104 TRANSACTIONS OF THE [FEB. 24, 



February 17, 1890. 



Lecture Evening. 

 Tlie President, Dr. Newberry, in the chair. 

 About two hundred persons present. 



Notice was given that in consequence of prospective absence 

 from the city, Prof. E. W. Katmond would not be able to 

 deliver his lecture in May, as announced, and that it had 

 therefore been arranged to be given, instead, on the evening of 

 March 3d. 



The lecture announced for the present occasion was then 

 delivered by Dr. H. Carrington Bolton, on 



FOUR WEEKS IN THE DESERT OF SINAI, 



largely illustrated with projections of views taken by the lec- 

 turer during his tour in that region in the spring of 1889. 

 The thanks of the audience were unanimously voted to Dr. 



BOLTON. 



February 24, 1890. 



Annual Meeting. 

 The President, Dr. Neavberry, in the chair. 

 Thirty-six persons present. 



The Recording Secretary made a verbal report, in which 

 he stated that the membership of the Academy remained about 

 the same as at the beginning of the year, — the additions bal- 

 ancing the losses by death, resignation, and removal ; — that there 

 had been abundance of material offered in the form of papers 

 and communications for the meetings ; and that the Public 

 Lecture Course had been largely attended and highly successful. 



The Secretary apologized for the informal character of his 

 report, on the ground of his absence abroad during a consider- 

 able part of the year past. 



The Corresponding Secretary presented his report, as 

 follows : — 



