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standing committee on Biology and as a Trustee, his activities in 

 the Academy dwindled away. Still, in 1888 he is reported as 

 having been elected a member, his membership evidently having 

 lapsed automatically. For several years Dr. Simpson was a mem- 

 ber of the School Board of St. Anthony, prior to the union of the 

 two cities. I have not been able to learn the date of his death, 

 but it was about a year after our 33rd anniversary, which he 

 attended and where he made some remarks concerning the early 

 days of the Academy and especially concerning the assiduous 

 labor of Dr. Johnson on the mycological flora. 



Samuel C. Gale was our first vice-president, and was again 

 vice-president in 1877 and 1878. In February, 1883, he was ap- 

 pointed one of a committee (of which Prof. J. A. Dodge was 

 chairman ) to investigate the question of pure water supply for 

 Minneapolis, and in 1884 he was one of a committee (of which 

 President A. F. Elliott was chairman) who were instructed to 

 confer with the Trustees of the Athenaeum, with a view to the 

 erection of a joint building for the accommodation of the Acad- 

 emy, the Athenaeum and the Society of Fine Arts. 



Mr. Gale, who is still with us, has been always among the 

 prominent and influential as well as enterprising citizens of Min- 

 neapolis. He has been a leader in some of the enterprises for 

 which the city of Minneapolis has become celebrated. Coming 

 to the city in 1857, he was soon extensively interested in real 

 estate and insurance and consequently was in touch with all the 

 commercial, social and educational movements that have marked 

 the history of the city during the last fifty years. For many 

 years connected with the Academy, he was also a member of the 

 Library Board and is familiar with the discussions that have 

 arisen as to the relations of the Academy to the Public Library. 

 Mr. Gale once expressed to the writer his admiration of the 

 sturdy virility manifested by the Academy. His aid to the Acad- 

 emy has not been as a participant in its programs, but as an in- 

 fluential friend and adviser. Now in his 87th year, he has the 

 sweet satisfaction of looking back on a long life well spent in 

 earnest usefulness, cheered by a sense of the high regard of his 

 fellow citizens. 



Dr. William H. Leonard, one of the first Board of Trustees 

 in 1873, settled in Minneapolis in 1855, having graduated at Yale 



