188 TRANS. OF THE N. Y. ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. 
June 3, 1889. 
ReauiarR Business MEETING. 
The President, Dk. NEWBERRY, in the chair. 
Sixty-eight persons present. 
The report of the Council was read, making various recom- 
mendations, etc., all of which were voted upon, and agreed to 
without dissent, to wit: 
1. The election, as Resident Member, of 
Dr. Joun S. Russy. 
2. The payment of bills as follow: 
Issue of TRANSACTIONS, Vol. VII., Nos. 3 and 4.,.... $122 86 
Reprinting portions of back volumes.........-.022 000. 46 35 
Printing notices of meetings, etc., for two months..... 24 50 
Expenses of Publication Committee during May... .... 12 95 
Miscellaneous items........ SO ies rit ici on 4 75 
$211 41 
3. The appropriation of $600 for publications, editorial work, 
and various expenses of the Academy during the summer 
months, as specified in detail in the report. 
The paper of the evening consisted of a lecture entitled 
THE RESULTS OF RECENT ARCH MOLOGICAL EXCAVATIONS CON- 
DUCTED AT ATHENS, MYCEN@, TYRINS, EPIDOUROS, AND 
OLYMPIA, 
by Prorrssor A. C. Merriam, of Columbia College, late 
Superintendent of the American School of Archeology at Ath- 
ens. 
The lecture was extensively illustrated with maps and lantern 
views, and gave a highly interesting review of the manner and 
results of systematic investigation at these earliest seats of classi- 
cal culture, and the changes involved in many of the received 
ideas embodied in treatises heretofore regarded as authoritative. 
After adopting an enthusiastic vote of thanks to PROFESSOR 
MerRIAM, the Academy adjourned until the first Monday of 
October. 
