320 ROCHESTER ACADEMY OF SCIENCE. [Jan. I4, 



The following- officers of the Academy were unanimously elected 

 for the year 1902: 



President — Charles Wright Dodge. 



First Vice-President — Charles R. Sumner. 



Second Vice-President — George W. Goler. 



Secretary — Montgomery E. Leary. 



Corresponding Secretary — William D. Merrell. 



Treasurer — Joseph E. Putnam. ^ 



Librarian — William D. Merrell. 



r Herman LeRoy Fairchild, till 1905. 

 Councillors — \ John M. Davison, till 1905. 



I George H. Chadwick, till 1904, 



The paper of the evening was an address by the retiring president, 

 entitled 



HISTORY AND WORK OF THE ROCHESTER ACADEMY 1 



OF SCIENCE. ; 



By Herman Le Roy Fairchild. \ 



(Address of the retiring President, January 14, 1902.) \ 



CONTENTS. i 



Introduction, - - - - - - . - - 320 i 



Retrospect: Historical, ----- 321 



The Microscopical Society, ----- 321 i 



The early Academy of Science, ... 322 



Plan of Organization. Sections, . - - 322 



Officers of the early Academy, - - - 323 



Purpose and function, .... 324 



Methods of work. Results, - - - 325 



The present Academy, ..... 326 



Ideas and plan of reorganization, - - 326 



Work of the Academy. Results accomplished, - 327 



Meetings, ..... 327 



Papers presented, .... 327 ' \ 



Authors of papers, - - - - 328 j 



Publications, . . - - . 329 j 



Important papers. Local studies, - 330 



Exchanges, ..... 332 | 



Library, ----- 332 \ 



Collections, ..... 332 1 



Finances, . - - . . 333 | 



Sections, ..... 333 i 



Officers, ------ 334 



Prospect, --------- 335 J 



Investigational work to be done, - • - - 335 I 



Collections, ... . - 336 | 



Publications, ...... 337 



Finances, ....... 337 



Administration, ...... 338 ; 



I 

 INTRODUCTION. 



For twenty-three years this Society has quietly carried on its i 

 work in Rochester, so quietly and unostentatiously indeed that many 



