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The following resolution by C. E. Harrison was adopted: 



Resolved, That the Davenport Academy of Natural Sciences hereby • 

 expresses its appreciation and full satisfaction with the arduous work 

 of Miss Alice M. Beach in arranging the Academy library for cata- 

 loguing its contents. 



Mrs. Putnam, as a Committee of one, rei)orted concerning the pur- 

 chase of the Presbyterian Church property. The Trustees of the 

 church offered the property for ^6,000, $500 to be paid when the Acad- 

 emy takes possession. 



The following resolution by Dr. C. H. Preston was adopted: 



Resolved, That Mrs. M. L. D. Putnam, Mr. C. A. Ficke and Maj. 

 G. P. McClelland be appointed a committee with power to act in the 

 matter of the purchase of the Presbyterian Church property, corner 

 of Brady and Seventh streets. 



April 30, i8g8 — Regular Meeting. 



Edward S. Hammatt, President, in the chair. The minutes of the 

 previous meetings read and approved. 



Treasurer's report received and placed on file. 



The Librarian reported 148 books and pamphlets and 10 bound 

 volumes received. 



In addition to those thus obtained by way of exchange, other 

 important accessions have been made. The whole entomological 

 library known as that of J. Duncan Putnam's has been formally cata- 

 logued and numbers 270 volumes. 



From a private library sixty-seven volumes have been received. A 

 collection of sixty-one volumes, mostly government publications, some 

 of them extremely rare, was contributed by Dr. S. C. Bowman of 

 Andalusia; from Prof. Barris we have forty volumes, mainly on geol- 

 ogy and palaeontology, none of which were previously in the library — a 

 total of 596. 



The Curator reported the following additions to the museum from 

 Dr. S. C. Bowman of Andalusia: One pair of exquisitely prepared and 

 mounted deer-horns, two large birds separately mounted, two cases of 

 birds, the larger containing twenty-six, with name and locality of each; 

 the smaller, seven ; also alcoholic preparations of reptiles from west- 

 ern Texas and Mexico. 



Capt. Hall reports the purchase of a stone axe and thirty-seven flint 

 implements, paid for from the mound fund. 



