'^26 Proceedings 



Dr. P. A. Aurness, Professor Dr. T. G. Lee, Dr. E. J. Brown, and Mr. 

 S. Lemere. Done. Adjournment at 10:45. 



HARLOW GALE, Secretary. 

 283(Z Meeting, June Bth, 1906, Directors' Room, Puhlic Library. 



President Walker in the chair: about 15 members and guests 

 present. 



Mr. Henry W. Eustis exhibited his collection of some 3000 but- 

 terflies and moths, described his own interest and methods in collect- 

 ing them, gave a considerable description of the specimens, and showed 

 some of their evolutionary bearings. 



Moved by Arndt that Mr. Eustis be given the Academy's thanks 

 for his very interesting lecture and the exhibition of his collection, 

 and urged him to publish a list of the Lepidoptera of Minnesota. 

 Seconded by Winchell and carried. Adjourned at 9:40. 



HARLOW GALE, Secretary. 



2Sith Meeting, Tuesday, Oct. 2d, 1906, in the Academy's new Museum 



Boom. 



(In the second floor of the newly finished south wing of the Public 

 Library Building.) 



Vice President Winchell in the chair: 17 members and guests 

 present. 



After reading the minutes, as usual, the Secretary reported on 

 the acquisition, during the past summer, of the collection of but- 

 terflies and moths, collected by Henry W. Eustis, by the raising of 

 nearly $500.00 in subscriptions from friends of the Academy and of 

 Mr. Eustis. The Secretary was asked to make arrangements for the 

 formal presentation of the Eustis collection, which is now on exhibi- 

 tion near the door of the museum, in the name of the subscribers. 



Mr. Roe, curator of the museum, then described the rehabilitation 

 of the museum during the summer, after its being moved out of the 

 way in the halls and the directors' room, from its former place in the 

 corresponding room in the old wing (now used for the Art Book 

 room), for the last two years. The expense of finishing this second 

 floor of the new wing, as well as of the Art Gallery on the floor above, 

 had been advanced to the Library Board by President T. B. Walker. 

 Nearly $500.00 had been spent in cleaning and reinstalling the collec- 

 tions, $265 being for the renovation of the cases, nearly every one of 

 which was somewhat broken, and putting new and heavy castors under 

 them, $200.00 being for the services of Mr. Roe and his assistants in 

 cleaning and arranging the collections in the cases. Little serious 

 damage had, fortunately, taken place, although some specimens had 

 disappeared. 



Thus, after five weeks' work, the museum had been opened to 



