2^6 DAVENPORT ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES. 



Trustees' Meetings. — Regular Trustees' meetings, 3; adjourned 

 Trustees' meetings, i ; special Trustees' meetings, 3 ; average attend- 

 ance, 9. 



Lectures. — Maj. F. F. Hilder, of St. Louis, on "Egypt," March 

 2ist, 1883; Prof. F. W. Putnam, of Cambridge, on "Altar Mounds," 

 Se])tember, 1883; Dr. Radenhausen, of Davenport, on "Aniline 

 Colors," December 28th, 1883. Miss Dr. McCowen has delivered the 

 first two of a course of six free lectures to ladies on Physiology. 



An informal class for the study of botany and analysis of plants 

 met at the Academy on Tuesday afternoons, during the summer and 

 fall — usual attendance about 7; a class in zoology also met at same 

 place during the fall. 



Members.— ^tgwXdiX members elected, 85; corresponding members 

 elected, 19; total number of members elected, 104; members deceased, 

 2. Eighteen regular members have become life members. 



Present Membership. — Regular members, 170; life members, 76; 

 corresponding members, 275. 



Visitors. — Paying visitors, 2,277; members, 1,300; visitors by in- 

 vitation, business calls, etc., 1,734; total, 5,311. 



Lucy M. Pratt, Recording Secretary. 



January 2, 1884. 



REPORT OF THE PUBLICATION COMMITTEE— 1883. 



To THE PRESmENT OF THE UaVENPORT ACADEMY OK NATURAL SCIENCES : 



The work of the PubUcation Committee for the past year (1883) 

 comprises the completion of Volume IIL, which has been in progress 

 since January, 1881. This volume, commenced under the editorial 

 supervision of J. Duncan Putnam, was virtually carried on by him to 

 the day of his death, December loth, 1881, and the concluding por- 

 tion, very appropriately commemorating his life-work, completes what 

 is known as the "Memorial Volume." The actual cost of this volume, 

 including 314 pages and 10 plates, has been $1,381.47. It brings the 

 records of the proceedings down to December 30th, 1881, including 

 the scientific papers presented during this interval and concluding with 

 the posthumous works of its previous editor. The edition of one 

 thousand copies, brought to a completion without debt, was placed at 

 the disposal of the Academy May 25th, 1883, and its distribution since 

 has continued to yield the valuable returns heretofore realized in ex- 

 changes of scientific i)ublications from nearly all known societies. 



Soon after the completion of this volume the committee took into con- 

 sideration the proi>riety of continuing the publication by commencing 

 Volume IV., wishing to bring up to date the record of proceedings and 

 make provision for the publication of scientific papers already presented 

 or promised. This movement took definite form on the reception of a 

 communication, SeiJtember 6th, from VV. H. Holmes, of the Bureau of 

 Ethnology, proposing to furnish engravings of a number of the most 

 interesting archaeological relics in the museum of this Academy under 

 certain very liberal conditions. The acceptance by the Academy of 



