SYIIOPSIS OF PROGEEDmaS 



OF THE 



Davenport Academy of Natural Sciences, 



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[In this abstract of the proceeding's of the Academy the records of routine and unfinished 

 business and of ineeting-s of the Trustees are omitted.] 



Jixmiary 6, 1882. — Memorial Meeting. 



In honor of Joseph Duncan Putnam, late President of the Academy, 

 who departed this Hfe December loth, 1881. The proceedings of this 

 meeting were incUided in the records of 18S1, and appear in Part III. 

 of Vohmie III. 



January 2"/, 1882. — Regular Meeting. 



President C. H. Preston in the chair; fourteen members present. 



Donations reported from Mr. F. A. Balch, Charles Hubbell, Prof. 

 W. J. McGee ; and also the shipment from C-apt. W. P. Hall of some 

 fifty vessels of ancient pottery, five skulls, and some stone and tiint 

 implements, from Arkansas mounds. 



J. H. C. Petersen, of Davenport, was elected a regular member. 



The President then announced the following Standing Committees 

 for 1882: 



Committee on Finance — F. A. Balch, E. P. Lynch, H. C. Fulton. 



Furnishing Committee — Mrs. C. E. Putnam, Charles E. Harrison, 

 Dr. C. T. Lindley. 



Publication Committee — Mrs. C. E. Putnam, Prof. W. H. Barris, 

 Dr. C. C. Parry, William H. Pratt, Dr. C. H. Preston. 



Library Committee — Miss Julia E. Sanders, J. R. Bowman, Miss L. 

 M. Pratt. 



Museum Committee — W. H. Pratt, on Archaeology; Prof. W. H. 

 Barris, on Geology and Palaeontology; D. S. Sheldon, on Zoology; 

 Miss Julia Sanders, on Entomology; J. J. Nagel, on Botany. 



Dr. C. H. Preston tendered his resignation as Corresponding Sec- 

 retary, not having time to attend to the duties of the office. 



