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porters or other unauthorized persons, to be taken from the building ; and 

 that the Recording Secretary should be instructed to return all such docu- 

 ments, so soon as he shall have transcribed them, into the custody of the 

 Curator, to be by him classified and kept in a desk provided for this especial 

 purpose. Respectfully submitted, 



Mary L. D. Putnam, 

 W. H. Barris, 

 C. H. Preston. 



For the Committee. 



The Secretary read a coiiimunication from Mrs. Margaret W. 

 Holmes, under date Decembers, 1896. Accompanying the letter was 

 a check for twenty-five dollars from herself and daughter with the fol- 

 lowing note : 



" Twenty-five dollars to be used in some practical way for the comfort 

 and convenience of the frequenters of the Academy, to remind them of their 

 friend and associate, William H. Holmes." 



A vote of thanks was extended to the donor and President Ham- 

 matt, Dr. Barris and C. E. Harrison were appointed a committee to 

 expend the money in accordance with the wishes expressed. 



The Committee on Revision of the Membership List were, on re- 

 tjuest, granted further time to complete the work. 



The following communication, embodying a report of the results of 

 the Glazier expedition of 1891 to determine the true source of the 

 Mississippi River, was presented by Mr. C. E. Harrison and referred 

 to the Publication Committee : 



To THE Officers and Members of the Davenport Academy of 

 Natural Sciences. 



On July 13, 1 89 1, a letter was received from Capt. Willard Glazier 

 expressing the desire that a member of this Academy join an expedition 

 that he was organizing to^go to the headwaters of the Mississippi dur- 

 ing the month of August. At the solicitation of a number of officers 

 and members of the Academy I accepted Capt. Glazier's invitation and 

 accompanied him and his genial party. On my return I rendered a 

 verbal report descriptive of the expedition. Now, however, as the 

 Proceedings of the Academy from January, 1889, to the present time 

 are to be published, it seems desirable and perhaps of historic import- 

 ance, that some record of this expedition, of which the Librarian of 

 the Academy was a member, should appear therein, and at the request 

 of the President I herewith 'submit a brief statement in accordance 

 with notes taken at the time. It will be remembered that in 1881 

 Capt. Glazier, with a small party, made a trip to the Lake Itasca re- 

 gion and discovered that^the true source of the great river did not lie 

 in Itasca. His party in meandering the shores of Itasca with the aid 



