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teriology in the University of Buffalo, N. Y. , gave an illustrated 

 lecture entitled: 



THE ACHIEVEMENTS OF BACTERIOLOGY. 



Mr. William^ stated that discoveries made by the investigations 

 in bacteriology, during the last few years, had entirely changed the 

 treatment of tuberculosis, diphtheria and other diseases. Views of 

 the bacilli causing typhoid fever, anthrax, cholera, and other diseases 

 were shown, also methods of culture and investigation. 



The paper was discussed by the President, Professor Dodge, Mr. 

 Kuichling, and others, and a vote of thanks was tendered Dr. 

 Williams. 



January ii, 1898. 



The annual meeting of the Academy was held at the Reynolds 

 Library. President Fairchild in the chair. Ninety persons present. 



On recommendation of the Council, it was moved and carried 

 that Dr. Montgomery E. Leary be made Acting Secretary of the 

 Academy. 



Annual reports of the ofificers were given, as follows: 



Secretary's Report. 



There being no regular secretary, Miss Beckvvith reported on 

 the work of the Society as follows: 



Fifteen meetings were held during the year 1897, with an average 

 attendance of eighty-five persons. Fifteen new members were elected, 

 and one lost by death. Sixteen papers were presented before the 

 Society, classified as follows: Geography 4; Botany 3; Bacteriology 

 2; and one each in Agriculture, Anatomy, Economic Entomology, 

 Geology, Meteorology, Pathology, and Zoology. 



The report of the Corresponding Secretary, Professor Charles 

 Wright Dodge, was received and adopted. 



The Librarian, Miss Florence Beckwith, reported as follows: 



Report of the Liijrarian. 

 There were added to the library of the Academy, during the 



