby presented 

 to the Davenport Academy of Sciences, together with the cases in which 

 they are arranged, it being the conviction of the committee that this valu- 

 able collection should be kept together and placed where it may be exam- 

 ined and studied by the largest number of people. 



Theodore N. Morrison, Clinton H. Weaver, 



Bishop of Iowa. Secretary of Com7>iittee. 



After the meeting, those attending paid a visit to Science Hall, the 



newly acquired building, in the basement of which the valuable col- 



ections were arranged. 



September 28, 1900 — Regular Meeting. 



The President, Mrs. Putnam, in the chair ; seven members present. 

 The Curator reported the following donations to the museum : 

 From ■ Prof. J. A. Udden, a package of Fusilina from the coal 

 measures of Pottawattamie county, Iowa. From W. H. Forrest, a 

 portrait of Mrs. D. S. True; a collection of the larger ocean shells 

 with many smaller forms ; corals, ancient and recent, large and small; 

 and minerals — some very fine — from western localities. From G. 

 R. Putnam, a very fine mounted fur seal from Pribilof Islands; the 

 skin of a Greenland polar bear ; and a pair of Eskimo gloves. From 

 Mrs. Tracy, Harbor Point, Mich., two polished specimens of coral 

 from the Hamilton group, and a specimen of opalized agate. From 

 W. C. Putnam, four horizontal show cases and six upright wall cases 

 for the museum. 



