Notes Oil Arrival and Nesting of Birds — Benner. 187 



On Monday, December 16th, 1889, from four until ten 

 •o'clock, the Library Board of the city of Minneapolis received the 

 people of Minneapolis and many of the leading citizens of Minne- 

 sota in the new Public Library Building. 



In this fire-proof building erected at a cost, including the 

 ground, of $334,150.65, and on this occasion formally opened for 

 the use of the citizens of the city, The Minnesota Academy of 

 Natural Sciences has been assigned rooms. On the third floor 

 the Academy has an elegant room for its meetings and spacious 

 and equally elegant rooms for the display of its collections which 

 will be daily open to the public. 



The Library Board had generously furnished sufficient cases 

 for the- display of the collections of the Academy and the secretary 

 and several members had devoted their time for many evenings 

 to cataloguing and arranging the material so that on the occasion 

 of the opening the extent and condition of the museum were very 

 fairly presented to the public. 



The rooms thus placed at the disposal of the Academy of 

 Sciences answer present needs and are a realization of the desires 

 of its members expressed in 1880, repeated in 1884, and felt in 

 every subsequent year; they enable the organization to devote its 

 energies more directly to the publication of its Bulletins and to 

 the creation of a museum of natural history and material re- 

 sources for the great Northwest. 



[Paper X] 



NOTES ON THE ARRIVAL AND NESTING OF BIRDS IN THE VICINITY 



OF MINNEAPOLIS FOR THE SPRING OF 1881. FrankUn Beuner. 



My notes for the past year were limited by the short time I 

 was able to devote to looking up the birds. I was only able to 

 make weekly trips, and, living in town, the arrival and departure 

 of the birds was not noted as quickly as they otherwise would have 

 been. My notes begin April third wjien I saw the first robin. 



