344 DAVENPORT ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES. 



Miss Emma A. Rice, Dr. C. R. Baker, F. J. Walz and Edward C. 

 Roberts were elected regular members. 



September 27, iSg^ — Regular Meeting. 



President Hammatt in the chair ; five members present. 



The Curator reported the removal of the mineral collections from 

 the library room above to the south front room below, thus making 

 additional shelf room for books, amounting to five hundred feet. 



Dr. Edward Gudeman and M. Spelletich were elected regular 

 members. 



A committee was appointed to prepare resolutions on the death of 

 Prof. C. V. Riley. 



October 24, i8g^ — Adjourned Meeting. 



President Hammatt in the chair ; nine members present. 



Further additions to the museum from Dr. S. C. Bowman, now of 

 Andalusia, 111., were reported by the Curator. 



The Librarian reported progress in the re-arrangement and classi- 

 fication of the library. 



A report was read from Prof. Frederick Starr of his recent visit to 

 the City of Mexico to attend the Congress Intertiational des American- 

 istes. Being unable to remain for the congress as the date of meeting 

 had been postponed, he had left a paper descriptive of the work of the 

 Davenport Academy. 



The following biographical sketch of the late Prof C. V. Riley, 

 prepared by Prof. H. F. Wickham of the Iowa State University, was 

 presented by Mrs. M. L. D. Putnam. Prof. Riley was an honorary 

 member of the Academy and much interested in its welfare : 



CHARLES VALENTINE RILEY, A.M., PH.D. 



Though the fame of Dr. Riley rests chiefly on work done in this 

 country, he was by birth and early training a foreigner, having been 

 born in England in 1843. His early education was received in Great 

 Britain and on the continent where he acquired that familiarity with 

 the French and German languages which proved of so much value in 

 his later investigations. At about his seventeenth year he came to 

 America, where, after spending a few years on an Illinois farm, he be- 

 came a member of the journalistic force of a Chicago paper and, by 

 his writings therein on economic entomology, laid the foundation of 

 the high regard in which he is everywhere held. 

 ■ His first official work seems to have been in the capacity of state 



