234 Proceedings 



The following officers were then elected: 



President, ------- C W. Hall. 



Vice President, - - - - - O. W; Oestlund. 



Recording Secretary, - - - F. G. Warvelle. 



Corresponding Secretary, - - C. P. Berkey. 



Treasurer, - - - - - - - E. C. Gale. 



^' , . (Dr. T. S. Roberts. 



Irustees for three years, - -\^ ,,. ^ . , 



[O. W. Oestlund. 



Dr. Berkey was instructed to correspond with the officers 

 of the East Side Library in regard to obtaining a permanent 

 home for the Academy library. 



252d Meeting, February 5, 1901. 



Forty-five members and visitors present. 



President Hall in the chair. 



Harlow Gale Avas elected to membership. 



The Treasurer's report showed receipts of $592.50 ; ex- 

 penses $291.61; balance in treasury $296.99. 



The By-Laws were amended so that Sec. H, Art. 2 shall 

 read: "The sections shall cover the following sciences : As- 

 tronomy and Mathem.atics, Botany, Chemistry, Geology, Min- 

 eralogy, Physics, Zoology." 



Heads of sections were advised to subdivide their sections 

 dependent upon the amount of work being carried on by their 

 associates. 



Program : 



The Retreat of the Ice Margin across Minnesota, by 

 Professor N. H. Winchell. 



Giant Kettles in the Interstate Park, Taylor's Falls, by 

 Warren Upham. (Abstracts of these papers appeared in 

 Science, for March 29, 1901, Vol. xiii, N. S. p. 509). 



253d Meeting, April 12, 1901. 



Fifty members and visitors present. 



E. C. Gale was elected trustee for the unexpired term of 

 C. W. Hall. 



F. K. Butters read a paper describing some of the lower 

 forms of plant life emphasizing particularly the fungi and 

 their allies. Illustrated. 



