2 DAVENPORT ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES. 



The constitution devolves on me the duty of making a report on " The 

 condition and inogress of the Academy in all its departments.'''' This 

 report will necessarily consist, in a great measure, of a condensed sum- 

 mary of the reports of the various officers, as follows, viz : 



The Recording Secretary, Mr. Charles E. Harrison, reports, that 

 during the year there were held ten regular meetings of the Academy, 

 with a mean attendance of eighteen members ; one special meeting, with 

 an actual attendance of thirty-nine; four regular and nine special meet- 

 ings of the Trustees, with a mean attendance of ten. He also reports 

 that lectures were given by Professors Gregory, Butler, Hailman and 

 Parvin, and that papers were read by the following gentlemen, viz : 

 W. W. Calkins, A. D. Churchill, C. E. Harrison, J. Gass, W. H. Barris, 

 J. D. Putnam, W. H. Pratt, R. J. Farquharson and H. Strecker. He 

 also reports the election of sixteen persons as regular members, and 

 twenty-seven persons as corresponding members. Thirty-four names 

 have been dropped from the roll, leaving the present number of regular 

 members 188, of whom fifty-three are life members. There are also 210 

 corresponding and six honorary members. 



Of the great labors of our indefatigable Corresponding Secretary, 

 I must allow his own report to speak, contenting myself with the mere 

 mention of the fact that during the year 700 letters were received and 

 427 written. During the year the first part of Volume II of the Proceed- 

 ings of the Academy, was sent to all institutions which had in any way 

 acknowledged the receipt of the first volume. The number of copies 

 thus disposed of was 2::59, which, with eight copies missing, leaves 275 

 copies on hand at this date. Of the first volume of the Proceedings, 

 eighteen copies were given in exchange, and nineteen copies lost while 

 moving into the new building, leaving 205 copies now on hand. 



The reports of the Treasurer and of the Finance Committee will 

 speak for themselves. The financial condition of the Academy is quite 

 as favorable as we could expect, considering the great depression of bus- 

 iness during the past year. 



The report of the Curator, Mr. W. H. Pratt, presents a statement 

 of the condition of the Museum, which need not be quoted here ; it will 

 suffice, to state in a general way that the Museum has had numerous 

 additions in its various departments, some of them of almost priceless 

 value in a scientific point of view, notably in the Archaeological De- 

 partment, the last tablet and two animal pipes, for which we are again 

 indebted to the kindness of that indefatigable explorer, the Rev. J. 

 Gass. 



botany. 



Dr. C. C. Parry reports the following additions to the botanical collec- 

 tion during the past year : A large collection of plants, mainly of the 

 Eastern States, from G. W. Tryon, of Philadelphia, through Prof. D. S. 

 Sheldon, with additions of western and southern plants, making not less 

 than 1,-500 species ; a collection of Algae from the coast of Ireland, from 



