26 TRANSACTIONS OF THE [NOV. 5, 
It was resolyed that a large edition of this be printed and dis- 
tributed to all subseribers to the fund who had contributed 
$1.00 or more. 
The next meeting of the Committees was held at the residence 
of Professor Egleston, January 2, 1889, several meetings of the 
Academy’s Committee having intervened. The Secretary and 
Treasurer reported that the prints authorized at the last meet- 
ing had been executed in two sizes, one suitable for binding in 
an octavo publication, the other for framing. The larger one 
was being sent to subscribers, accompanied by a circular letter 
renewing attention to the work. He also presented the draft of 
a circular letter to be sent to the secretaries of all American 
scientific societies asking their codperation. 
At the annual meeting of the Academy, February 24th, 1890, 
the Secretary and Treasurer reported a balance of about $1,000. 
(See minutes of Academy, February 24th, 1890.) 
The slow progress in securing funds discouraged the members 
of the committees, and from this time on the members of the 
Academy’s Committee determined that personal solicitation 
was the only method that promised a successful consummation 
of the enterprise. The Chairman of the Committee took the 
matter in hand, after it having been determined to make sub- 
scriptions conditional on $10,000 being raised. On February 
23d, 1891, at the Annual Meeting of the Academy for that year, 
the Secretary and Treasurer reported a balance on hand of 
$1,818.50 and a total subscription of $3,218.50. (See minutes of 
Academy, February 23d, 1891.) 
Additional sums in large amounts were obtained during the 
next year. At a meeting of the Academy in February, 1892, 
Dr. J. A. Allen was added to the Academy’s Committee (See 
minutes of Academy, February Ist, 1892), and on March 15th, 
1892, the Committee adopted the following resolutions : 
I. There shall be a ceremony of unveiling the monument in 
Trinity Cemetery during the fall of 1892. 
II. This ceremony shall consist of: 
