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was induced to hold its annual meeting of that year in Minne- 

 apolis, while we were in the quarters at Kelly Hall, where this 

 national association held a number of meetings during the sev- 

 eral days it was here. About 1884, the Academy was moved 

 to Center Block and occupied very comfortable apartments on 

 the second floor above .the crockery store of Mr. Foss, who was 

 successor to Harmon & Holmes. 



In the establishment of the Public Library, through the or- 

 ganization of the Library Board in 1885, and in which T was 

 most particularly concerned and had worked many years to secure 

 its organization, provisions were made as follows : 



"There is hereby created and established in and for the 

 city of Minneapolis, a board which shall be styled the 'Library 

 Board of the City of Minneapolis, ' said board shall have power 

 to establish and maintain in the city of Minneapolis, public 

 libraries and reading rooms, galleries of art and museums for 

 the use and benefit of the inhabitants of said city," etc. 



And in Section 9, "Said Library Board may enter into asso- 

 ciation with any independent society or other organization own- 

 ing libraries or museums or existing for purposes kindred to 

 those contemplated in this Act, upon such terms and conditions 

 as shall best promote the object for which said board is created." 



The library was completed in 1889, and in the construction 

 of the building, quite a large room was provided for the Acad- 

 emy of Science museum and cases, and another one for the use 

 of the Art Society. The Academy occupied this room until 

 about 1904, when its room was needed for the Atheneum col- 

 lection of art books. Then the books and specimens of the Acad- 

 emy were packed into the directors' room and they remained 

 there until, through active co-operation with the Library Board, 

 the new wing in which the Academy is now located, was built, 

 and the museum installed, where it has remained to the present 

 time. During all these years of the constant and steady growth 

 of the museum, Professor Winchell was very active and greatly 

 interested in its continued growth as a museum. It was to a con- 

 siderable extent through his interested efforts and encourage- 

 ment that the Menage expedition to the Philippines was under- 

 taken, and which brought to the Academy a magnificent collec- 

 tion of the animal life of the Philippine Islands. 



