4 THE MUSEUM. 



At the same meeting, November 24tli, 1845, the following 

 officers were elected : 



President — Jared P. Kirtland, M. D. 

 Fh'st Vice President— Sherlock J. Andrews. 

 Second Vice President — Charles W. Heard. 

 Third Vice President — William D. Beattie. 



Curators: 



William Case, Rupus K. Winslow, 



Hamilton L, Smith, Jared P. Kirtland, 



Samuel St. John, J. Lang Cassells, 



Henry C. Kingsley, Charles Whittlesey. 



Profs. Kirtland, Cassells and St. John are, by the Consti- 

 tution, the legal Trustees for life. 



The managers of the College Building, at the corner of 

 St. Clair and Erie streets, which was then surrounded by 

 vacant grounds outside of the city, reserved a fine room on 

 the second floor, over the lecture room, for a Museum. 



A large part of the expense of fitting it for that i)urpose 

 was assumed by the society. As usual, in associations 

 based on annual payments, the treasury very soon became 

 empty. Resort Avas had to a ladies' fair, a very common 

 device to meet the difi'erence between expenses and 

 receipts. It was an enthusiastic and successful aflfair. 



The cost of furnishing the room was about $1,000, of which 

 the members had paid a little less than $400, and the ladies 

 a little more. 



No written stipulation was entered into, showing the 

 relations of the society to the College, and no record of the 

 contents of the Museum is to be found until 1858. As the 

 papers which were then executed come nearer to a history 

 and a record of that part of the business than anything 

 extant, they are given below in full. 



In the meantime the interest of the public had abated, 

 the members paid few of their dues, very few visitors went 

 to the room, and the Curators, to avoid personal liability for 



