PROCEEDINGS OF THE 

 MINNESOTA ACADEMY OF SCIENCE 



(Abstracted from the records by Secretary Harlow Gale.) 



218th Meeting, Jan. 6th, 1906, Annual Meeting in the Art Gallery of 

 Mr. T. B. Walker, 807 Hennepin Av. 



Present: President C. W. Hall, Winchell, Upham, Walker, Roe, 

 Oestlund, Sardeson, Meeds, Arndt, R. J. Mendenhall, Benner, Nathan 

 Butler, Dr. Chas. Simpson, Mrs. G. W. Tinsiey, and Gale, with five 

 lady and six men guests. 



Historical program. Retiring President Hall reviewed, from 7:45 

 to 8:15 the growth of our city during the 33 years of the Academy, of 

 Carlton, Hamline, and the State Universities, of similar Academies 

 of Science in Philadelphia, Boston, New York, and Chicago, and then 

 suggested the possibilities for the growth of our Academy in this 

 large and wealthy state. He hoped our Academy would be the center 

 for scientific research throughout the state and that thus it would 

 grow out into the life of the State. 



Moved and carried that the President appoint a nominating com- 

 mittee for the officers: Sardeson, Meeds, and Winchell being thus 

 appointed. 



A Historical Sketch of the Minnesota Academy of Science, com- 

 piled from the becks of the Secretary and the trustees and from per- 

 sonal interviews, was read by the Secretary, Harlow Gale. 

 Personal Recollections were given: 



On Geology, by N. H. Winchell. 



On the Menage Philippine Expedition, by Pres. Hall. 



On Dr. A. E. Johnson's work in Mycology, by Dr. Chas. Simpson, 

 the first secretary of the Academy. 



On the Museum, by Curator A. D. Roe. 



Report of the Treasurer, Edw. C. Gale, read by Pres. Hall, showed 

 balance of $233.41. 



Report of Corresponding Secretary Oestlund showed accessions 

 by exchanges during 1905 to be 712, total entries to date, 12,526. The 

 revised exchange list, representing 127 Academies, Societies, Libraries, 

 Museums, Universities, and Surveys, are distributed as follows: — 

 European 93, American 79, South American 9, Australian 7, Asiatic 4, 

 African 3; total 195. The great value of the Academy's exchanges, 

 many being in no other library in this part of this country, and the 

 wholly inaccessible condition of the books, were explained and em- 

 phasized. 



