50 TRANSACTIONS OF THE [Nov. 5, 
the balance to the Treasurer of the Academy under the title 
“The Audubon Publication Fund,” the interest on which shall 
be annually devoted to the publication of a Memoir on some 
zovlogical or botanical topic, if a paper suitable for such a 
Memoir shall be presented. If no such paper shall be pre- 
sented during any one year the interest shall be allowed to 
accumulate until one is presented. Memoirs published by this 
fund shall be so designated. 
The Secretary and Treasurer was directed to reserve $100 
of the balance to meet the expense of the reprints of the report 
and of their distribution, and to account for this sum to the 
Academy at a subsequent time. 
The Committee met at Columbia College, October 16th, 1893. 
The Secretary stated that owing to the failure of a quorum at 
the meeting of the Academy on June 5th the report could not 
then be presented. 
The Chairman reported that cracks having appeared on the 
die of the monument subsequent to the unveiling, it had been 
determined to be unsafe and that the builders had agreed to 
replace the stone by a new one. 
The Secretary stated that owing to this defect he had not 
paid the full bill for the monument, but that on May 22d he 
had paid R. C. Fisher & Co. $5,000 on account. It was re- 
solved that the report of the Committee be presented to the 
Academy at the Regular Business Meeting in November, 1893. 
The report was accompanied by the following documents: 
Presentation of the Monument to the Corporation of 
Trinity Church, by Prof. Thomas Egleston, 
Chairman of the Committee. 
Rey. Dr. Dix, as Chairman of the Audubon Monument Com- 
mittee, and as such representing the Academy of Sciences of 
the city of New York, I am here to present to you, the head of 
the venerable corporation of Trinity Church, this monument to 
the illustrious ornithologist, Audubon, whose remains were inter- 
