400 THE AMERICAN MONTHLY [Dec. 



with a leader and progress in each department of learning is to 

 be reported by the head of each section every three months. 



The officers of the Academy shall consist of a President, Vice 

 President, Secretary, Treasurer, Librarian and a Board of Trus- 

 tees, the Board of Trustees to consist of those mentioned above 

 and two additional elected annually same as those above. 

 ' There being quite a number of fine microscopes and acces- 

 sories in the city, the section on microscopy will include 

 all the members of the old Leavenworth Microscopical Society 

 and this latter society which has met in the last several years 

 will cease to exist, either in name or act. 



A permanent library and museum quarters have been ten- 

 dered by the City Board of Education as well as a plan of meet- 

 ing both special and public for the sections and the Academy 

 as a whole, special meetings to be held in the Board of Educa- 

 tion rooms and the Academy's public meeting are to be held in 

 the Leavenworth High School Auditorium. 



Meetings of the Academy are to be held on the first and third 

 Thursdays in each month, public meetings every ninety days. 



The last meeting, which was the first regular meeting was 

 held on October 24, at which Dr. James A. Lane read a paper on 

 the biological examination of the city's water supply, illustrat- 

 ing the same with cultures of micro-organisms found therein, 

 discussions of this paper was laid over until November 7th. 



There are two reasons why I have written thus fully of our 

 organization. First to let the Journal know that the Leaven- 

 worth Academy of Science has organized and expects to do some 

 good work and second to let them know that the Leavenworth 

 County Microscopical Club or society has been dead for several 

 years and that those interested in what was the old society are 

 now in the micrscopical section of our new organization. — J. W. 

 McGiLL, M. D., Secretary. 



LETTERS TO THE EDITOR. 



Buffalo, N. Y., Nov. 11, 1895. 

 Chas. W. Smiley, Editok. 



My Dear Sir : — In reply to your excellent editorial challenge, will say 

 that you certainly have the correct remedy to tone up and restore to health 

 any and every society suffering with debility, paresis or melancholia. The 

 saccess of any society depends upon the activity of its secretary and ex ecu 



