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and instructive paper, said the Government was anxious to spread 

 the knowledge of its methods (this in contrast to the secrecy of the 

 professional individual forecaster) and added some details from his 

 22 years experience in the Weather Department. More discussion 

 followed, — President Walker speaking of the U. S. Bureau's method 

 having left philosophizing and practiced instead Bacon's inductive 

 method based on a large collection of facts. 



President Walker reported informally that the committee for 

 the re-incorporation of the Academy as a state institution had met 

 with such legal obstruction for such proposed legislative enactment 

 that the project had to be abandoned. He also said that, although 

 nothing definite had been done towards a permanent endowment, he 

 still hoped that the Academy would some day be in its own building 

 with an endowment. 



After a suggestion by Winchell and some discussion it was moved, 

 seconded, and carried that the Academy, through its president, vice- 

 president, and secretary, should offer an invitation to the American 

 Association for the Advancement of Science to hold in Minneapolis 

 its meeting after the next, i. e., in 1908-9. Adjournment at 10 P. M. 



H. Gale, Secretary. 

 292d Meeting, June ith, 1907, Directors' Room, Public Library. 



President Walker presiding; 16 members and guests present. 



Professor N. H. Winchell read a paper on "The Mammoth in Min- 

 nesota," illustrated by a newly found tooth, the property of our 

 member, Mr. O. O. Whited. At the conclusion President Walker 

 recalled the presence in our Museum of a large mammoth tooth, which 

 he had given the museum some years ago. 



At 8:45 Professor O. W. Oestlund spoke on "Celebrations of the 

 Linng Anniversary," calling special attention to Linne as a zoologist, 

 or indeed, as a biologist, which broad scientific characters of the 

 great man are too often lost sight of in his fame as a botanist. The 

 speaker also described his extraordinary power as a teacher and as a 

 writer of some 100 books in Latin. 



President Walker announced that, through the action of the 

 Library Board, the curator of the museum, Mr. A. D. Roe, had been 

 provided with sufficient income and an assistant, so that the museum 

 could be now kept open all day and . every day, and with free ad- 

 mission. 



Mr. Whited asked as to the age of the Esquimaux compared with 

 the Mound Builders, and was answered by Prof. Winchell that the 

 Esquimaux was here before, during, and since the Mound Builder, 

 living on the edge of the ice field. On further questions Mr. Upham 

 caller attention to Prof. Winchell's articles 30 years ago on the identity 

 of the Mound Builder and the worker of the ancient copper mines of 

 lake Superior, also to his present series of articles on "The Antiquity 

 of Man," now running in "Records of the Past." 



The President reported having written the proper officers of the 



