FIRST REPORT 



MICHIGAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCE. 



LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL. 



To Honorable Hazen S. Pingree, Governor of the State of Miehigan: 



Sir — I have the honor to submit herewith the First Annual Report of 

 the Micliigan Academy of Science, for publication in accordance with 

 Section 14 of Act No. 44, of the Public Acts of the Legislature in 1899. 



Respectfully, 



WALTER B. BARROWS, 

 Secretary of the Michigan Academy of Science. 

 Agricultural College, Mich., 

 December 1, 1899. 



