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gress of Discovery of the Mississippi River, with special reference to 

 Minnesota and its Geography." Discussion of this very able and in- 

 teresting paper by Hall and Walker. 



The year's report of the Academy's Treasurer, Edw. C. Gale, 

 showed a decrease in the balance from $242.98 to $34.29, being due 

 to the publication of Bulletin Vol. IV, No. 2, costing about $200. 



Notice was given of a proposed change in the By-Laws, whereby 

 the meetings should be held on the first Monday of the month in- 

 stead of the first Tuesday after the first Monday. 



Moved and carried that Oestlund and Gale be a committee to 

 arrange for some disposition of the Academy's library to the Public 

 Library Board, similar to the agreement with Athaeneum, and report 

 at the next meeting. 



Committee on nominations, — Upham, Hall, and Norton, — reported 

 the following list for 1908 and they were electetd: 



President: T. B. Walker. 



Vice-President: F. W. Sardeson. 



Corresponding Secretary: O. W. Oestlund. 



Recording Secretary: H. Gale. 



Treasurer: Edw. C. Gale. 



Trustees for three years: N. H. Winchell and Edw. C. Gale. 



Adjourned at 10:30. 



H. Gale, Secretary. 



2d7th Meeting, Monday, February Zd, 1908, in the Academy's Museum 



Boom. 



President Walker presiding; 25 members and guests present. 



The paper of the evening, "Healing Forces in Nature," was read 

 by Mr. H. B. Norton, dealing with the natural forces in the mineral 

 vegetable, and animal kingdom, down to the present form in Chris- 

 tian Science, which was nothing new in essence. 



President Walker remarked on the paper, and then spoke of plans 

 for building up the Academy, and of its history and relations to the 

 Library Board. He hoped there would be a hall built in the court of 

 this building for public lectures and meetings. He also hoped that 

 before many years the Academy would have a building of its own, or 

 in conjunction with art, where books would be more incidental; so 

 rather the opposite of the present situation. 



The draft for a contract between the Academy and the Library 

 Board, similar to that with the Athenaeum, and drawn up by our 

 treasurer, Mr. Edw. C. Gale, was read and discussed. Moved that this 

 contract be received and accepted, subject to such changes as the 

 Library Board may deem necessary, but that the term of the contract 

 be for not more than three years. Carried. 



Wm. P. Johnson, 1019 W 28th St., was elected to membership on 

 the motion of Winchell and Walker. 



