134 TRANSACTIONS OF THE | FEB. 27, 
The following resolution, offered by the secretary, was 
adopted : 
Resolved, That the Council be hereby authorized to send cir- 
culars of information concerning the Academy, and invitations 
to join the same, to the members of the late Local Committee 
of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 
and to other persons desirable as members. 
The annual election of officers for the coming year was de- 
clared in order. The President appointed Mr. A. L. Ewing 
and Mr. John I. Northrop tellers. ‘The result of the balloting 
was declared as follows : 
President, J. S. NEWBERRY. ' 
First Vice-President, O. P. HUBBARD. 
Second Vice-President, W. P. TROWBRIDGE. 
Corresponding Secretary, A. A, JULIEN. 
Recording Secretary, H. L. FAIRCHILD. 
Treasurer, HENRY DUDLEY. 
Librarian, N. L. Britton. 
Councillors, J. A. ALLEN, P. H. Duptey, A. R. Leeps, 
D. S. Martin, J. J. STEVENSON, C. VAN BRUNT. 
Curators, H. C. Boron, B. B. CHAMBERLIN, S. L. ELLIOTT, 
G. F. Kunz, F. J. H. MERRILL. 
Finance Committee, J. H. HINTON, Chairman ; 8. B. Brow- 
NELL, L. KE. CHITTENDEN. 
The PresrDENT reviewed the history and work of the Society. 
In comparing the present state with the past, he now found the 
Society in a more prosperous condition than at any time during 
the thirty-six years of his membership. It gave evidences of 
youthfulness, vitality, and activity which presaged well for the 
future. 
Mr. George F. Kunz exhibited silver breast-ornaments and 
two pendent earrings of silver, found with Venetian glass beads 
and pottery, in a mound on Smidt’s Key, at the mouth of the 
Caloosahatchie River, Florida. This locality is about one hun- 
dred and fifty miles southwest of the locality which supplied 
the gold ornaments mentioned at the meeting of November 8th, 
1886." . 
1 See Transactions, Vol. VI., p. 40. [ED.] 
