Proceedings 337 



The Amendment to tne By-Laws, making the first Monday in the 

 month the day for the regular meetings instead of the first Tuesday 

 after the first Monday, was moved and carried, having been duly pre- 

 sented at the last meeting. Voted that the Secretary get together a 

 list of the Academy's officers and members and mako out "Sections" 

 in accordance with the plan of the trustees. Adjournment at 9:50. 



H. Gale, Secretary. 

 298^71 Meeting, Monday March 2d, 1908, in the Museum Room. 



Professor Winchell pres.^fiing: 25 members and guests present. 



Discussion as to the proposed agreement with the Library Board 

 as to the Academy's library. Mr. P. H. Carlton, of the Library Board, 

 spoke of the Board's attitude of assistance and also of the uncertain 

 character of the Academy's books and the uncertain expense of prop- 

 erly binding the books. 



A similar proposition to receive, bind, and catalog and use the 

 Academy's books, the Academy to retain the ownership, was received 

 informally through Prof. Oestlund from the University Library. After 

 discussion it was moved by Prof. Wulling, seconded ,and carried, that 

 this proposition of the University Library be also considered at the 

 next meeting. 



Considerable discussion followed as to the procuring of an original 

 design for the Academy's stationary and publications through an open 

 competition from art or school students. 



Owing to the sudden illness of Mr. Horace V. Winchell, Geologist 

 of the Great Northern Railway, Mrs. Winchell read his paper on "The 

 Origin of Ore Deposits", and showed a rare collection of specimens of 

 ores and ore-bearing rocks. The Academy was greatly indebted to Mrs. 

 Winchell for her clear, interesting and intelligent presentation of this 

 original and highly valuable paper, and for her participation, like- 

 wise, in the discussion which followed. Adjournment at 10:10. 



H. Gale, Secretary. 

 299th Meeting, Monday, April Gth, 1908, in the Museum Room. 



Vice President Sardeson presiding: about 25 members and guests. 



The following memorial was offered by the Secretary: 



"In Memory, of A. D. Roe, born June -.28, 1825; died March 20, 1908. 



From his earliest young manhood our late venerable and beloved 

 curator of the Academy's museum has been a lover and student of na- 

 ture. Amid his varied studies of law, education, and theology Mr. 

 Roe has always studied the earth's history in the plants and rocks. 

 Throughout his active educational life of some thirty years as a teacher, 

 pastor and home missionary, his never failing source of bodily refresh- 

 ment and mental invigoration has been these tramps for the collec- 

 tion of his plants and minerals, with the subsequent examination 



